Through a network of schools across the country, Emeril’s Culinary Garden & Teaching Kitchen offers a ground-to-plate curriculum focused on empowering children through food.
Emeril Lagasse Foundation announces the launch of Emeril’s Culinary Garden & Teaching Kitchen, a national education initiative created to enrich the lives of elementary and middle school children through a fun, fresh perspective on food. The program fully integrates culinary gardens and teaching kitchens in schools as interactive learning environments.
Through a unique curriculum developed by a national task force of educators, culinary professionals and farm-to-school experts, schools are provided with grade-level standards for gardening and cooking classes that are not only integrated across all core subjects, but also aligned with national academic standards. The curriculum uses over 100 of Chef Emeril’s recipes that have been modified for the classroom.
Emeril’s Culinary Garden & Teaching Kitchen is the vision of Chef Emeril Lagasse and his wife, Alden. Since they established the Emeril Lagasse Foundation in 2002, the Foundation has granted more than $10 million to children’s charities that provide culinary, nutrition and arts education. While those efforts will remain a cornerstone of the Foundation’s mission, the creation of Emeril’s Culinary Garden & Teaching Kitchen will allow the Foundation to broaden its reach and make a direct, lasting impact on youth in America.
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