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What's Cooking...in the Community

What's Cooking is proud to participate in cooking events with children that benefit our community:

This Spring, What's Cooking is proud to promote and participate in Share Our Strength's Great American Bake Sale. This is a national campaign that mobilizes Americans to end childhood hunger by holding bake sales in their communities. Great American Bake Sale proceeds are granted to organizations in communities across America to help provide at-risk children with nutritious meals when they are needed most - during the summer and after school. Additionally, proceeds support Share Our Strength's Operation Frontline, a chef-led nutrition education program for low-income children and families. The Food Network and Family Circle magazine are partners of this event and offer their support in this endeavor. Please visit the What's Cooking Blog to learn more about our efforts with the Great American Bake Sale, and for tips on how to run your own. If you would like to make a financial contribution towards our goal, you may do so on the What's Cooking Bake Sale page of the Share Our Strength website.

During the 2007 Summer, Michelle Stern, owner of What's Cooking, participated in an Educator Study Tour to Honduras with Heifer International. This Study Tour provided us with an opportunity to learn more about Heifer International, issues associated with the root causes of hunger, poverty and environmental degradation, and how our actions as educators help to alleviate these problems. Also, by visiting Heifer project sites and partners, we saw firsthand how Heifer's approach to development really works. What's Cooking will be offering more classes that teach students how food can not just help them live a healthy life, but that it can also be used as a form of service within their local and global communities.

During the Summers of 2006 - 2008, What's Cooking has offered (and will be offering) workshops to Marin Humane Society campers to bake treats for the dogs, cats, horses and birds at the shelter.

And in March, 2007 we coordinated a class with Homeward Bound of Marin called Kids Cooking for Kids, where we cooked healthy meals and bag lunches for 13 families living in an emergency shelter in San Rafael. Many thanks to All Stirred Up for hosting this special event!

What's Cooking would be happy to work with your school or organization to do cooking-related service projects with children in your community.

I just wanted to tell you again how awesome yesterday was! Really! I was so impressed with EVERYTHING! I am so happy that we were a part of it. You should be really very proud of yourself. -AL

Thanks for a great event! It was fun to see the coverage on KRON news last night and the photo in the Marin IJ today. Thanks fo getting the kids involved. My daughter and her friend had a great time and I know other families at our school who would like to participate next time. -MT

Feedback from the event to benefit our residents at Homeward Bound's Family Emergency Center has been fantastic! We really appreciate this opportunity through What's Cooking to let local families get involved in the
work that we do on behalf of the community. -MKS

The highlight of our first annual "Kids in the Kitchen" event was our guest speaker, Michelle Stern of What's Cooking! She enchanted the children with her demonstration of a fun and easy way to assemble a variety of healthy ingredients, ultimately producing an adorable Whalewich sandwich. Her enthusiastic and simple approach to food preparation fired up the imagination of her young audience, and had the children crowding her table after her talk for a chance to chop and mix ingredients. Michelle left the kids excited about their own abilities and empowered with useful ideas to take home. - C.M, Junior League of Santa Rosa