Chelsea's Teaching Kitchen Celebrates One Year Of Cooking, Community

CHELSEA, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — A unsocial organization room successful Chelsea is celebrating its one-year anniversary.

The non-profit group GreenRoots founded its school room a twelvemonth agone aft they transformed an aged storage into a abstraction for organization and cooking. The room hosts free cooking classes respective times each week for different property groups and successful different languages.

Teaching room coordinator JoJo Emerson said nan room is simply a portion of GreenRoots' nutrient justness program.

"The school room is simply a organization abstraction wherever we each travel together successful bid to stock nutrient and knowledge but besides uplift nan organization and create immoderate magnitude of nutrient sovereignty," Emerson said.

The room not only hopes to thief foster a patient cooking and eating lifestyle, Emerson said they're hoping it tin break down immoderate of nan imaginary societal barriers built up by nan pandemic.

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"Chelsea was 1 of nan hardest deed communities by COVID," Emerson said. "What we've noticed is that folks now are really willing and excited astir building community."

GreenRoots posts nan schedule for its cooking events astatine nan school room here.

WBZ's Carl Stevens (@CarlWBZ) reports.