Cooking with Confidence: Simply Pesto
About this Event
Cooking with Confidence: Simply Pesto
Presented by 4Root's Culinary Health Institute at 4Roots Farm
Build your kitchen confidence through our Cooking with Confidence culinary demonstration series! 🧑🍳
Join 4Roots Farm, Isabella Fry, as she demonstrates how to make a vibrant and flavor-filled pesto. You will learn creative ways to use fresh pesto:
- Dip
- Dressing
- Marinade
- Spread
- And much more...
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!
Meet Your Instructor
Isabella Fry
Isabella is an environmental engineering student and agro-culinary enthusiast who enjoys the relationship between food, culture, and traditional preservation techniques.
What to Expect
- Hands-on learning experience designed by the chef/instructor
- Learn the process of layering flavors
- Proper handling and measuring for optimal flavor
- Conversations and Q&A with Chef while sampling the final recipe
Event Details
📍 Location: 4Roots Farm Campus – Education Building: 1101 N. John Young Parkway, Orlando, FL 32804
📅 Date: July 8 | 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.
Our Monthly Class Series
Cooking with Confidence is our Level 1 class: a demonstration-style introduction to essential cooking skills and approachable plant-based recipes, led by a local chef, home cook, or nutrition specialist.
For those ready to go deeper, we also offer:
- Food as Medicine (Level 2): A chef-and-physician or dietitian-led, three-course demonstration exploring the connection between nutrition and health, with tastings of each course.
- Harvest to Table (Level 3): Our premium hands-on class, where guests cook alongside a chef, engage with a physician or dietitian, and enjoy a full farm-to-table culinary experience.
Each series is themed around a monthly culinary or nutrition topic, allowing guests to continue building knowledge and skills over time.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 39.19
