Brainfood Outside the Box!

Submitted by Brainfood intern, Michele Holzhauser

Brainfood’s Box Project has returned for another fun and exciting summer! 

Box Project is an opportunity for recent Brainfood graduates to participate in another Brainfood program, and learn the workings of a food business.  Brainfood supports and DC locals subscribe to Box Project and receive six boxes.  For six weeks students are in program using recipes to cook up delicious dishes to put in boxes each week that are the

n given to subscribers.   We started program by “keeping calm and going green.”  This box had a variety of green recipes including Swiss chard spanakopita, green harissa, and cheddar chive biscuits, all hand- made by students.  In addition to prepared foods clients also receive fresh produce from Bounty Hill Farm, a farm collective based in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Farm fresh ingredients can range from multi-colored carrots to fresh maple syrup.

Week two and three of program included the “picnic box” and the “all-star breakfast box.”   The picnic box included dishes such as pickled radishes straight from the Brainfood Youth Garden, buffalo chicken bites, and sweet potato truffles.  The “all-star breakfast box” included the fan favorite, bagel bombs, chicken breakfast hash, and a Brainfood favorite, cocoa almond granola.  Future box themes will include a “copycat box”, which are favorite duplicated recipes from restaurants; a “vegan box”, and the student- planned “international box.”  Students have already received rave reviews from clients.   Susan G. said “First box is totally awesome. The spanakopita is off the hook! These kids can really cook!”  Students are also excited about the second-year program.  Their favorite parts of program are not only refining their cooking skills through presentation, but learning the inner workings of a food business. 

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