Brainfood

Plating and food presentation play a huge role in how we experience food. When a plate of food is put in front of me the first thing I always do is look at it. At this point I’m already calculating if I’m going to enjoy the dish. Ju......

Brainfood's executive director Paul Dahm and board member Ralph Rosenberg were on Channel 8's Let's Talk Live on Monday, February 16. To watch their segment, go to the website http://cfc.news8.net/externalwebsite.cfm?website=http://www.letstalklive.tv......

At Brainfood we’re all about systems of organization. We label our pantry shelves (baking staples here, vinegars and bottled sauces there) and our fridge shelves (cheese and dairy/vegetables and fruit). Our spices boxes-- they’re alphabetized, thank you. So......

As any Brainfood student (past or present) will tell you, there's always excitement in the air on the first Day We Cook Chicken. I personally think we have a very strong, well-edited lineup for the first third of the program where we focus on baking, grains, and vegetables......

Brainfood is in the Washington Business Journal: http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2009/02/02/focus3.html

1. Rinse, dry, and cut chicken 2. Crush cereal into bits

As you’ve heard many times on this blog, we here at Brainfood love our jobs! I absolutely love being in the kitchen four days a week with our Brainfood students. They are funny, energetic and always excited to get their hands dirty and try out a new cooking skill. ......

Chef Emily demos a cookie decorating technique For our first field trip, students with the best attendance records from the Columbia Heights and the Chinatown classes got a real treat: an afternoon excursion to Occasions Catering......

Ok, loyal blog readers, this is an official "my bad" from the Brainfood blogging department. The following post about Chef Teddy and Chef Matt's classroom visits is actually from last year. Yes-- last year. It was initially part of a collection of posts about guest chefs at Brainfood......

On September 22nd and September 23rd Brainfood opened it's kitchen doors for its 10th year of after school programming. The kitchens at our Columbia Heights and Chinatown locations were once again full of energetic youth ready to cook, bake, eat, learn and serve......

You may have been tipped off by the increasingly blustery afternoons, or the quickly darkening skies at 4 in the afternoon. Or maybe it’s the slow reemergence of scarves and closed-toed shoes on the fashion-forward DC workforce that made you take note. ......

Brainfood was selected for this year's Cataloge for Philanthropy. The Catalogue introduces people to the world of smaller, local charities. If “making a difference” is one of your goals, then excellent smaller charities may be for you. ......

One of our Brainfood alumni, Ivory Sarceno was recently asked to reflect on her Brainfood experience for the Afterschool Alliance's Storybook project. Click here to read Ivory's Brainfood Story