As the Boulder Valley School District builds a central production kitchen, Food Services Director Ann Cooper has started a fundraising campaign to add a smaller scale professional teaching kitchen to the plans.
Construction of the 27,000-square-foot, $16 million Culinary Center is paid for through 2014’s $576.5 million bond issue for capital construction projects. The central kitchen, which replaces the district’s regional production kitchens that are located at three schools, is expected to start operating in August.
To add a teaching kitchen, Cooper said, she needs to raise $100,000 to match donations from the Whole Kids and Life Time foundations, which each promised $50,000. Because a teaching kitchen will be used by students in Career and Technical Education culinary classes, she also can add in $80,000 from that program.
“We’re really excited to have a teaching kitchen at the culinary center, but we need to raise some money,” she said. “The teaching kitchen will be available not only for BVSD students, but for the community at large. It will be an asset to the entire community.”
Cooper said she’s basing the teaching kitchen on those used by Google at its campuses, including the Boulder campus, and on college campuses.
“It looks like a culinary school teaching kitchen, not a high school teaching kitchen,” she said. “It’s commercial equipment on a smaller scale.”
The plan is for four suites, which would each accommodate up to four kids or adults, for a total of 16 who could use the kitchen at one time.
Up to two classes a day of culinary students could cook in the space, while culinary students also could work in paid internships in the regular production kitchen. The space also would be used for in-house training for food services staff members.
Arlie Huffman, Boulder Valley’s director of Career and Technical Education, said five of the district’s high schools offer either ProStart Culinary Arts or catering classes.
While the entry level classes are popular, he said, it’s been a challenge to generate enough enrollment at each individual high school to offer more advanced classes. A new, central teaching kitchen would allow the district to add advanced classes at the Boulder Technical Education Center, which is next door to the new kitchen.
Students would learn everything from kitchen set-up and menu development to how to plan buffet set-ups to food preparation in varied settings.
“If we could build out an instructional kitchen, that would be really exciting,” Huffman said.
Outside the school day, plans include team building cooking workshops, cooking classes for adults and children and collaborating with area organizations like Community Food Share to host free cooking and nutrition classes for families.
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2020-02-09 21:09:47Z
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