Next on the list is bringing in local chefs and farmers. That includes a California chef who will provide a class on Mexican cuisine, a French chef from Houston and another from New Orleans. Kumpe teaches most of the classes, but she said several of her chef friends have agreed to teach a class when they make the trip to Kansas to visit her. The business already has hosted sold-out classes on scones, spaghetti, biscuits, paella, sushi and several other topics. Kumpe is using the existing commercial kitchen and diner-style counter space to host small classes of approximately a dozen people who want to learn a variety of cooking styles or techniques. “I decided if I was going to work again, it should be doing what I love,” she said.Ĭookshop on 8th opened a few weeks ago in the building at Eighth and New Hampshire streets that previously housed a branch of Bank Midwest and a Sandbar Sub shop several years ago. The second thing, after she and her husband relocated to a rural property near Oskaloosa, was the idea of a cooking school. First was Kansas, after a changing California no longer looked like the dreamland of years ago. So, when retirement came - a few years earlier than expected because of the pandemic - a couple of things came to mind. But her favorite job was a three-year stint at a cooking school in Sacramento. That led to a 17-year career cooking in San Francisco, including at her own French-inspired restaurant, Tisane. “He knew what he was doing.”Īnd when the Campus Hideaway closed, Kumpe knew what she was doing too: heading to California. “We learned all the mother sauces,” Kumpe said, referring to classics like tomato, Hollandaise and béchamel. The concept didn’t last, but the early lessons the chef gave Kumpe and her fellow employees did. He had to keep the pizza because it was the business’s best seller, but he really wanted to do upscale dining at the location, thus the odd menu fusion. A new owner who was a classically trained French chef bought the popular student hangout. It was the old Campus Hideaway just off 11th and Massachusetts streets. But Kumpe indeed worked at a Lawrence restaurant decades ago that had such a menu. A confused Italian and an insulted Diane are just two.Ī new Lawrence cooking school, though, I would not have guessed.īut that combination is part of Carolyn Kumpe’s story and her new Lawrence business, Cookshop on 8th, which teaches French, Italian, German and a host of other cooking styles to small-group classes.ĭon’t look for a combination pizza and Steak Diane class anytime soon. I can envision that a menu that includes pizza by the slice and Steak Diane would lead to several things. Carolyn Kumpe, owner of Cookshop on 8th, is pictured at the new cooking school's downtown location at 745 New Hampshire St.
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