Learn to cook, improve your culinary skills, or plan a fantastic private event with Chef Joel

Chef Joel offers a wide range of fantastic special events for both personal and professional occasions.  Our custom private culinary events bring people together over delicious food.  Whether your goal is to celebrate a family occasion, entertain VIP clients, impress your friends & neighbors, create a more cohesive corporate team, or just enjoy learning how to cook a delicious bespoke meal, 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, including Girl Scout Badge Workshops
  

Chef Joel enjoys sharing his culinary expertise through presentations/public speaking and media appearances and has extensive experience in this area.  He has made regular TV appearances on Madison’s Channel 27 “Wake Up Wisconsin” as well as on WISC-TV and stations in the DC area.  He was highlighted last year in a Channel 3000 feature on his “Slava Ukraini!” Fundraising Dinner for World Central Kitchen’s Chefs for Ukraine Initiative.

This year, he served as the Culinary Director for an exciting new television program with PBS Chef Christy Rost.  The show, “At Home with Christy Rost,” was filmed in Chef Christy’s beautiful kitchen in her historic Breckenridge home “Swans Nest” and is currently available on several streaming services.  You can see some pictures of the filming of Season 1 and of Chef Joel hard at work here.  Season 2 was filmed in August and is now available to stream, too!

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 11/22/2023.  You can find the audio of that show 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.