Cooking For Cancer Patients, Teens Learn More Than Recipes

Source: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/04/01/472693610/cooking-for-cancer-patients-teens-learn-more-than-recipes?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=thesalt

Teen volunteers at the Ceres Community Project meet up after school to cook up healthful meals for patients at local hospitals.

Teen volunteers at the Ceres Community Project meet up after school to cook up healthful meals for patients at local hospitals.

Kim Stuffelbeam/Ceres Community Project

It all started with a simple request. In 2006, Cathryn Couch was working as a chef, making home-delivery meals for clients. One day, a friend called and asked: Did Couch have any cooking jobs for her teenage daughter? She didn’t, but the friend persisted. So Couch eventually came up with a project: making meals and delivering them to a local homeless center.

After seeing how excited and proud her friend’s daughter was after making the meals, Couch decided to replicate their lesson on a grander scale. That’s how, in 2007, the Ceres Community Project was born.

Named for the Roman goddess of agriculture and nurturing, the Bay Area-based program recruits teen volunteers to cook healthful, all-organic meals and deliver them to local patients with cancer and oth…

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