Dialogues Through Food: A Kids Cookout! A Cooking Workshop For Kids and Their Pet Adults
Sat Jul 27, 11:00 - Sat Jul 27, 13:00
Food Jams
ABOUT
A part of the Dialogues through Food series
THE EVENT
This journey of culinary discovery is for children ages 6 to 10 and their pet adults - a parent or guardian.
The kids lead, the adults follow, on this specially crafted adventure taking place at the Food Jams Soute venue in Salt River.
The Food Jams team has crafted a robust and delicious culinary playground at Soute that gives the kids agency in the kitchen and requires the adults follow instruction. This power inversion is central to fostering a positive relationship between food and child.
THE HOST
The concept of Food Jams was developed whilst the founder, Jade de Waal, was studying jazz music in Cape Town. Aware that the best way to learn was to jam with other musicians at night – often with musicians she didn’t know or hadn’t met before coming together on stage - these nights would always end with a happy heart and great hunger.
Her friends, aware of her love for the kitchen, started asking her to teach them to cook. She said, ‘Let’s jam together, using food instead of music'. She wrote up recipes & invited them to her parents' kitchen.
The first one was on the 4th of February 2010 and they have been jamming ever since. Food Jams blossomed when a partnership with Jocelyn Myers-Adams, an internationally renowned, locally-based chef & entrepreneur came to fruition in 2020.