Marcel's Featured in ABC7 Food Segment

The downtown Glen Ellyn culinary store was the focus of a feature on cooking classes for children.

Local cooking store Marcel’s Culinary Experience was featured Wednesday in an ABC7 food segment. The segment, which aired during the 11 a.m. newscast, featured the station’s food reporter Steve Dolinsky as he learned about Marcel’s cooking classes for kids. Marcel’s regularly offers classes for kids on the weekend and during breaks. The next children’s cooking class will be offered on Feb. 9.  In the upcoming program, children will have the opportunity to enjoy a class on Valentine’s Day sweets, which will include making a snack mix, meatballs, garlic bread and cupcakes among some of the menu items.  Have you or your children taken a class at Marcel’s? Share your thoughts about the classes or the store in comments. And, rate the Marcel's …

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Frugal Family Finds: The "Around Town" Edition

Get your new boots on and snag a snazzy coat to wander the streets of Glen Ellyn and Wheaton to find this week's deals around town on cooking accoutrements, sushi, bikes, baby boutiques, hardware and more.

1. Anthropologie—Oakbrook, Geneva and online The Deal: If the only thing your coat and boots are made for is taking out the trash, then you might want to twalk yourself over to your nearest Anthropologie for 30 percent off all full-price outerwear and boots through Oct. 9. Offer Good: Through Oct. 9 2. Marcel’s—Glen Ellyn The Deal: Foodies, cooks, and eaters can now unite and congregate in Glen Ellyn. To celebrate their Grand Opening, Marcel’s Culinary Experience, a gourmet retailer and cooking school, is offering gourmet food tastings, product demonstrations and gift basket raffles in scheduled festivities from 10am to 6pm on October 8th. Designed as a place to “cook, create, and celebrate,” the Marcel’s event will also include an …

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Embarking on a Culinary Experience

A Glen Ellyn resident opens the doors to a new culinary retail store and cooking school.

To formulate her new business, Jill Foucre mixed in her family heritage, a love of cooking from her late grandfather and her business skills to concoct a store to attract food lovers from throughout the area. Last week, curious Glen Ellyn downtown strollers peered through large windows to see Foucre and her staff organize cookware, fine linens and other items on shelves as they prepared for today's (Monday, Sept. 26) soft, unofficial opening of Marcel’s Culinary Experience, 490 N. Main St., Glen Ellyn. The store will open at 10 a.m. A grand opening is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 8. The retail store offers fine cookware, specialty foods and tableware, and an assortment of day and evening cooking classes offered in a state-of-the-…

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