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Let's Grow Akron Seasonal Cooking Workshop: Spring Salads

With Chef Dannika Stevenson from Sip.Savor.Soul

Join Let's Grow Akron for monthly cooking demonstrations. Zoom participation with a local chef is unlimited. Food kits are available for the first 20 registrants. Please register for a program link.

This program will be presented online in Zoom. A login will be sent several days prior to the event.  

If you do not have an email address, please call 330.643.4650 to learn about how to participate in this program via phone.

Cooking demonstrations will take place at 6 pm on the second Thursday of each month beginning in May and going through October 2021.

Local chef, Dannika Stevenson from Sip.Savor.Soul, will be preparing a budget-friendly, seasonal dish with fresh produce available at the Summit Lake Neighborhood Farmers' Market and/or Let’s Grow Akron Community Farm Market. Details about these markets will be shared at each session and can be found on Let’s Grow Akron’s website: www.letsgrowakron.org

FREE food kits, including the ingredients needed to prepare the monthly seasonal dish, will be made available for pick up at the Kenmore Branch Library for the first 20 people who register.

The theme for this series of classes is local, seasonal eating. The benefits of cooking and eating produce that is grown locally and harvested in season will be emphasized. Seasonal produce is more readily available, and therefore more affordable at the grocery store or farmer’s market. Local produce is harvested closer to ripeness and travels a shorter distance from the farm to the grocery store, retaining more nutrients and reducing the impact on the environment. Purchasing from local growers and producers stimulates and strengthens the local economy. Seasonal produce grown and harvested locally has the best flavor!

Each class will include a 30-minute cooking demonstration plus 15 minutes for Q&A and 15 minutes to share information about Let’s Grow Akron Community Farm Market, Summit Lake Neighborhood Farmers' Market, and local farmers' market nutrition incentive programs.

Related resources:

Local Dirt: Seasonal Recipes for Eating Close to Home / Andrea Bemis

Eating for Pleasure, People, & Planet: Plant Rich, Zero Waste, Climate Cuisine / Tom Hunt

100 Days of Real Food on a Budget: Simple Tips and Tasty Recipes to Help You Cut Out Processed Food Without Breaking the Bank / Lisa Leake

Please do not share the web link for this program. If someone else is interested in attending, please have him or her contact the Library to register.

A webcam and microphone may be necessary for participation in this interactive event. If you have one or neither of these, your level of participation will be limited.

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