A Glasgow organisation has teamed up with a charity to bring free cooking classes to the East End next month.
The Glasgow Community Food Network has partnered up with Unity Social Kitchen to run a four-week block of free cooking classes in Parkhead’s Drill Hall Pantry.
The classes will take place every Wednesday throughout the month of October, running from October 5 until Wednesday, October 26.
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Each class will run from 11am till 1pm and will be led by Unity Social Kitchen chef Angus, who will teach participants a couple of recipes each session using locally grown food.
Organiser Jac Reichel said: "I’m very excited.
“Having a space to cook together is something really nice to do to bring people together around food.
“I’ve done sessions with the pantry before, a few months ago and the participants loved it and that’s what inspired us to think we could offer it to the wider community.”
The cooking classes aim to enable the people of Glasgow to learn how to eat more sustainably, healthy, and affordably, and inspire people to eat more food from scratch.
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The classes will also introduce participants to the pantry, showing them how the service can be used and what it can offer to contribute to an affordable and pro-environmental lifestyle.
Jac said: “With the cost of living, Glasgow needs to learn to cook for itself.
“Lots of us have lost those skills and with people not being able to afford it, we want to focus on how we can help people to cook simple, healthy food for less.
“It’s becoming more and more obvious that we need more spaces where people can access healthy but affordable food.”
The classes will also focus on teaching mindfulness when it comes to food waste reduction.
Attendees will learn to use every part of a vegetable and preserve food, how to cook a lot of food at once and use it for longer, and how to become aware of what they’re putting into their bodies.
Participants will be able to eat what they cook with other participants at the end of each class or take it home.
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