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Kitchen Basics – Beginner’s Series – Essential Kitchen Techniques with Chef Wendi James 1
Kitchen Basics – Beginner’s Series – Essential Kitchen Techniques with Chef Wendi James 2
Kitchen Basics – Beginner’s Series – Essential Kitchen Techniques with Chef Wendi James 3
Cooking Class

Kitchen Basics – Beginner’s Series – Essential Kitchen Techniques with Chef Wendi James

September 28 at 6pm - October 26

At Hill Center DC

Capitol Hill, Washington

🍫Dessert every class: brownies, cookies, chocolate pudding
🔪All levels welcome, total beginners to seasoned cooks
🍽️Class ends with a full meal you cooked yourself

Learn to cook like you mean it. Chef Wendi James, Le Cordon Bleu-trained with stints at Daniel and Charlie Trotter's, leads four weeks of hands-on basics, from knife skills to Pommes Frites, and you eat every dish you make.

Hands-On Cooking
Le Cordon Bleu Chef
Four-Week Series
Beginner Friendly

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