Chef Doug Yeomans, an Elgin Community College culinary arts grad whose career has included preparing meals for President Barack Obama and celebrities at the Kentucky Derby, will be returning to his alma mater this month to share some of the tricks of the trade with ECC students.

The visiting chef will not only be speaking and working with students, he’ll be helping them prepare a four-course meal Thursday, Oct. 30, that will be served that night at the school’s Spartan Terrace Restaurant.

Yeomans found his interest in cooking when he was in second grade, he said, and that ultimately led to a 25-year-plus, multifaceted career that’s included working at or consulting for a variety of restaurants, overseeing suites at Arlington International and Churchill Downs racetracks, and managing Amer

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