These Two People Want to Change the World Through Cooking and Food Choices | Food Tank.
When Adam Aronovitz and Alissa Bilfield set out to travel the world and serve others, they could not find a volunteer opportunity that fit their need. Frustrated by administrative obstacles and too much emphasis on volunteers’ personal experience, they decided to develop a food literacy curriculum they could share anywhere in the world. Ultimately Aronovitz and Bilfield went on to create the Cookbook Project to address the root causes of the global public health epidemic of chronic disease as well as environmental issues.
They saw cooking and food choice as a solution and developed an experiential education model to engage youth. The project now helps people connect to food by participating in workshops, training to serve as local leaders, and experiencing cultural exchange. It reacquaints people with local foods and cooking methods and to promotes understanding of the role that food plays in health, the local community, and our global environment. In this interview, the founders discuss the goals of the organization, the curriculum, and several of the projects being conducted across the globe.
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