About Us
Mission:
Our mission is to make healthy plant-based cooking and eating a community habit through hands-on food education.
Bronx Eats offers in-person and virtual plant-based whole foods cooking classes that teach recipe preparation for diverse cuisines using as many fresh and local ingredients as possible. All are welcome and classes are free of charge.
Vision:
Bronx Eats intends to become an integral part of Bronx community life, holding events that draw a crowd and spreading knowledge and skills that bring about a cascade of consequences:
An empowered population that will demand access to healthier produce in their neighborhoods.
Master chefs and Bronx locals who showcase their recipes and culinary traditions in Bronx Eats classes.
Interns who go on to become health and food justice change-makers.
Residents who grow their own food or start community gardens, food co-ops, etc.
Changes in the culinary landscape of the Bronx, the attention of politicians to the borough’s food problem, and systemic change towards a healthier local food system.
Core Values
Empowerment
We aim to build confidence in managing your diet, health, and food choices.
Health
We aim to improve access to fruits and vegetables and make healthy eating attainable, easy, and fun.
Community
We aim to make cooking and mealtime a shared social opportunity which becomes a part of everyone’s daily life.
Independence
We aim to encourage participants to eat real and fresh food rather than relying on unhealthy processed foods.
Acting Locally
We love our communities and want to nourish them. While there are many global issues to tackle, we also have to tend our own garden. Bronx Eats aims to showcase the culinary knowledge of the borough which we like to call Bronx Power!
“The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual act of family and community, from mere animal biology to an act of culture”
— Michael Pollan