Kids Cook! ™ is a Little Rock based cooking school. We offer cooking workshops and parties for kids and adults, including a variety of summer camps. We are dedicated to inspiring kids to learn and to enjoy healthy eating through hands-on cooking experience. Our goal is to promote healthy, balanced eating through education and experience. We also offer a selection of adult workshops and customized social activities on a seasonal basis.
Basic Premises for Kids
At Kids Cook!™ our first premise is that anything that kids make themselves is going to be healthier than candy, soda and chips. Our second premise is that kids are much more likely to eat and like things that they have made themselves. If they begin to take some responsibility for their part in making the food, they become part of the family food creative process instead of an onlooker whose only power is the veto.
What we notice with kids we have taught is that if we ask them if they like something, they almost automatically say “No, I don’t like that.” But after they make something themselves they will try it and often will like it after all. And they will try anything they have made themselves.
Basic Premises for Adults
We believe that the path to cooking and baking satisfaction is through good recipes, recipes that are resilient, recipes that really work. The recipes that we use at Kids Cook!™ have been gathered from many places and many sources. What they have in common is that they have been tested and adapted and tested and adapted and tested and adapted until they meet our standards for teaching to others: non-complex process to prepare, unusual, seasonal and fresh ingredients and, as much as possible, based on method so as to leave room for individual cooking styles.
Many of the recipes we use are based on methods and leave specifics to personal choice—you can use apples or bananas, American cheese or Swiss cheese, white bread or whole wheat bread. Recipes based on method will work whether your personal style is to follow instructions to the letter or to use recipes as a guideline for personal experimentation.
We believe that there is no substitute for just doing it, except eating of course, so our classes purposely include “hands on” time with the ingredients and recipes.
