Like learning to juggle, learning to cook requires patience, a distraction-free environment, and the ability to handle multiple eggplants at once. Become the ringmaster of your kitchen with today's Groupon: for $22, you get $45 worth of workshops and cooking classes at Wooden Spoons Workshops and Cooking Classes in Ankeny. Any remaining value can be used toward additional classes, or customers can pay the difference to take more expensive options.

For eight years, chef and culinary instructor Deb Cazavilan has been unlocking the secrets to good cooking inside her studio kitchen at Wooden Spoons Workshops and Cooking Classes, which has been featured in the Des Moines Register. Check the calendar for a class that features your favorite fare, which could be sushi, sauces, pies, breads, paella, curry, or canned artisan preserves. In a hands-on Potpie workshop ($65), students learn to make the ultimate comfort food from scratch. Deb reveals the secrets of tender, ultra-flaky pastry and luscious fillings such as sirloin steak and potato, chicken mornay, and thanksgiving dinner. Then after class, you can take your homemade, family-size potpie home to feed your brood or keep an empty lazy Susan company.