Teaching Kitchen
The teaching kitchen offers numerous opportunities to learn:
- basic cooking and nutrition concepts
- techniques and skills to help you get comfortable in the kitchen
- recipes and ideas for nourishing, flavorful, affordable, and healthy foods
Stay tuned for future classes!
For individuals and families
Sign up for a class – from beginners to experienced chefs – there’s always something to learn!
For healthcare providers
If you are interested in coordinating a class, contact Jenny. Great for CEUs, team building, employee wellness, patient care and more!
About the Teaching Kitchen:
At the Redleaf Center, we recognize that food and cooking play an important role in overall health and well-being. Specifically for moms and babies, a healthy relationship with food is fundamental for developing/maintaining a healthy body and is the backdrop of a healthy relationship between mom and baby.
Food is ‘medicine’ in the sense that it is critical in nourishing our bodies and our spirits and in preventing disease and promoting health.
Food is also important for personal, cultural, and social reasons, and we recognize that it is part of health and well-being too. This is why the classes and recipes that are developed and utilized in the teaching kitchen are made with a diversity of experiences, traditions, and identities in mind, as well as attention to affordable, simple, and nutritious ingredients and recipes.
All the skills and recipes introduced in the kitchen are based on evidence that shows that food skills and culinary nutrition lead to more confidence in planning, procuring, preparing, and eating foods that will prevent disease and support health for people, their families, their communities, and the planet.
Redleaf is a member of the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative, a network of academic, community-based, and health care organizations that collectively work to amplify the important role that teaching kitchens and culinary/food literacy play in health.
