Chef Jessica Williams offered a healthy cooking class at CD-REC on November 9, 2009, for children to learn the basics of nutrition and MyPyamid information to help them understand what's in the products they typically see in the store. The children then participated in a vegetable and fruit tasting where they sampled pomegranate, red grapefruit, Asian pear, raw sweet potato, red pear and figs. The children finished the session by talking about the benefits of eating fruits and vegetables and how to incorporate them into their daily diet. Click here to see photos of a parents' Cooking Class that Jessica led right after the evening group. Click here to see a children's grocery store tour that another group took with Jessica. Click here for other classes that Jessica teaches. For more information about the program, contact Jessica Williams at 508-642-8591.
 

(Top row) Jessica goes over some food preparation basics, including hand washing which ten-year-old Tyler Branco engages in before the session. (Middle row, left) Tyler and ten-year-old Gavin Garcia pay close attention as Jessica cuts open a blood orange. (Middle row, right) Thirteen-year-old Samantha Kerns listens to the benefits of eating citrus fruit. (Bottom row, left) Jessica passes out samples of fruit to five-year-old Malak Issa. Bottom row, center and right) Seven-year-old Zoe Garcia and her ten-year-old brother, Gavin, watch closely and then respond to questions.