Chef Matt Chatfield, Part Two: No wimpy bacon and spiced strawberry jam

• Courtesy of The Culinary Center of Kansas City.
• Matt Chatfield is comfortable teaching in the kitchen.

Executive Chef Matt Chatfield has a small office amid the dry-goods storage at the Culinary Center of Kansas City. He points to the pictures over his computer. Next to photos of his wife and daughters is a posed picture, not unlike a class photo, taken at a Shotokan Karate Club retreat. Chatfield is among those gathered in white uniforms, his place earned as a practicing black belt.

“Excellence comes from doing something every day,” Chatfield says.

Yesterday, he talked about the heyday of the Hallmark company kitchen. Tomorrow he’ll share five kitchen essentials for the home cook.