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CHELSEA, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — A unique community kitchen in Chelsea is celebrating its one-year anniversary.
The non-profit group GreenRoots founded its teaching kitchen a year ago after they transformed an old warehouse into a space for community and cooking. The kitchen hosts free cooking classes several times each week for different age groups and in different languages.
Teaching kitchen coordinator JoJo Emerson said the kitchen is a part of GreenRoots' food justice program.
"The teaching kitchen is a community space where we all come together in order to share food and knowledge but also uplift the community and create some amount of food sovereignty," Emerson said.
Chef Tiara Andress, center, is one of the several chefs who teach in the kitchen. Carl Stevens/WBZ NewsRadio
The kitchen not only hopes to help foster a healthy cooking and eating lifestyle, Emerson said they're hoping it can break down some of the imaginary social barriers built up by the pandemic.
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"Chelsea was one of the hardest hit communities by COVID," Emerson said. "What we've noticed is that folks now are really interested and excited about building community."
GreenRoots posts the schedule for its cooking events at the teaching kitchen here.
WBZ's Carl Stevens (@CarlWBZ) reports.