“Community Kids Cook w/ Chef Tarsha” is a healthy food education program with its target demographic focused on urban youth.
The program’s objective is to impact youth by offering life skills education and training focusing on prevailing issues of health & nutrition and the prevention of childhood obesity.
We accomplish this mission with a systematic approach to healthy food education via tangible resources (hands-on training), printed resources, interactive lectures and culinary industry exposure (field trips).
We have developed a specific culinary teaching model designed to reinforce core academics (i.e. reading, writing and math) coupled with practical and artistic developmental skills. Equally important is an undercurrent philosophy engaging the value of family bonding opportunities realized through cultivation and preparation of healthy nutritious food and family meal planning.
Youth benefits:
- An educational experience that will help guide cognitive and practical perspectives related to independent healthful preparation and consumption of nutritious meals; thereby incubating an increased probability of positively impacting the health and nutrition of the extended family unit.
Highlighting answers to the questions:
- Where does our food come from?
- What are the benefits of fresh organic & locally grown food?
Practical solutions:
- Fostering critical thinking and development; writing recipes and hands-on food preparation techniques.
Bridging the gap between information, lifeskills and healthy food exposure, “CKC” is an educational component of ECOTONE™ World, LLC – a community sustainability model
“Community Kids Cook w/ Chef Tarsha”™
“We’re teaching your kids to cook with healthful confidence!” —Chef Tarsha Gary
NOTES AND EVALUATIONS:
Over the years, we’ve empowered hundreds of urban youth! Check out a few snapshots of our success:
