Community, Tradition, and Food Bring Health in The Kitchenistas Documentary – Food Tank
The award-winning documentary, The Kitchenistas, follows the lives of women leading a movement in Southern California to reconnect their community to healthy, traditional foods.
Women receive the title Kitchenista when they graduate from Cooking for Salud, a bilingual culinary program at Olivewood Gardens in National City, California. Olivewood Gardens is a nonprofit dedicated to garden and nutrition education. They were designed initially Cooking for Salud to help women bring healthy whole food cooking into their homes.
The Kitchenistas actively engage with their community through events and by speaking at local government meetings to address the National City’s high rates of…