Kitchens
Each kitchen is a little different with some groups cooking and eating a meal together, some groups cooking lots of food to take home to eat later and some groups having a special focus on a certain type of food such as vegetarian. It is up to individual community kitchens to decide how their kitchen will be run.
Here’s a current list of the region’s active Community Kitchens. If there’s a new one we don’t have listed yet, please let us know by emailing info@communitykitchensnw.org.
- North Seattle Community Kitchens
- SW Seattle Community Kitchens
- SE Seattle Community Kitchens
- Downtown Seattle Kitchens
- Greater Puget Sound Region
North Seattle Community Kitchens
Queen Anne Community Center Lifelong Recreation Community Kitchen
Our program is directed toward seniors who live in one or two person households. We aim to use lean protein sources, whole grains and minimal
saturated fat and salt. Each session has four main dishes– poultry, beef, pork or fish and vegetarian— plus two side dishes— usually whole grain or a vegetable. We like to introduce folks to more unusual grains so we have used quinoa, bulgur and wild rice in addition to the more common brown rice.
Each participant takes home 12 individual servings ready for the freezer–two of each recipe plus a recipe folder. The kitchen meets on the third Tuesday of the month from 1:30 to 4 pm. Cost is $25 per session. Limit 6 participants, prior registration required. To register call 206-684-4240. Located at QA Community Center, 1901 1st Ave W.
Wallingford Community Kitchen
The Wallingford Community Kitchen meets at the Wallingford Community Senior Center, located at the Good Shepherd Center, as well as other locations. For more information, check out their facebook page and website.
Greenwood Community Kitchen
The Greenwood Community Kitchen is located at Greenwood Senior Center at 525 N. 85th between Dayton St. and N. 85th. The phone number to register is 206-297-0875. You can also e-mail Shannon Bailey at ShannonB@neighborcare.org.
Ballard Community Kitchen
Ballard Community Center 6020 28th Ave NW, Seattle, WA
Our community kitchen is hosted by Sustainable Ballard and Seattle Parks and Recreation. We will emphasize using local sustainable foods. Meals will be vegetarian and options to add meat will be given. Each month will provide a different theme to the dishes created. Bring 8 to 10 large containers with you to take your meals home with you.
The community kitchen will be held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month and meets 6-9:00 pm. Cost is $25 per person, and advance registration is needed. You can call 684-4093 to register over the phone, on-line by going to www.seattle.gov/parks by clicking on the SPARC logo, or in person at any local community center. Space is limited to 12 people.
Hunger Intervention Program Community Kitchens
This kitchen is held at the Lake City Presbyterian Church kitchen and was created for tenants of McDermott Place, a 75 unit housing project for homeless veterans and low income individuals. The kitchen will operate weekly. For more information please contact: Alison Hill, Executive Director, Hunger Intervention Program, 206-618-2828, www.hungerintervention.org
SW Seattle Community Kitchens
Delridge Community Kitchen
SOUL Sunday is a Community Kitchen with monthly gatherings designed to build stronger connections between community members.
Come prepare yummy dishes with other Delridge neighbors and share in the wonderful things our community has to offer!
Cooking sessions are held at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center located at 4408 Delridge Way SW (across from Delridge Community Center). Metro bus routes #120 and #125.
For more information, please contact Joseph Munnerlyn of Team Delridge at 206-432-7914 or josephmunnerlyn@yahoo.com.
SE Seattle Community Kitchens
Rainier Family Kitchen
Food is the one common thread that weaves through all our lives. Eating is a basic need we all face and throughout history has shaped the cultures of people around the world. Looking at the food culture in America which is reflected in our obesity epidemic and crumbling health care system, it is clear that we must reshape our food habits. This is why the Community Kitchen Project is increasingly important. These gatherings offer community members a supportive environment to come together by pooling resources and preparing large quantities of food to share, all while learning new cooking skills, meal planning techniques, and enjoying the company of their fellow neighbors. Community Kitchens offer the potential through long term establishment to address the issues of food security and diet related chronic disease prevention through lifestyle habits around food.
The Rainier Community Kitchen Project intends to increase accessibility to quality foods for low income families with few resources and support systems. The approach is to enhance self sufficiency by participants acquiring basic culinary skills and meal planning to enhance their home cooking based on the knowledge and resources obtained through the community kitchens. These events will also provide social opportunities for those who are isolated or lacking family support.
This pilot program will bring community kitchens to low income residents in the Rainier Valley of South Seattle. Beginning in October 2009 through June 2010, monthly kitchen events will be offered at both the Rainier Community Center. Through their involvement in community kitchens, participants will increase access to healthy foods by cooking and taking home prepared meals. They will enrich their cooking and meal planning capacity by having guided cooking stations following healthy recipes with input from both a nutritionist and experienced cook. Lastly, they will foster social networks for their well being by interacting and connecting with their fellow neighbors. Recognizing the diversity found in South Seattle, the sharing of food cultures through community kitchens also offers a unique way to bring people of different backgrounds together in a nurturing environment through an angle of empowerment to share food ways with others.
Rainier Community Kitchen
Kitchens are held on the second Thursday of the month from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm and cost is 25 dollars per kitchen. We usually make a fresh salad, a casserole to freeze, a soup and a baked item like cookies. When possible we try to use fresh, organic produce and while we do use meat the main focus is on vegetarian options.
The Rainier Community Center kitchen is located at 4600 38th Ave. S. The phone number is 206-386-1919.
To register please go to the SPARC web page and register on-line. You can also register in person but need to do so at least by the day before as we need to know how much food to buy.
Use the form below to contact us if you are interested in participating, partnering or volunteering at the Rainier Community Center Community Kitchen.
Rainier Vista Community Kitchen
A new program will offer neighbors a chance to get together and prepare healthy home cooked meals to take home to their freezer. Learn new cooking skills, discover healthy recipes and make new friends!
Want to get involved? We need leaders for this program! Have a skill or a recipe to offer? Want to learn one? Just want to cook with neighbors and get to know each other better? Call Kate Farmer at 206.461.4568 ext. 211 or email at Katef@nhwa.org
Website link: http://newrainiervista.com/public/
Garfield Community Kitchen
This kitchen is run by Linda from the Odessa Brown Clinic. To learn more about the kitchen and find out when the next one is scheduled please contact her at: linda.murtfeldt@seattlechildrens.org
Downtown Seattle Community Kitchens
Pike Market Senior Center Kitchen
Even though Ryan graduated from the California Culinary Academy in 2004
with training in classic French cuisine, he doesn’t cook quite that way anymore. Through stints cooking in restaurants and cafes, selling single-origin olive oil, pouring wine, and making micro-roasted coffee (he’s currently a barista), he found the way he really likes to cook.
Kitchen meets the second Thursday of the month and cooks with produce from the market. For more information contact Ryan at: jjeatsndrinks@gmail.com
Greater Puget Sound Region
Salishan Community Kitchen
The Salishan Community Kitchen is cooking up community in Tacoma! Residents of the Salishan Housing Community are now doing a monthly community kitchen. For more information please contact Lisa Zahn at: lzahn@tacomahousing.org
Snoqualmie Valley Community Kitchen
This great kitchen is held monthly in a local church. Please contact Terrie for more information: Terrie@direys.com
Ellensburg Community Kitchen
As part of Back to Our Roots, a WIC Fruit and Vegetable Community Partnerships grant project, the Ellensburg Community Kitchen will start in August. Kitchen will meet once a month, in the FISH Food Bank facility, dates/times to be determined based on participant interest. All are welcome. Contact eburgcommunitykitchen@gmail.com for more information.
