KIND KITCHEN GROUP
A 501(C)(3) CULINARY EDUCATION AND SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING NONPROFIT
Using food as a vehicle
for Education, Help, Identity
Community, Change,
and Care
Friday, July 31st | 6:00 PM | KKG Headquarters - $30 per person
What would change if you ran your household like a chef runs a restaurant kitchen?
Shop Like a Chef is a 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 the three chef zones, how to calculate cost per portion to make smarter buying decisions, and how to build a grocery list that actually saves you time in the store.
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.
📅July 31st @ 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
Monday, August 17th | 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.
📅 August 17th @ 7 PM
📍 Kind Kitchen Headquarters — Durham, NC
🎟️ $30 per session | Ages 11+
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, because nothing says "labor of love" quite like folding pasta by hand, one pocket at a time.
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
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.”
