KIND KITCHEN GROUP
A 501(C)(3) CULINARY EDUCATION AND SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING NONPROFIT
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Using food as a vehicle
for Education, Help, Identity
Community, Change,
and Care
Tuesday, September 29th | 6:00 PM | KKG Headquarters - $30 per person
What would change if you ran your household like a chef runs a restaurant kitchen?
90-minute hands-on workshop that takes the systems professional chefs use every day and puts them to work in your real life — your grocery list, your pantry, your budget. You'll learn pars, how to build a grocery list that actually saves you time in the store, and how to maximize your dollar.
You'll leave with a par list template, a take-home handout, and at least one concrete system change you're ready to make this week.
No cooking experience required. Just bring your kitchen habits — we'll build on what you already know.
📅 September 29th @ 6 PM
📍 Kind Kitchen Headquarters — Durham, NC
🎟️ $30 | All materials included
Featured Programming
Saturday, August 8th | 6:00 PM | Daughters Coffee & Books - $30 per person
A Book Journaling Class by Ink & Ingredients
You love a good book. Now let's make sure you actually remember it.
Ink & Ingredients is hosting Spill The Ink, a book journaling class designed to help you slow down, reflect, and build a creative reading practice that's totally your own.
You'll walk away with a journal, a guide to make it yours, and a whole new way to experience every book you pick up, plus light bites and good company to get you started.
📅 Saturday, August 8th @ 6 PM
📍 Daughters Coffee & Books
🎟️ $30 | All materials included
Spots are limited — grab yours before they're gone.
See you there, The Ink & Ingredients Team
A Love Letter to Home & Handmade
August 22nd | 6:00 PM | Location: 3211 Shannon Road - $60 per person
Some stories aren't about grand gestures — they're about the quiet, complicated love that lives in a family. This month, we're getting our hands doughy for it.
Ink & Ingredients is diving into We Don't Talk About Carol by Kristen L. Berry , a gripping novel about buried family secrets and the truths we inherit. We're pairing it with a hands-on Ravioli-Making experience. With a lesson focusing on the tender and secret things we cannot see.
Hands-on Ravioli-Making experience: dough, filling, and folding from scratch
Guided book reflection and discussion around We Don't Talk About Carol
Custom bookmarks to take home
Session packet to guide your experience and keep the conversation going
You’re snagging a recipe card
Some fun challenges along the way
Come ready to read, roll, and uncover something new.
Need the book? Snag it here: https://bookshop.org/lists/ink-and-ingredients-book-club
A Love Letter to Heritage & Home Cooking
September 20th | 5:00 PM | Orenge South Durham | $60 per person
Some recipes are never written down, they live in memory, in hands, in the stories passed at the stove. This month, we're changing that.
We're gathering around Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray, a novel steeped in legacy, ambition, and the Harlem Renaissance, and pairing it with a Recipe Writing experience. Bring a family recipe (written down or memorized) and we'll help you start the process of putting it to paper, so it's never lost.
Guided Recipe Writing workshop, bring a family recipe to document
Guided book reflection and discussion around Harlem Rhapsody
Custom bookmarks to take home
Session packet to guide your experience and keep the conversation going
Start of your own family recipe book, yours to keep and build on
We are having wine & charcuterie
Come ready to read, remember, and write down what matters.
Need the book? Snag it here: https://bookshop.org/lists/ink-and-ingredients-book-club
Monday, September 21st | 7:00 PM | KKG Headquarters - $30 per person
Good food starts with good technique — and it all begins with knowing your way around a knife.
Sharp Skills is a monthly hands-on class hosted at Kind Kitchen HQ, open to anyone ages 11 and up. Whether you're just getting started in the kitchen or looking to level up your prep game, each session will build your confidence, improve your precision, and make cooking more fun.
From blade basics to pro-level prep, every month is a fresh session — so you can join any time, bring a friend, and keep coming back.
📅 September 21st @ 7 PM
📍 Kind Kitchen Headquarters — Durham, NC
🎟️ $30 per session | Ages 11+
Josiah VH. - Current Student
“Us cooks are like sparks of a wildfire. We come from different places but end up rising in the same sky.”
