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  • Collection: Raíces Program History - EcoCulture: Workshops & Presentations

Chef Enrique Pérez presenting his first workshop of the Common Ground program series which he developed and held collaboratively with Raíces throughout 2016.

In 2016, Chef Enrique Pérez collaborated with Raíces EcoCulture to give a series of free cooking and kitchen skills workshops for the community. Topics included nutrition, knife skills, healthy cooking and food security. In this photograph, Enrique…

Chef Enrique Pérez demonstrating how to make homemade salad dressings at the Common Ground workshop series.

Chef Enrique Pérez dressing a salad during a cooking demonstration at the first Common Ground collaborative EcoCulture workshop, held at the George Street Co-op in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Program participant Linda Powell grating cheese for a salad at the first Common Ground workshop held April 23, 2016. Workshops included cooking demonstrations and a hands-on, participatory component.

Ingredients for homemade salad dressings on display at the first Common Ground workshop and cooking demonstration.

Common Ground program participant taste testing one of the salads made during the workshop.

Chef Enrique Pérez cutting cabbage during a cooking demonstration and workshop and salads and homemade dressings.

Chef Enrique Pérez cutting a cabbage for use in a fresh slaw style salad during his cooking demonstration at the April 23, 2016 Common Ground workshop.

Chopping cabbage during a Common Ground "Salads and Dressings" hands-on workshop.

Chef Enrique Pérez demonstrates knife safety and skills while chopping cilantro to include in his Common Ground cooking demonstration on salads and homemade salad dressings.

Chef Enrique Pérez chopping vegetables during the April 23, 2016 Common Ground workshop on salads and homemade salad dressing.

Participants serving salad for taste testing after the Common Ground workshop and cooking demonstration.

Participants serving themselves homemade salads after helping to made them in the kickoff Common Ground community workshop held April 23, 2016.

Renu Jagasia, Common Ground program participant, gives the "a-ok" signal after taste testing the salads made during the kick off Common Ground workshop.

Participants watch as Chef Enrique Pérez demonstrates how to make a fresh salad dressing at the kickoff Common Ground Workshop held at the George Street Co-op on April 23, 2016.

Chef Enrique Pérez drizzles honey onto a fresh salad during his Common Ground workshop cooking demonstration.

Chef Enrique Pérez gives a cooking demonstration during the kickoff Common Ground workshop held on April 23, 2016 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. This was the first in a series of community cooking workshops held collaboratively throughout 2016.

Highland Park resident George Heibel presents a community seminar in collaboration with the Raíces EcoCulture program on advanced agriculture techniques he learned about on an exchange trip to Guatemala.

George Heibel presents a slideshow and talk on the variety of agricultural techniques he learned about while on an exchange in Guatemala.

The workshop "Reflections on Advanced Agriculture Techniques" was held at the Highland Park Environmental Center, presented by Highland Park resident George Heibel.

Presenter George Heibel and participants of his community seminar "Reflections on Advanced Agriculture Techniques in Guatemala"

In his talk, "Reflections on Advanced Agriculture Techniques", Highland Park resident George Heibel shares stories and explanations of agricultural methods used by farmers in Guatemala.

George Heibel presents slideshow on the variety of agricultural techniques he learned about while on an exchange in Guatemala.
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