Passing on the Gift of Sustainable Cooking

The participants will work collaboratively with their peers, faculty, and staff to create semester long workshops that teach students how to prepare healthy meals for one or two people in order to minimize food waste. The cooking class will be budget friendly and target many students who have a limited amount of money for groceries. The participants will discuss their goals during the first class and plan classes according to volunteers’ knowledge base and expertise. The participants will work with a local organization and faculty member to secure a kitchen space large enough for the cooking sessions. Once, we have acquired a facility, we will use videos, flyers, A-Frames, Social Media (Facebook), and campus announcements posted over our campus wide emailing system, DSConnect to promote the cooking classes. At the end of each class, we will survey the students to determine the class’ strengths and areas that need improvement for future classes. In addition, the students will have a chance to compete in contests by proving that they took the skills they learned in class home and using the skills to reproduce the meal demonstrated in class by taking pictures or posting videos on the project’s Facebook page. The Act portion of the project will involve the purchasing of ingredients, hand out preparation and implementation. At the end of the semester, we will produce a cookbook of all the recipes cooked.