Our Fresh Chefs

All Fresh Chef Experience Chefs are college-level culinary school graduates and seasoned professionals. Our Chef Instructors bring diverse expertise, including college-level teaching, restaurant experience, and food research and development. We teach the latest techniques, from basic to advanced skills, catering to all age groups. Whether you and your guests are beginners eager to learn new skills or sophisticated foodies who love to cook, our Fresh Chefs are ready to guide you through a fun and educational culinary journey, combining fresh ideas with delicious food and plenty of enjoyment!

Chef Kathy Douglas, Owner & Executive Chef

Culinary School Graduate – Sullivan University​

Kathy Douglas is a professionally trained chef and serial entrepreneur who graduated Summa Cum Laude from Sullivan University’s Culinary Arts Hospitality Studies program. With a passion for food innovation, she founded Fresh Food Ideas, a company dedicated to offering cutting-edge recipe creation, food ideas, and research for food-related product development.

Kathy currently serves as the Chef-lead for Research and Innovation in the new Small Appliance Division at GE Appliances. Under her leadership at Fresh Food Ideas, she also established Fresh Chef Experience, a platform designed to create fun and educational cooking experiences that revive the joy of home cooking and emphasize the use of fresh, raw ingredients.

Chef Kathy’s teaching extends beyond her professional ventures. In Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky, she instructs at Williams-Sonoma retail stores and volunteers her expertise in multiple community cooking classes, catering to a wide range of ages from elementary students to college attendees. Her contributions include teaching the Teens Cooking Matters/No Kid Hungry program for Dare to Care Food Bank, the Farm to Fork Classes for elementary schools with the Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm, and a college course for the “Eat 2B Well” Culinary Medicine Program at the University of Louisville.

Beyond the classroom, Chef Kathy is a familiar face on various cooking stages, including the Home, Garden & Remodeling Show and the Kentucky State Fair. She has also served as a culinary judge for the ProStart Kentucky state-wide high school program, demonstrating her commitment to nurturing the next generation of culinary talent.