Introduction to Mediterranean Eating for Families

Build kitchen confidence as your family cooks Mediterranean-inspired dishes with expert guidance at 4Roots Farm.
About this Event

Introduction to Mediterranean Eating for Families

Welcome to a fun, engaging, and hands-on culinary experience where families cook alongside AdventHealth’s Dr. Angela Fals, Pediatric Board-Certified Obesity Medicine physician and Certified Culinary Medicine Specialist, and Allison Harrell, Registered Dietitian and Certified Culinary Medicine Specialist.

You’ll learn kitchen basics like recipe reading, knife skills, measuring, and simple techniques, while preparing Mediterranean-inspired dishes designed to be realistic for busy family life. Bring your appetite, build confidence, and leave with skills you’ll be ready to use each time you prepare a meal.

What You’ll Experience

• Learn kitchen basics including: recipe reading, knife skills, measuring, and time-saving tips.
• Harvest herbs from 4Roots raised garden beds.
• Hands-on creation and sampling of flavorful pasta sauces.
• Conversation with Dr. Fals and Allison on how food creates the foundations for health and wellness.
• Guided 4Roots Farm tour.

Tasting Menu

• Salad with red wine vinegarette dressing
• Spaghetti with four different sauce combinations
• • Meat
  • Meat and Vegetable
  • Meat and Lentils
  • Lentils

Event Details

📆 Date & Time: Friday, July 31st | 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
📍 Location: 4Roots Farm Campus, 1101 N John Young Pkwy, Orlando, FL
🎟️ Ticket Price: $100 per family - one parent/caregiver + one child (under 18 years old); $30 for each additional person (parent or child)

About the Culinary Health Institute

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

We also offer:

• Cooking with Confidence (Level 1): A demonstration-style introduction to essential cooking skills and an approachable plant-based recipe with a local chef, home cook, or nutrition specialist.
• Food as Medicine (Level 2): A local 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.