Culinary Camps march on

I've spent most of the past few months teaching Culinary Camps for Teens. Today was the first day of the fourth session of the summer (each five days long), and I'm happy to report that this was the most fun first day so far. This camp has a great group of kids (not to say that any of my participants hasn't been great, but this group really clicks well), and we had tons of fun today. We walked to the Sunflower Market and had a tropical fruit tasting, which was cool (including a first for me: I'd never had a burro banana before--it was really good!). All the kids in this group are enthusiastic about trying new things, and today we had one of the moments that these camps are designed in the hope of: one of the girls decided to try a bell pepper for the first time in her memory, and it turns out that she likes them.

I've taken some pictures of each of the last three camps, so here's a montage:

Making pasta--always a big hit.

Here's one group of kids working on their fruit animals--they were supposed to make animals (real or imaginary) out of an assortment of fruits and vegetables.


Some fruit animal creations.