Reflections On The Brainfood Way

By Samrawit Sisay

I've never had kale before. At least, before I got involved with Brainfood. I realize I haven't had a lot of things before getting involved with Brainfood, and everything turned out really well, despite that. Before getting involved with Brainfood, I was a bit apprehensive but also excited. On a rudimentary level, this program is about teaching kids basic cooking skills, and on another level, it is a youth development program that teaches skills that would not only help the kids in the kitchen but also in life outside the kitchen. But Brainfood is also about pushing boundaries: trying something you have never eaten before or might have thought was "nasty" (a word we should never use in a Brainfood kitchen), or even doing something you never thought you would do, like knead dough.