How a cooking class paired with a free bag of ingredients creates a recipe for healthy food access

By: Brenda Hernandez

Outlets: Dallas Free Press

Published: August 19, 2025

Words: 1,764

Last Updated: 11 months, 1 week ago

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The teaching kitchen inside the West Dallas Multipurpose Center is lively on a Monday evening. Chicken and daikon radishes simmer in curry, and people chat amiably before they’re interrupted by the voice of Liz Espie, a Texas A&M AgriLife Institute volunteer.

“It’s smelling yummy, right?” Espie says.

All 25 attendees are gathered for Local Kitchen, a weekly eight-part course that teaches them …

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