Classes
Thinking about Cooking with the Oldsters
Back by popular demand! I presented a 2-hour power point seminar in February on Cooking in 20th Century America to the Senior Studies Institute in Portland. Now they’ve invited me to come again, this time focusing in my thesis that prescriptive directions and precise measurements have alienated us from our kitchens and left us prey to Big Food.
Title: Leave Your Measuring Cups Behind and Take Back Your Kitchen!
Date: May 25, 1pm
Place: Central, PCC Campus at OMSI
Cooking with the Youngsters
Nutritionists and dietitians say one of the best things we can do for children’s health is to get them cooking early. So far we’re just working with the Little Aunties, but still, aiming to do our part.
Cooking with the Little Aunties is a series of hands on classes near and dear to my heart. The series is named after the “little aunties” I met when I lived on the Hopi mesas and saw young girls rocking the babies, cooking, and generally helping their mothers so very eagerly and capably.
Girls, ages 8-12, are welcome to the Little Aunties classes. There have been two in this series so far, both at public libraries–with mothers (& fathers) and grandmothers (& grandfathers) in attendance. The girls made homemade muesli, cottage cream, and passed out samples of their easy, thrifty, healthy, muesli topped with seasonal, organic fruit to the audience. It was a great success and everyone wanted more.
So, the third Cooking with the Little Aunties class will be in the evening on May 12, 2010 at the Stevenson Community Library in Stevenson, Washington. We will be taping the class and airing clips on You Tube. Best of all, the girls will be making organic pies with 100 percent whole wheat pastry flour and butter from mamma cows who get out to pasture.
Questions? email jean at measurefreehippiecook dot com
