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Cooking for Community
Description
Do you love to cook? Want to help feed the community? Join us for a new food justice cooking camp, perfectly crafted for middle schoolers! Cooking for Community will focus on preparing nutritious meals for the young, old and everyone in between. We will consider food access and equity in Seattle, learn from and cook alongside local chefs, invite and feed members of the community, and learn to grow and prepare fresh vegetables to make culturally relevant foods.
We will:
- Develop and practice cooking skills such as knife skills, measurements, food safety, cooking with heat and developing/reading recipes.
- Collaborate with local food programs to help prepare and distribute fresh, local foods for communities and families in need.
- Learn to grow your own food in urban spaces (container gardens, plant propagation, microgreens and more).
- Host a smoothie taste-off!
- Cook alongside guest chefs to learn to prepare fresh, culturally relevant dishes.
- Identify food inequities, explore and propose solutions.
- Prepare and serve a meal to be shared with our local community group.
Cooking camps are a smaller group size and have an additional cost for supplies. Dietary considerations and food allergies must be communicated in advance. Please be aware that our kitchen is a shared facility that uses nuts and other allergens.