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Introducing Kitchen Kid’s:
an Enrichment Program where the Kitchen Classroom is the Tastiest Place to Learn! Kitchen Kid is excited to bring its newly designed enrichment program, Classroom Cooks, to your school this year! For the 2011/2012 school year, Kitchen Kid, a Santa Monica, CA based mobile cooking school for kids, will debut a completely re-designed edible education curriculum which carefully integrates core academic subjects, (such as math, science, geography, and culture), and important social values, (such as cooperation, sustainability, and self-reliance), with culinary concepts (like palate development and knife skills) and nutrition education (think fresh vs. processed foods and where food comes from). Edible Education Kitchen Kid believes in the power of food to unite people around the table and in the kitchen. In a time when childhood obesity continues to rise at alarming rates and many children are surprised to learn peaches grow on trees (not in cans), we teach important values through edible education, an essential ingredient to raising healthy, happy children. Our most popular inter-disciplinary courses, Books for Cooks, Global Eats, and Secret Garden, feature exciting new recipes, activities, and teaching strategies while continuing to be fun, and appealing to both Food Network junkies and kitchen first-timers. Kids cook with fresh, healthy ingredients and even learn about presentation: favorite recipes include Strega Nona’s Pesto Pasta, Watermelon Feta Salad (served in a hollowed-out watermelon!), and Vietnamese Spring Rolls. The Kitchen Classroom Kitchen Kid has partnered with over 20 local schools and organizations, including private schools, public school districts, community centers, and religious programs, and continues to grow. No kitchen or special equipment is needed to teach enrichment classes during or after the school day. We provide all ingredients, supplies, tools, and materials, allowing kids to mix math, simmer science, and taste geography in a “kitchen classroom” almost anywhere. Our flexible pricing is comparable to other enrichment classes offered at your school. Classroom Cooks courses are taught by trained “Culinary Coaches” who electrify the kitchen classroom with their love for cooking and teaching, and epitomize the belief that “the kitchen classroom is the tastiest place to learn!” About Kitchen Kid Since 2006, Kitchen Kid has been Los Angeles’ premier mobile culinary school for children and families. Founded by Samantha Barnes, a former middle school teacher, Kitchen Kid believes edible education is essential to raising healthy, happy children, and teaches lifelong skills through the lens of cooking. With afterschool culinary programs, in-home cooking classes, birthday parties, and summer camps, Kitchen Kid creates the tastiest place to learn.
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Current Course Offerings Books for Cooks Ideal for grades Pre-K – 1st Reading has never tasted so good! This beginning-to-cook class is the perfect way to quench your young chef's thirst for culinary adventure and develop his or her appetite for nutritious nibbles. Books reinforce academic and social skills, support diverse cultural values, and coincide with seasonal cooking. Recipes expand the culinary horizons of the tot-chefs, encouraging them to use all their senses to explore and experience new foods. Kitchen safety and culinary basics are integrated in each lesson. Healthy recipes may include Little Pea Tacos, I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato Salsa, Strega Nona’s Pesto Pasta, and Very Hungry Caterpillar Snacks. Children create a cookbooklet with all class recipes!
Global Eats Ideal for grades 2nd-6th Come travel the world… of food! Young chefs will stamp their passports and explore wonderful cuisines from around the globe! Through the delicious lens of cooking, lessons emphasize geography, culture, language, history, and music! Students learn fundamental culinary skills and nutrition education while having fun and exploring their creativity. Healthy and delicious recipes may include Italian panzanella salad, handmade tortillas with frijoles and salsa verde, Vietnamese spring rolls, French parfaits, and North African couscous. Students design a multi-cultural cook-booklet with all class recipes!
The Secret Garden Ideal for grades 2nd – 8th This class epitomizes “farm to fork”, as young chefs embark on a culinary journey inspired by the farmers’ markets and the Food Network’s famed Iron Chef Challenge. Each class chefs are introduced to a fresh “Secret Ingredient”, such as basil, lemons, strawberries, or peas, and learn about its journey from seedling to the table. Using all 5 senses to explore the ingredients, chefs also learn about their nutritional, cultural, and culinary properties. Young chefs may take a trip to the “Cucumber Spa” before making Mediterranean cucumber cups, become “Bell Pepper Detectives” while whipping up a batch of tri-pepper quesadillas, or make a cornhusk doll and sweet corncakes to help understand the importance of maize in Native American society. Chefs compile a cook-booklet of recipes and activities, and also have the opportunity to bring home seeds to plant in their own kitchen garden!
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Kitchen Kid’s Partner Schools and Organizations include: Santa Monica / Malibu USD Muir/SMASH McKinley Roosevelt Franklin Grant Edison Webster Will Rogers
City of Santa Monica Virginia Avenue Park City of Beverly Hills Beach Cities Health District AdventurePlex Redondo Beach USD Jefferson Tulita
Independent Schools Brentwood School Camelot Kids Preschool Crossroads School Discovery School Laurence School Little Aviators Preschool Le Lycee Francais de Los Angeles Westland School
What Others Are Saying about Classroom Cooks
“With the many years that we have had Kitchen Kid here at Virginia Avenue Park, toddlers, school-aged children and adults all love the classes we offer. The instructors are great, the food is yummy and the demand is high, that is why we love to have Kitchen Kid be a part of our program year in and out!!!" –Alexandra Sanchez, Community Program Director, Virginia Avenue Park “We love Kitchen Kid! We appreciate Samantha’s carefully considered curriculum featuring tasty, seasonal, multicultural, and nutritious treats, sometimes introduced by a story or inspired by the children’s creativity with secret ingredients. Her teachers thoughtfully and skillfully guide our young chefs who take this very fun class!" –
Heidi Wong, After School Program Coordinator, Crossroads School
“The teachers are excellent. The children love their Coach; she captures their attention." – Mme. Haustete, Le Lycee Francais de Los Angeles “Our kids aged between 2-5 thoroughly enjoy the cooking classes and are very proud to share what they learn in with their parents at home. It teaches them not only about nutrition and how to try new foods, but also independence and patience. The most fun is getting to try their creations at the end of each class! Teamwork at it's finest. We love Kitchen Kid. – Renae Plant, Director, Camelot Kids Child Development Center “Thank you, Samantha. Natalie asked for salad tonight!! I almost picked up the phone and called you right away. But instead I decided to play it cool.” – Diana, Mom “This is so fun! I loooove eating peas!” – Jesse, Kid Chef, age 7 © Kitchen Kid, LLC 3435 Ocean Park Blvd. #107-56 l Santa Monica, CA l 90405 www.kitchenkid.com l
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