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Learning happens when students are nourished, and we’re here to help! Grow your skills as a cook, enjoy delicious local, seasonal food, and feel the joy of making yourself something good to eat at our Winter Cook Along! All levels of cooking experience are welcome!

Participating students will receive a FREE ($25 value) box of local, seasonal food ingredients. Chef Joshna Maharaj will lead a cook-along, working step by step through 3 recipes in real time, using ingredients from those food boxes.

February's cook-along theme is: Eating Well as a Student.

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Our next session on the Dalhousie University campus is Thursday February 17, 2022, from 7-8:30pm AST. This is an online event hosted via Zoom. The local food boxes have been very kindly sponsored by The Loaded Ladle. Tickets to join the cook-along and food boxes are free to Dalhousie University and University of King's College students.

Registration closes Thursday February 10, 2022, at midnight AST. Please note that due to the logistics required to order food boxes from local suppliers, registration is final. Please register only if you are sure that you can pick up your food box and attend this event.

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Students will pick up their food boxes from 10am-2pm on Wednesday February 16th at the DSU Farmer's Market in the Dalhousie Student Union building. If you are unable to make it to the Market for this time, please email us at communallunch@gmail.com to figure out an alternative.

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With their food boxes, students will login to a Zoom call where Chef Joshna Maharaj will lead them through a real time cooking session to make 3 recipes using the ingredients in the box.

Who is offering this program?

The Communal Lunch Project. We work to highlight the social function of food to address two issues disproportionately represented in the post-secondary student population: food insecurity and social isolation. Grounded in performance theory and food security theory, the project proposes another way of doing lunch on campus. Check out our website & Instagram for more information.

This event is sponsored by The Loaded Ladle - a student-run, non-hierarchical food security collective which serves Dalhousie students as well as the larger community. We provide locally-sourced, free hot meals 4 times a week out of our kitchen at Dal, as well as providing solidarity to other non-profit groups through volunteering, food preparation and/or kitchen space. We also offer free programming to the community such as food-skill workshops, teach-ins and discussions on food justice, and our To The Root conference. Recently we have been integrating more interactive online programming during covid such as our Ladle TV cooking show, which combined student chefs sharing favourite recipes with a student audience supplied with ingredients; and partnering with our local farmers market to provide food boxes to students. Feel free to reach out to learn more via email at info@loadedladle.com, or check out their website & Instagram for more information.

This event is also sponsored by the Dalhousie Student Union Sustainability Office. Formed in 2007 due to demand from students, the DSU Sustainability Office has played an increasingly important role in improving, instilling, and fostering sustainable operations and vision within the Union and beyond. Through education, impact programs, and community organizing, we strive to do our part in creating a sustainable future and empower those who want to make a difference. Check out their website & Instagram for more information.

Do students need any special equipment or ingredients?

Some. We’ll share a small list of basic cooking tools and readily available ingredients that students will need in our kitchen notes, which will be emailed to you earlier in the week of the cook-along.