*Culinary Experiences in Iowa (14 hours)
| Dates: | September 26, 2025 |
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| Meets: | F from 7:00 AM to 9:00 PM |
| Location: | MCC Sarpy Center Parking Lot |
| Cost: | $169.00 |
There are still openings remaining at this time.
Advance your culinary experiences by taking a journey to explore made-from-scratch food and horticulture production methods. Receive a delightful bistro luncheon at the Iowa Culinary Institute in Ankeny produced by culinary arts students. Receive a grand tour of their kitchen after your meal. Enjoy a visit to the birthplace farm of Henry A. Wallace in Orient, IA, the restored farm house with gift shop, gathering barn, orchard, produce gardens, and sculpture walking path with pond. Afterwards, tour the beautiful World Food Prize Hall of Laureates which recognize the importance of food sustainability. The building features magnificent interior décor and stunning artwork. Also, there’s a special stop at the Des Moines’ Wallace House for an afternoon dessert before wine sampling at Jasper Winery. Wallace House for an afternoon dessert before wine sampling at Jasper Winery. Please register early to secure your place as space is limited. The cost paid to MCC includes bus transportation, your special dining experience (including tax and gratuity), dessert at the Wallace House, wine sampling at Jasper Winery, and other fee stops. Bring money, including cash, for shopping and other meals. Our deluxe motor coach departs promptly at 7:00 a.m. from Sarpy Center; park and meet the bus in the northeast parking lot. Return is approximately 9:00 p.m. Sorry, no discount. Refunds will not be allowed within 14 days of the trip. Trip leader is Kevin Kowskie.
| Fee: | $169.00 |
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| Hours: | 14.00 |
| CEUs: | 1.40 |
MCC Sarpy Center Parking Lot
Kevin Kowskie
Kevin Kowskie is a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is passionate about travel and art. His artwork has been displayed at the College of St. Mary’s, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the Durham Museum and has been included in a group show at the Joslyn Art Museum. Kowskie’s love for foreign travel and cultural enrichment goes back as far as he can remember. While traveling with his family to Rocky Mountain National Park as a child, he developed a keen desire to expand his journeys to distant lands, and the rest was history. After traveling through much of the United States as he got older, this ambition drew him to expand his travels on an international scale—discovering destinations in Canada, Mexico and a dozen European nations. In his early thirties, Kevin and a friend devoted two weeks every year to backpacking through Europe and visiting different nations and destinations via train. He loves encountering new cultures and meeting people from diverse backgrounds. After someone suggested to him that Omaha would appreciate seminars on European travel, Kowskie followed his passion to become a noncredit instructor on the subject for MCC. Planning, organizing and leading group tours are part of his favorite pastimes. Kowskie is currently a trip leader and coordinator for MCC’s Traveling Classrooms, sharing his experience and knowledge as part of the motivated Continuing Education staff.powered by ACEweb from ACEware Systems