Category Culinary Skills & Empowerment

A Better Life Foundation’s Cook with Us programme began with a simple observation: that the people who most needed access to nutritious food were often also the people who had the least confidence in the kitchen. The gap between having…

The ability to cook — genuinely cook, not just reheat or assemble — is one of the most practical and valuable life skills a person can have. It directly affects nutritional quality, food spending, food waste, and the kind of…

The case for culinary education as a tool for youth empowerment goes well beyond nutrition. Learning to cook — especially for young people who have grown up in food-insecure households or who have had limited exposure to the kitchen as…