Culinary Skills Apprenticeship
This 10-week, 160-hour, part-time employment opportunity prepares apprentices for a career in the food industry. Through a combination of classroom, kitchen, and English language classes, graduates will leave with the knowledge and skills needed to continue working in a variety of culinary fields.
The program incorporates hands-on experiential training in our commercial catering kitchen, industry field trips and guest speakers, and workforce skills development. We also empower apprentices to preserve and share their culinary heritage by recording their own recipes and showcasing their diverse stories, cultures, and cuisines with our community and supporters.
Culinary Career Workshops
Need a little support in beginning your culinary career? We are now offering three new, week-long workshops that will provide focused culinary job training services to immigrants, refugees, English language learners, and others who experience barriers to entering the food industry.
Workshops:
- Washington Food Worker Card for the English Language Learner
- Culinary Workforce Development
- Introduction to Starting a Washington Food Business
Each program:
- focuses on a specific aspect of starting a culinary career,
- requires an application and acceptance, but is free to attend,
- will be offered three times per year, in person, at Project Feast’s training kitchen and classroom in Kent,
- includes 4 lunches prepared by our culinary staff,
- is designed for immigrants, refugees, English language learners, and those with cultural barriers to culinary employment/entrepreneurship, but if the eligibility requirements are met, all are welcome and qualified to apply,
- and is intended to support those who do not need, or do not qualify for, the Culinary Skills Apprenticeship Program
Culinary Conversations: English Practice Series
Are you interested in practicing your professional and culinary English with other English language learners on a regular basis? Join us at Project Feast for weekly Culinary Conversations! Improve your language skills, meet new people, build community, and share food cultures and recipes.
The schedule will change quarterly (every 3 months) and will be shared via our website, social media, and newsletter.
Our next Culinary Conversations series will be:
- Tuesdays, for 8 weeks, in person at Project Feast (202 W Gowe St. Kent)
- 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
- April 22, April 29, May 6, May 13, May 20, May 27, June 3rd, June 10th
Details:
- Free to participate, no registration required, walk-ins welcome, come and go as you please
- Learn and practice basic and professional English vocabulary in preparation for the culinary workforce
- Learn and practice commonly used English in the commercial kitchen, such as:
- Safety terms and phrases
- Tools and appliances
- Cooking techniques
- Reading recipes
- Food names and descriptions
- Practice describing your culinary culture and heritage to others in English
- Share food from your culture by bringing a dish to share and writing the recipe in English
Email us with any questions, or to let us know you will be joining (not required): hello@projectfeast.org
Culturally Appropriate Food Assistance
Due to COVID-19, we pivoted our programming to cook emergency meals for immigrant and refugee families and seniors. From April to August 2020, we cooked over 7000 culturally appropriate meals for these communities in need.
