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Demonstration Cooking: Umami

  • All levels
  • 18 and older
  • $60
  • 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
  • 90 minutes

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  • $60
  • Regenstein Learning Campus @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL 60022
  • 90 minutes
  • Venue: ITW Kitchen, Learning Center
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Class Description

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What you'll learn in this culinary class:

Explore bold ingredients that add umami, the savory fifth taste, to your meals.

In this cooking class, learn recipes and techniques to prepare:
  • Spinach salad with warm bacon mushroom dressing
  • Flank steak with bloody mary relish
  • Cornbread panzanella with squash
  • Miso caramel sauce, a portion of which you will take home.

Refund Policy

Refund requests must be submitted to [email protected] 2 business days prior to the program’s start date and time. The registration fee will be refunded less a 15% processing charge. A refund is issued in the form of a credit on file (to be used for future programs).

Refund requests submitted less than 48 hours prior to a program start date are non-transferable and are not eligible for a refund.

Fees are nonrefundable and nontransferable on and after the program’s start date. We cannot refund fees requested on or after the start date of a program or for sessions missed due to student illness or other personal situations.

Registration fees for courses grouped and priced as a series will be considered one program and subject to all of the above guidelines. A refund request must be received prior to the start date of the series' first class session and will subsequently cancel your registration in every session of the series.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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Classrooms 1 – 13 are located in the Learning Center on the Regenstein Learning Campus. Park in lot six and follow the walking path along the Robert R. McCormick Foundation Plaza and entry drive. (a five-minute walk from the parking lot).

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