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Culture Kitchen cooks up ethnic exchange CULINARY CLASSES BRING TOGETHER IMMIGRANT-WOMEN CHEFS AND FOOD LOVERS By Sue Dremann
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bby Sturges didn’t cook while growing up in Columbus, Ohio, but now her life is filled with the aromas, flavors and sensations of food: savory chicken with Indian spices, Vietnamese caramelized catfish and stir-fried garlicky greens. Sturges and Stanford classmate Jennifer Lopez turned a graduate thesis project into a business with
a social mission: connecting lowerincome immigrant women who are skilled in cooking authentic, ethnic cuisines with food lovers who want to learn the culinary arts. Their fledgling business, Culture Kitchen, was part of angel investor Dave McClure’s 500 Startups Accelerator program in Mountain View this summer. Culture Kitchen serves up cooking classes with a side order of cultural exchange. Women who have a
passion for food, its history and culture teach their family recipes and traditions at Deborah’s Palm and Lucie Stern Community Center in Palo Alto, at Whole Foods Market in Los Altos and in San Francisco. The women, who go by their first names, come from Thailand, Nicaragua, Colombia, Ukraine, Vietnam, Iraq, Bangladesh, India, France, Taiwan and Mexico. They range in age from their 20s to their Continued on next page
Baraka Abedalhadi talks about cooking experiences she had in Iraq. Her cooking class at Whole Foods in Los Altos focused on a traditional Iraqi dish.
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