Coming Soon: The Foodist Cooking Workshops
Rick Riley, The Foodist, at the kitchen island at Mezzacello Urban Farm.
The key to cooking with Rick Riley, The Foodist, at Mezzacello is to understand the basics of our strategy to cooking and innovating food. It starts with fresh food and ingredients - homegrown when we can — and surprising flavors and combos. It moves into whimsy, curiosity, and a commitment to always being better. And finally, we finish it off with a passion for sustainability and growing together.
What Are The Foodist: Cooking Workshops?
Simple workshops at first, but still diverse. We want to start with the basics by cooking what we know we can produce here at the farm and keeping the recipes simple, easy to learn, and scalable.
Rick is a classic chef for the home. He has also been in the Marines, a father of a growing family, and the minister of several churches. He knows how to cook no matter what the scale.
The workshops will be using the new kitchen facilities at Mezzacello Urban Farm and the new attached classroom space that is just outside the kitchen and between the gardens. There we will socialize and discuss the recipes planned, gather resources, and start working at the three planned stations
Two Hours, One Theme, Five People
Each workshop will be about two hours long. That gives us time to meet and share expectations. After that, we can start prepping for the meal ahead. Most of the basic Farm Fresh, Pantry-friendly recipes take around 30-45 minutes. With four ovens we can make that work.
Each workshop has a theme. Easy and impactful, simple but scalable, appetizer or entree or both, seasonal ingredients, and inside and outside gas grill, fresh made and al fresco, cold season baking and cooking, and all are designed for ease of learning and optimizing health, nutrition, and flavor.
Each workshop can only accommodate five people. All meals are designed to be pantry-friendly and capable of feed at a minimum of six people. We are a sustainable farm, not an industrial kitchen! That’s a lot of cooking and food.
One of our FAVORITE shows is “The Great British Cooking Show”. We love the ways families come together to support the bakers on that show. Therefore when weather permits, workshop attendees are ENCOURAGED to invite their families and loved ones to Mezzacello to sample your food in the shaded Hornbeam allee.
There is a $20 stocking fee to provide water, tea, juice, compostable cups, plates, bowls, napkins, take away containers, and eating utensils. Families are welcome to take extra food home OR share it with the farm animals, thre worms and the crickets!
There is a limit of four people per attendees. We are a sustainable Urban Farm. Making food to celebrate life and learning is not sustainable if we can’t share it.
Image Used for Reference ONLY. Courtesy of Netflix and Love Productions, which is owned by Sky.
The First Two Workshops
We are hoping to kick these off in October. The kitchen is being retrofitted now. Two new ovens and an eight station oven are being installed. The attached steel and glass pergola will be installed AFTER the new double glass transomed door is installed. Please consider joining our newsletter or following us on Social Media @Mezzacello. We’d like to share some of these adventures on our social media, but that is NOT mandatory.
Family-Structured Workshops
When we get these started, it is a goal of ours to offer them in conjunction with our STEM Kids workshops. Bring your kids and let them explore fresh food, nutrition, wellness, vet tech, robotics, coding, automation, 3D printing, or leadership workshops. Everyone gets to be involved and we grow in all of our unique ways. Follow our Events Calendar!
