The teaching kitchen is an experimental and experiential learning classroom that focuses on the relationship between food and life. Educational opportunities are presented that integrate culture, history, language, ecology, biology and mathematics and other classroom related subject areas in the preparation of food. Teachers use the kitchen as a tool to incorporate concepts that already exist in the curriculum.

A major component to the demonstration of the closed-loop food cycle is in the teaching kitchen. Here teachers and students can take raw ingredients, often from the rooftop garden, and transform them into dishes enjoyed as a community. With this, students are able to realize the final component in the comprehensive understanding of the food cycle, while also reiterating the importance of the daily rituals of the table, and gathering for meals.

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