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Cookery skills
One of the barriers to a healthy diet is having the skills, knowledge and confidence to shop for, and prepare, healthy meals. Community-based cookery sessions can offer a relaxed environment to learn cookery skills.
Sessions can either happen within an existing group or be open to all. They might take place in a local community centre but some areas have community kitchens for hire.
CFHS works to demonstrate the benefits of community cookery sessions, and to share learning from community food initiatives in order to improve their practice.
Our plan for 2024/2025
CFHS is currently working with the Scottish Government, community food networks and our colleagues in Public Health Scotland to plan how the community food sector can be supported in the future.
News and updates
Zero Waste Cooking Day
Guest Blog: Cooking skills online – learning from Feeding Fifers
What do researchers talk about when they talk about cooking skills courses?
‘It’s not just a wee cooking group’: Community cooking skills courses – train the trainers workshop
Reasons to be cheerful part 2 – CFHS cooking skills research. What did we learn about the best ways to run a cooking skills course?
Cooking skills blog: Cooking skills research – Reasons to be cheerful, part one
Community cooking skills – evidence and networking event
Do you run or manage community cooking skills activities in Scotland?
Cooking skills blog 33: Working with vulnerable groups: Supporting people affected by food insecurity: ideas from practitioners
Cooking skills blog 32: Practitioner guest blog: ‘the benefits of being forgetful and burning rice’