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Cookshop on 8th is the brainchild of Chef Carolyn. She spent 37 years in professional kitchens of San Francisco, Langue d’Oc region of France, Sonoma, and the Gold Country of Northern California. Carolyn was voted “Best Foodie to Learn How to Cook From” by Sacramento Magazine when she was the Executive Director of East Bay Restaurant Supply’s Culinary Center, where she managed the cooking class program. She owned the award-winning Charlotte’s Bake Shoppe in El Dorado, Ca., which featured wood-fired, artisanal cooking and baking. She was executive chef at Mighty Tavern and Renwood Winery. She owned and operated Vendage & Co. Catering serving the 140 wineries in Amador and El Dorado Counties. Let’s talk about food and wine pairing experience. Carolyn is also a recipe developer and has received numerous awards for her prize winning recipes. She recently returned to Kansas to be close to family and her alma mater, KU. Carolyn got her culinary start at the Casbah Deli in Lawrence! It is now called the Casbah Burger Stand. She is a long time member of Slow Food & Les Dames d’Escoffier. Carolyn is passionate about cooking and loves to share her knowledge, recipes and tips. She looks forward to cooking with you. 


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Lisa Sharpe Elles is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Chemistry Department at the University of Kansas. Her love of chemistry started as a young 4-H kid learning how to cook, bake, and preserve foods for her fair projects. As much as possible, she spent time trying new recipes and wondering about why certain ingredients are important. In chemistry classes she began to learn and see new connections to cooking that gave her the courage to experiment even further in the kitchen. She has learned a lot through her experiences and research and has found that sharing this knowledge with others is one of her favorite things to do. She will teach you about the four food molecules and how they are involved in some of your favorite foods such as ice cream, pasta, pizza, and cheese. By knowing a little chemistry about these foods, you can have success in the kitchen with recipes you may have never tried before. Lisa previously taught culinary classes at The Culinary Center of Kansas City. We welcome her to Cookshop on 8th. The fire extinguishers are fully charged!


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Executive Chef Stephanie Lamour is currently the Program Director for the venerable Culinary Institute Lenotre in Houston, Texas. She is French and had extensive culinary training there. Let’s talk working in a Michelin star restaurant! She was a favorited culinary instructor for the Art Institute in Sacramento, California for 8 years. Her classes are educational, fun and exciting. She is also an instructor at Cozymeal, one of our culinary partners. Chef Stephanie, a long-time, chef friend, will pop into Lawrence for classes occasionally. She loved the Lawrence vibe and can’t wait to return.

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Chef D is currently a culinary expert for Williams Sonoma in Monterey, California. Her specialties are food and wine pairing, handcrafted pizzas, pastas, preserves, brunch and more! She is a Francophile and enophile, so expect some French inspired delicacies coming from the kitchen and some incredible wine pairings when she is visiting us in Lawrence. Chef D has vast wine experience. She was a Wine Club Ambassador for Chateau Montelena, Calistoga, California. She was the programs director for Women for WineSense Board and was a graduate of Wine Boot Camp, Napa and Sonoma, Ca. She worked for Treasury Wine Estates, VML winery and DTC Wine Workshops. She owned a catering, food and wine experience and event company, Gastronofique. She first started teaching cooking classes at The Viking Store and then taught at East Bay Restaurant Supply in Sacramento. She and I catered many winery events, plus high-end and celebratory dinners together. You could find us anywhere in the fields of the vineyards cooking over live fire, entertaining fancy soirees in million-dollar mansions or throwing down a rustic, country shindig in a turkey barn. Chef D’s passion for cooking and fine wine is contagious. She would love to share it with you.

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Chef Cynthia Tiscareno Childers was born a natural cook. Few are lucky this way. Her father, an immigrant from Mexico, was a magician in the kitchen. Cynthia inherited his gift and attentively learned the family’s delicious and authentic recipes. Her father gifted her his heirloom copper pot to her to cook carnitas traditionally over a wood fire. Cynthia cooks possibly the best carnitas you have ever tasted. For me they are. Let’s pray she can get that pot through TSA. Cynthia’s cooking is legendary in the foothills of Northern California where we first met. Her tamales are among some of the best that I have ever tasted. Her techniques helped me up my tamale game. My husband told me he almost left me for her frijoles. Fortunately, the beautiful Cynthia, was happily married, and graciously taught me how to cook frijoles on her level. Cynthia and her lovely daughter, Sharly, who was chef at Renwood Winery, catered many events. Cynthia was my Co-Chef at Vendage & Co. catering where we fed up to 3,000 at the Amador 4 Fires for 4 years and were always voted in the top 2 food booths amongst many. She and I catered so many winery functions and weddings together from Lake Tahoe to Sonoma it’s dizzying for me to remember. Cynthia was my right hand. She’s smart, fun, quick to solve problems and gets the job done naturally in the kitchen. By choice she prefers to eat vegetarian. Book the ultimate vegetarian Mexican and non-vegetarian Mexican classes whenever my Latina bestie is in town.

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Joan Lapuyade has been engaged in the food industry for several decades. She hails from the Bay Area, gaining experience and knowledge from the Royals: Alice Waters, (Chez Panisse) Kelsie Kerr, (Standard Fare), David Tanis, (Lulus), Carolyn Kumpe, Mighty Tavern. Joan has also facilitated the opening of many restaurants, owned several of her own, consulted with William Sonoma, catered weddings and private and public events. Joan is a natural born educator-her passion and knowledge about cooking will inspire you and her organizational skills with have you working more efficiently in your kitchen. She has a JUST DO IT and HAVE FUN attitude. Joan has an impeccable palate and artistic eye for plating design. Come join us for some educational and entertaining fun in the COOKshop!