Cooking with Kindness:

I. Introduction

Every year we celebrate our Intramural, and every Intramural each organizations of different colleges has to require a T-shirt with the organization's design for each members. I was belong to Le Cercle Culinaire's organization which is one of the majors of Hospitality Management that focuses on the field of Foods and Beverages. So as Food and Beverage major we must came up with a design that is related on our degree. The committees of our organization came up with the design, it has a tagline "Cook Food with Kindness", a tagline which our chef really confused to understand that was there such thing as "Cooking with Kindness"? Now my fellow classmates started to search something about this tagline. Does there's such thing as "Cooking with Kindness"? or these words were just made up just to have a tagline design?


II. Related Literatures

As I go into research about the "Cooking with Kindness" I realize that cooking with kindness have a great impact on those people who love to eat and those people who loves to create. Base on my understanding about the article "Cooking with Kindness: An Interview with Miami Spice 2015 Chef Timon Balloo" he doesn't say anything about "cooking with kindness" but rather what he did was cook food with kindness. His actions speaks louder than words. The way he prepare food for the people is the existence of what we call cooking with kindness. He also used his skills as chef to help children properly guided by the daily nutrients  from the food that they eat. The No Kid Hungry network is made up of many people: citizens, government officials, and business leaders. They work to make sure that kids have access to healthy food. They want to provide better school breakfast, and better summer meals. The most important thing for him is to cook together as a family and try to eat fresh.

Here also an article that inspires me that cooking with kindness really exist. An article about " Cooking with Kindness: A conversation with Joe Armato". Joe Armato is a certified dietitian. As a certified dietitian, Joe's responsibilities included the oversight of the menus and the purchasing and preparation of the food. Dietitians ensure the nutritional value of the meals and that individual client's nutritional need are met. He have the full autonomy to get in touch with the doctors, break down the composition of food and calories in accordance to the doctor's specification. Although often, Joe observes in the hall dietary problems that must be addressed by the doctor, and make recommendation to the doctor on a specific course of dietary action. In addition to being very involved with the patient's health, he also cooks during one mealtime a day. This things that he had done to his patients and co-workers really make sense that he doesn't just cook for people to eat but rather he cook food for people to get healthy again. On the other hand although Joe is a dietitians, he does not restrict himself from foods that he, himself, enjoys, other than fast food and soda, but he feels that both of these have too much fat or sugar and doing without them live a lot longer."I think you can eat mostly what you want, and when you want. However, everything must be in balance". These were the words according from him.

Another article that inspires me was the "Cooking with Kindness: ESL Academy Students Reach Out to Denver Homeless Shelter". This articles talks about the students of ESL Academy where they made a program for those students whose homes as far away from China, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Vietnam have to investigate local homeless shelter that needs assistance. These students planned and prepared homemade dishes base on their own family recipes.They also felt it was important to encourage the children’s literary development and organized a children’s book drive to collect books for the shelter’s library. The students were given a tour of the facilities, where they learned more about the shelter’s ongoing needs; future service projects are being planned. At the the end of a delicious dinner and the evening’s activities, student Hussin Alshawaf summed up the international students’ group experience, “We have all been blessed tonight."


III.Conclusion

Base of the articles that I had read about the tagline "Cooking with Kindness" I can really conclude that there is such thing as cooking with kindness. Cooking without kindness is just pure cooking, you just cooked the food with the purpose of someone will eat it.Cooking with kindness can really make sense that you have a certain goal to achieve that if this goal can't be achieved you feel disappointment. Cooking is not just letting people eat your dish, it has to be filled with kindness so people can really appreciate the effort you had made while cooking your dishes.