Mobile Cooking Classes And Plated Multi-Course Meals
Throughout the Chicagoland Area in your home
About Olivia's Traveling Kitchen
Multi-Course Plated meals
Multi-Course Plated meals
Book multi-course plated dinners for intimate gatherings of 6 to 12 guests. Each menu is customised, from a welcoming charcuterie experience through 3 to 5 beautifully plated courses, with wine and cocktail suggestions available. Full clean-up is included, so you can stay present with your guests from start to finish. Ideal for couples'
Book multi-course plated dinners for intimate gatherings of 6 to 12 guests. Each menu is customised, from a welcoming charcuterie experience through 3 to 5 beautifully plated courses, with wine and cocktail suggestions available. Full clean-up is included, so you can stay present with your guests from start to finish. Ideal for couples' nights, game nights, birthdays, showers, girls' nights, kids' birthdays, family gatherings, and celebrations worth remembering.
Cooking Classes
Multi-Course Plated meals
Cooking classes held in your home, led by a professional chef instructor. Each session is hands-on from the start — you'll work alongside the chef rather than watch from the sidelines, building skills.
Whether you're picking up a knife for the first time or looking to sharpen your techniques, the class is tailored to where you are.
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Cooking classes held in your home, led by a professional chef instructor. Each session is hands-on from the start — you'll work alongside the chef rather than watch from the sidelines, building skills.
Whether you're picking up a knife for the first time or looking to sharpen your techniques, the class is tailored to where you are.
By the end of each session you'll know why every step matters, and gained the kind of kitchen instinct that only comes from doing it yourself — in a familiar space, at a relaxed pace, with expert guidance the whole way through.
About Me
About Me
I am a veteran educator with over 25 years at the college and high school levels having taught advanced Culinary Arts for the last 6 years. I earned my Associate of Arts in Culinary Arts from Joliet Junior College, hours logged alongside master chefs and have spent years the last six years catering real events with students— food truck p
I am a veteran educator with over 25 years at the college and high school levels having taught advanced Culinary Arts for the last 6 years. I earned my Associate of Arts in Culinary Arts from Joliet Junior College, hours logged alongside master chefs and have spent years the last six years catering real events with students— food truck pop-ups, banquets, open houses, take-and-bake fundraisers — learning what it actually takes to get scratch-made food onto a plate, on time, for a crowd.
I believe in food made the long way — from scratch, by hand, with nothing skipped. Sourdough leavened over days, not hours. Whole cuts of meat broken down and butchered. Pastry laminated fold by fold until it's right. As a former Culinary Arts Instructor I built a program around exactly that philosophy, growing it from eight students into a full kitchen turning out multi-course plated dinners, Small Bite Nights, and whole-animal fabrication work — the kind of from-scratch cooking most people only read about
Now I am bringing that same from-scratch approach into your home kitchen — for small groups who want to learn the techniques themselves, and for dinner parties where every course is made, not assembled.