Community Kitchens Northwest brings people together to prepare food and share it. Everyone gets involved in the food preparation, cooking and cleaning, and then we all eat a meal together. Some kitchens cook for the purpose of taking home ready-to-eat meals. In addition to leaving a community kitchen with food in-hand or a full belly, participants gain cooking skills, fresh ideas, nutrition awareness, and perhaps best of all, new friends.
By Mimosa Collins, RD Community Kitchens Northwest Program Manager “What are we cooking today?” That’s the question every student at Rainier Beach High School cooking club asks as they enter […]
By Leika Suzumura, Community Kitchens NW Program Manager It may be worth changing the old saying to “an apple a day, when grown the organic way.” According to test results […]
By Bethany Fong, Community Kitchens Northwest Registered Dietician We love this tasty recipe for teriyaki pork. If you’re looking for a source of humanely raised, pastured heritage pork, check out […]
By Leika Suzumura, Community Kitchens Northwest Program Manager Don’t be fooled by the name, the Jerusalem artichoke is neither an artichoke nor from Jerusalem. Perhaps that is why it is […]
By Karrie Bergman This fall, RaVE is sponsoring after-school cooking programs for kids from 3rd to 12th grade at South Shore K-8 School, Aki Kurose Middle School, Cleveland High School, and […]
This month the Beacon Hill Garden House was perfumed with vanilla bean, the ripe peachy plum smells of quince and the sweet tang of cinnamon. We made vanilla pear jam, […]
By Leika Suzumura When the room was empty at 2:40pm, I was already coming up with a revised recruitment plan, but sure enough……they started to trickle in with hunger in their eyes! […]
“Last week I picked plums from my tree and cooked up a batch of the jam we made during our last session. It’s the first time I tried canning by […]
On October 19th the Washington State Food and Nutrition Council is putting on a conference on “What’s Cooking in Washington’s Food Environments”. Leika will be presenting along with many other […]
By Rebecca Pearson Here’s an update on Central Washington University’s community kitchen program! Student health assessment data in Spring 2011 showed that CWU students would like to cook and eat healthy […]
