Learn to cook, improve your culinary skills, or plan a fantastic private event with Chef Joel
We offer classes and private events for all levels of experience, expertise and interest
HEALTH & SAFETY / FOOD SAFETY / SANITATION
Chef Joel takes health & safety, food safety and sanitation very seriously. Students must comply with disease prevention requirements and are strongly encouraged to ensure they are fully vaccinated and boostered for Covid-19. Chef Joel discusses food safety and carefully monitors sanitation/classroom hygiene constantly to ensure that not only is all food produced in class safe to eat, but also to prevent the spread of infection. We have always taken food safety very seriously and will continue to monitor classes even more closely.
Chef Joel offers a wide range of special events for both personal and professional occasions. Our custom private cooking events bring people together over delicious food. Whether your goal is to celebrate a family occasion, entertain VIP clients, or create a more cohesive corporate team, we offer fun, educational, and diverse opportunities to do this in creative, memorable ways. Hemmachef / Chef Joel Olson can provide on-site and off-site private event services for:
- Corporate Culinary Events
- Private Culinary Events
- Presentations
- Children’s Cooking Parties
- Other Children’s Culinary Events
Chef Joel enjoys sharing his culinary expertise through presentations/public speaking and media appearances and has lots of experience in this area. He has made regular TV appearances on Madison’s Ch 27 “Wake Up Wisconsin” as well as on WISC-TV and stations in the DC area. He was highlighted last year in a Chanel 3000 feature on his “Slava Ukraini!” Fundraising Dinner for World Central Kitchen’s Chefs for Ukraine Initiative.
This year, he is excited to have served as the Culinary Director for a new television program with PBS Chef Christy Rost. The series, “At Home with Christy Rost,” was filmed in Chef Christy’s beautiful kitchen in her historic Breckenridge home during late February 2023, and will be available on several streaming services in March, 2023. You can see some pictures of the filming and of Chef Joel hard at work here.
Chef Joel also enjoys radio appearances, especially on WPR’s Larry Meiller Show, discussing his love of cooking fish and wild game. His last appearance was on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. You can find the audio thru the Larry Meiller Show links.
The WI State Journal has featured Chef Joel’s epic culinary events, including his annual Wild Game Feed, combining his love of hunting & fishing with his classical culinary training in gourmet fish & game dishes. The Isthmus and Madison Magazine have featured Chef Joel’s classes: “Bourbon & Beef” and sumptuous wine dinners. Chef Joel can present information about a wide variety of culinary topics to almost any audience.
We offer cooking classes for all levels of expertise, ability and interest!
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