Cooking 4 Life™

For the past four weeks I have been teaching a cooking class. One of my good friends who works with a company helping people with mental disabilities asked me if I would like to teach cooking for their clients. I thought what a great idea, and came up with a program to help these people be more independent, healthy, and confident by cooking simple meals for themselves. I called the course Cooking 4 Life™. It's not fancy gourmet style cooking, it is meant to demystify the art of cooking and show them that if they can read a recipe, they can cook anything.



We have six (6) students and some carers to help manage any challenges that certain types of disabilities may bring into the kitchen. So far, so good. Every week we cook a recipe for a meal and we eat the finished food together, and then wash up together. The most satisfying thing for me is to watch all these students tuck hungrily into a meal that they have just prepared themselves. Time will tell if they end up preparing the dishes in their own homes.

As an offshoot of the classes, I have been approached by the community centre where we conduct the classes. They needed a casual chef and I begin working for them tomorrow.