While Kathryn Yeomans (The Farmers Feast) loves to create popup restaurant events, where she’s able to be like “cinderella at the ball” having a restaurant for one night, she admits she also has to have a full-time job. For Yeoman’s, that’s teaching basic cooking classes at some of the local farmers markets. And, since she loves being surrounded by farmers and fresh food, it’s a great fit to be a farmers market chef, and culinary instructor.
Yeoman’s teaches people how to cook with whole ingredients, something she sees as somewhat of a lost art. As Yeoman’s explains in the video, required home economics classes no longer exist in the public schools, and with the frenetic pace of modern life, how do people learn how to cook? For sure, some take to cooking natively without much difficulty, but if you think about what’s often entailed, it can be a daunting task just where to begin, especially with the ever-changing variety of fresh foods offered at the farmers market.
Most of the videos featured on Cooking Up a Story were produced, filmed, and edited by Rebecca Gerendasy. Fred Gerendasy contributed as a writer to many of the posts and occasionally as the interviewer. Visit Rebecca Gerendasy Clay – Art and Fred Gerendasy Photography to see their current work.