THK Reaching More People Through Workshops
The Happy Kitchen/La Cocina Alegre™
Now Reaching More People Through One-Time Workshops
Here in The Happy Kitchen/La Cocina Alegre™ (THK), we often hear people tell us that they’d love to take one of our 6-week cooking and nutrition class series if only they had the time to devote to it. It’s also not unusual that, after one of our 6-week classes, a participant asks if there are any other THK cooking programs they can attend. Well, we listened, and now we are excited to say, “yes!” there is another THK program that is just what you are looking for!
THK is now offering a variety of one-time workshops. With workshop topics like “Quick Weeknight Meals on a Budget,” “Making Soups from Scratch,” and “Learning to Cook without a Recipe,” you are bound to find a class that fits in with your interests and lifestyle.
Just like with our 6-week class series, workshops are offered both for free at select locations and for a fee to the general public. Through SFC’s Cultivating Healthy Communities initiative, we will offer a number of free cooking workshops this spring. Our primary audience for many of our free workshops and classes are parents whose children are enrolled in partner schools with SFC’s Sprouting Healthy Kids farm-to-school and food-systems education project. We offer our public classes at congregations, community centers and other locations around Austin.
Maria Raper recently attended our “Quick Weeknight Meals on a Budget” workshop at Congregation Beth Israel on Shoal Creek Blvd. Along with 16 other participants, Maria learned how to cook a variety of quick and easy recipes such as Home Made Chicken Stock, Chicken and Dumplings, Fried Rice and Chicken and Celery Salad. Each recipe featured locally raised meat and produce. Maria learned that you don’t need to spend a lot of time or money to serve your family quality home-cooked meals. After the workshop Maria sent us a lovely note expressing her thoughts on the class (see it below).
If you are interested in hosting a workshop at your school, worksite or congregation please let us know. We can even teach a workshop in your home to a group of your friends. What a great way to gather friends together, learning to cook delicious, healthy, local and sustainable food!
For more information on THK workshops or to be added to our email list to receive notice of upcoming workshops, please contact Katy Levit at 236-0074 x103 or katy@sustainablefoodcenter.org.
Thank you note sent after a recent cooking workshop at Congregation Beth Israel
