Kitchen Team
What is the experimental kitchen team all about?
Like the other agricultural teams, our experimental kitchen team's mission is to "release the abundance of God's creation to feed the nations." The agricultural teams are all founded on the belief that food security would be much healthier if it had a much broader base - a base that includes many food crops that are currently un- or underutilized. The agricultural outreach teams seeks to learn about and promote such crops. The kitchen team seeks to learn to use them.
Activities
Our kitchen team members are (or become) experts at discovering how to make nutritious and appealing foods from unusual ingredients. Most do so in their own kitchens, with ingredients that we supply. Once a week, the team meets as a whole to share their discoveries, and to work together in our team kitchen. Every few weeks, we also serve a meal to volunteers from Purdue University's international student community. The student volunteers evaluate the dishes that we prepare, and help us to improve them for palates far and wide.
The team also meets from time to time in a "field kitchen", to prepare a meal with and for our other teams under conditions that more closely resemble those available to the people that our outreaches serve.
Participation
Our kitchen team is comprised of:
- A small full-time team that supports and coordinates the activities of the larger team
- Volunteers near Purdue University
- Remote volunteers, who experiment with unusual ingredients, and contribute what they learn over the Internet
