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Kitchen Alchemy: A Hands-on Sushi Class and Demonstration with Chef Jordan Jones
Wild Indigo Forest Farm × Let’s Roll Sushi · December 4
Kitchen Alchemy
A Hands-on Sushi Class and Demonstration
with Chef Jordan Jones
An intimate, hands-on sushi cooking experience with Chef Jordan Dakota Jones. You are not sitting in the back of a crowded cooking school watching someone else make dinner. You are rolling, tasting, asking questions, changing ingredients when you need to, and learning with the chef right there beside you.
This is exactly what you’re getting
Small group. Hands on. Chef at arm’s reach.
This is both a demonstration and a true hands-on cooking class, intentionally capped at only 11 guests. Instead of trying to flag down an instructor across a packed room, you will be able to ask Jordan questions as you work, get direct feedback on technique, troubleshoot your roll, learn substitutions, and actually understand what is happening beneath your hands.
Real chef access
Ask questions in the moment and get individual feedback rather than waiting your turn in a large classroom.
Built to adapt
Ingredient substitutions and many allergy-conscious or vegan adjustments can be planned ahead so more people can fully participate.
6:00 PM · arrive, sip, settle in
Mocktail Happy Hour comes first.
Every guest will receive a welcome mocktail libation made with Belli Pop ↗, a Louisville-area natural vegan soda, while everyone arrives, meets Jordan, gets cozy, and settles into the kitchen before we begin rolling at 7:00 PM.
Choose your route
Three ticket experiences. One tiny cooking school.
Cooked Sushi Experience
California Roll + Crunch Munch + JJ Roll.
JJ Roll: choose Wagyu or Morel Mushroom.
Adult ticket · $111
Raw Sushi Experience
California Roll + Tsunami Roll + JJ Roll.
JJ Roll: choose Wagyu or Morel Mushroom.
Adult ticket · $111
Kids Sushi Experience
California Roll + Crunch Munch.
A more approachable hands-on route for younger sushi makers.
Kids ticket · $44
What you’ll make
The roll call.
California Roll
Cucumber · avocado · crab preparation finalized with Jordan.
Crunch Munch · Cooked
Spicy crab · cucumber · butterfly shrimp on top · eel sauce · spicy mayo · tempura flakes.
Tsunami Roll · Raw
Avocado · spicy crab · tuna · chives · sriracha · sesame oil · chili oil · chili powder · eel sauce.
JJ Roll · Signature
Avocado with your choice of seared hibachi-style Wagyu or morel mushroom, finished with eel sauce · wasabi mayo · yuzu sauce · tempura flakes, with soy sauce or coconut aminos available.
Make your table a little bigger
Optional add-ons.
Edamame
$10
Full Bowl Ginger Salad
$7
Nigiri Add-On
White tuna or yellowfin tuna · mix + match
$10
Salmon Belly
$6
Meet your chef
Jordan Dakota Jones
Jordan brings the craft of Japanese cuisine directly to people, whether that means setting up in a home kitchen for an intimate dinner, rolling sushi at an event, or teaching guests how to make it themselves.
15 years of sushi
Jordan has spent roughly 15 years working with sushi and building his craft through restaurant work, culinary competition, travel, and a constant curiosity about technique. His food story began young, with early restaurant experience and state-level culinary recognition through competition and SkillsUSA.
Food life beyond the roll
He loves tropical travel, trying new restaurants, learning new cooking methods, and exploring food with his wife and their young son, Jasper. When the garden is in season, he gardens, cans, and preserves too, folding those seasonal skills into classes whenever they fit.
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Your cooking school for the night
Welcome to Knob N’ Wood at Wild Indigo.
For one winter evening, our artisan-built retreat center becomes your tiny sushi school. Knob N’ Wood is a handmade strawbale-and-cob home with timber framing, reclaimed and locally meaningful wood, stained glass, earthen walls, and a wood-fired masonry heater. The fire will be going while we cook.
A kitchen built for gathering
Our fully equipped kitchen stays open to the dining room and wider gathering space, so the person teaching is never tucked away from everyone else. It was built for cooking, tasting, teaching, talking, laughing, and sitting down together with what everyone’s hands helped make.
An Earth-built retreat center
Cob + strawbale walls, visible timber framing, passive-solar design, handmade finishes, reclaimed wood, stained glass, and masonry heat give the room its warmth. The craft is not decoration applied to the building. The craft is the building.
Tell us before you arrive
Allergies + substitutions are part of the conversation.
Because this is a small group, we have room to actually talk through substitutions rather than hand you a generic backup plate. Vegan adjustments and many allergy-conscious substitutions can be planned in advance. Please share dietary needs when booking so Jordan and Wild Indigo can confirm the safest and best route for your ingredients.
Raw seafood notice
Some menu options include raw or undercooked seafood. Consuming raw or undercooked seafood may increase your risk of foodborne illness. Menu items may also include fish, shellfish, soy, sesame, egg, and gluten-containing ingredients.
Give yourself time to arrive
Arrival + parking
Please use the full one-hour arrival window beginning at 6:00 PM. Parking is spread across several areas of the property, and we’ll send the event-specific parking plan before the gathering so you know exactly where to go before you arrive.
Parking across the property
- Knob N’ Wood Retreat Center lot: about 6–7 vehicles. These closest spaces are specifically reserved for guests who need additional mobility support.
- Upper Ridge Sun Lot: about 4–5 vehicles. It is a two-minute-or-shorter walk down the knob. Shuttle service begins once this lot is full.
- Forest Lot: about 5 vehicles. It is also a two-minute-or-shorter walk down the knob, with shuttle pickup available once shuttle service begins.
- Knobstone Trailhead Overflow: up to about 25 vehicles. This is the primary overflow area and the main focus of our shuttle service once the Upper Ridge Sun Lot is full. Open the overflow map ↗
Watch for event parking signs before you pull into the Wild Indigo driveway. If the closest area is full, signs will direct you clearly to the Upper Ridge Lot, Forest Lot, or Knobstone Trailhead Overflow.
Mobility support + shuttle help
The parking area directly beside Knob N’ Wood Retreat Center is intentionally held for guests who need the closest, simplest arrival route. If you need additional mobility support, please tell us ahead of time so we can reserve the right space and help plan your arrival.
Shuttle service begins once the Upper Ridge Sun Lot is full. From that point, the shuttle will run approximately every 10 minutes throughout the remainder of the arrival hour.
Please plan to be completely parked, walked or shuttled in, and settled before class begins at 7:00 PM.
December 4
Arrival + mocktail happy hour: 6:00 PM
Hands-on sushi class: 7:00 PM
Wild Indigo Forest Farm · Pekin, Indiana
Roll with us
Eleven seats. That’s the whole room.
Questions before booking? Reach out. We would rather help you plan the right roll than make you guess.
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