Cooking with Confidence at 4Roots Farm
Presented by 4Root's Culinary Health Institute at 4Roots Farm
Build your kitchen confidence through our Cooking with Confidence culinary demonstration series!
During this interactive, demonstration-style class, you’ll learn essential knife skills and techniques that elevate simple ingredients into a nourishing meal while enjoying a small tasting of the demonstrated dish.
About Cooking with Confidence
Cooking with Confidence is our introductory culinary health class designed to teach ways to transform your kitchen into a setting for flavor, confidence, and health. This is a demonstration-style experience where a local chef, home cook, or nutrition specialist prepares a plant-based dish while teaching cooking and preparation techniques such as refining knife skills, proper sanitation, or kitchen management.
Guests engage with the host throughout the demonstration, ask questions in real time, and learn key nutrition insights and cooking techniques and leave with a copy of the recipe to recreate at home.
Whether you’re starting your healthy plant-based eating journey or looking for ways to refresh your skills, this event will open the door to more confidence, creativity, and inspiration in the kitchen!
What You’ll Experience
- Hands-on learning experience designed by the chef
- Learn the process of layering flavors
- Proper handling and measuring for optimal flavor
- Conversations and Q&A with Chef/Dietician while sampling the final recipe
Event Details
📍 Location: 4Roots Farm Campus – Education Building: 1101 N. John Young Parkway, Orlando, FL 32804
📅 Date: December 9 | 6:00PM – 7:00 PM
🎟️ Ticket Fee: $35
About the Culinary Health Institute at 4Roots Farm
The Culinary Health Institute (CHI) is an initiative of 4Roots in partnership with AdventHealth, Florida Blue, and Gordon Food Service. CHI works to transform community health by advancing food as medicine and whole-person care through education, clinical innovation, and research. Learn more at 4rootsfarm.org/CHI.
Continue Your Culinary Health Journey
This Cooking with Confidence class is part of CHI's monthly culinary education series, designed to offer experiences for every level of interest:
Level 1 | Cooking with Confidence
An approachable, demonstration-style introduction to essential cooking skills and plant-forward recipes led by a local chef, home cook, or nutrition specialist.
Level 2 | Food as Medicine
A chef and physician- or dietitian-led three-course demonstration exploring the connection between food, nutrition, and health, with tastings of each course.
Level 3 | Harvest to Table
Our premium hands-on experience, where guests cook alongside a chef, engage with a physician or dietitian, and enjoy a complete culinary experience.
Each month brings a new culinary or nutrition focus, giving guests the opportunity to continue learning, tasting, and building practical skills for healthier living.