Taste of African Heritage

Library Type

Public

Cost:

900 for the instructor, 300 dollar per year for a digital license. If you choose to teach it yourself or with a volunteer, then you would only need to spend the 300 for the license. Also, various costs for food supplies for the demonstrations.

Partnership:

Oldways (Oldwayspt.org), One can purchase physical copies of the curriculum from their store, or pay for a yearly digital license which will allow you to print as many copies and run it as many times as you like in a year.
Description:

This course was a digital course. All members of the program who signed up were sent digital copies of the Curriculum (which included recipes that were not prepared in the classes for further practice). The idea behind the course was to teach about various traditional african cooking traditions and diets. The program was designed based on evdience based, peer reviewed studies, and shown to increase the intake of vegetables, fruit, and greens as well as have a beneficial effect on blood pressure. This combination of health benefit and learning about other flavors and traditions made it a very interesting program to our patrons. It met 6 times, each instance covering a different topic and cooking a different recipe from the handbook. The handbook also has additional info and recipes. Many of the participants then became more interested in various African cooking (asking for restaurant recommendations and the like) from the area.