Fork Life & Spoon

Dear summer,
Your fruits are just the best.
Love,
Jamie

Menus are up on forklifeandspoon.com ❤️

KIDS CLASSES What are dry ingredients? Why do we incorporate them at the end? What is the result when we measure in volume vs. weight? Reading and understanding recipes written by others is a critical step to developing our own creations. Not to mention the opportunity to practice math, vocabulary and new techniques.

Classes for age 9-13 will start up again in September 🍩 Watch this space for dates!

Summer feasting 🌽
I learned from the best.

Lemon + olive oil make such a beautiful couple.

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How does something brown or caramelize and why would you want it to? What happens when you cut something in an unexpected way?
Recipes will get you somewhere but practicing skills will take you anywhere. 🔪

There are still spaces available for the June 7th lunch find the menu on forklifeandspoon.com ♥️

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Jamie Berk

Kids can benefit from developing their confidence in the kitchen, but not every dinner can be a teaching moment. We cannot scaffold skills while multitasking and most family meals are cooked at crunch time.

Find the moment that you can be open to the mess, the mistakes, and the slowing down. Build the skills first, in their own designated time without pressure or the necessity of a result. Suddenly the child who was “in the way” becomes a kid who can truly help get dinner in the table.

Or better yet send them to me😉 the next kids club will be May 24, registration is open on forklifeandspoon.com

Reflective practices are amazingly protective against competition and (unfruitful)comparison.

As I am building more workshops for kids I realize how results focused food can be and am working hard to keep perfectionism out of the kitchen and off of the plate.

This is HARD. They are already wired to rate things in a hierarchical order. I find that for me personally it is a tricky double message to say «  you eat with your eyes first » and « let’s just learn from the process ».

I love beautiful and delicious food and believe aesthetics have their value. All I can hope is that by asking them to question why they like something-and where those preferences come from- that we can keep things curious.

When we sit down after a busy workshop we present our dishes at the table -not to only recap what we did, but also reflect on we might do differently next time. Reflective practices helps us to find opportunities for learning which we might otherwise deem as a failure in the kitchen. Cheers to questioning our expectations of perfection and learning from our experiences.

We had so much fun cooking that I barely managed to get photos of todays workshop. So many fresh flavors to ring in the spring 🌸

Playing with food again this FRIDAY! 🍋
I hope to see some new faces in the kitchen. To reserve your spot at the table

Workshops - Fork Life & Spoon Learn how to prepare simple, beautiful dishes in a relaxed home environment. All menus are designed to create a sensory experience- both in their preparation and enjoyment. Join us to try new ingredients, combine new flavors and practice new techniques! You will share a creative moment and delicious...

Let’s raise the bar for kid cooking programs where students actually can take pride in the skills they are learning instead of working backwards from a desired end result. Trusting that they know how to properly follow a recipe,understand cooking vocabulary, measure a dry ingredient, peel, chop, or work safely at the stove… any one of these skills will give them the confidence to work on their own and feel that their contribution is REAL.

There are classic dangers that come with working in the kitchen. Of course we do not want our kids to get cut or burned. Before they learn skills they first need to be supported to take age appropriate risks and to know when to ask for help. There are a lot of opportunities for safe confidence building when children are ready to take on more responsibility in the kitchen. When we can trust their seriousness, they will want to prove us right.

Don’t bring me flowers, bring me artichokes.

A curiosity driven approach to food helps us to understand and enjoy food in all of its forms.

Playful explorations of color, texture, temperature, smell and even sound help break us out of our routine and inspire us to try something new.

Meals together are a psychosocial exercise. We can have food experiences that trigger deep and vivid emotional responses. It is one of the only moments where we use all of our senses at the same time- anchoring the experience in our memory.

Keeping it colorful on this rainy winter day in Provence! We folded, swooshed, denuded, and smattered in today’s lunch workshop 🍊

Summer’s sunshine stored away in a winter squash. ☀️
Our next lunch workshop menu will be colorful, warming, citrusy and fluffy.
Join us in the kitchen on Friday February 9th!
# cooktogether

A Sunday that was both vibrant and cozy. A bakers dozen of women came together to connect- to themselves and to each other in the wonderful space .

Yoga and fascia massage, meditation and food fun were on the menu for this long awaited collab with and

Cheers to many more!

Un dimanche à la fois vibrant et douillet. Une douzaine de femmes se sont réunies pour se connecter, à elles-mêmes et les unes aux autres, dans l’espace merveilleux de .

Yoga et massage de la fascia, méditation et plaisir culinaire étaient au programme de cette collaboration tant attendue avec et .

Á la prochaine!

Leaving sweet notes for my husband 🥰

Workshop + Lunch
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 9
Puyricard

T- 27 minutes to evening workshop. Now I can get dressed.

All the bark without the bite. 🧄

Roasted garlic- the secret weapon to add dimension to your dish

I always room on my baking sheet for one of these flavor bombs.

An evening of delicious food and wildly interesting people? Yes please!

Come to learn some new winter recipes and play around in the kitchen. Send me a private message to reserve your spot at the table in.

Workshop will last about 3 hours and includes apéro, dinner and drinks 🍷

Warmed hearts and bellies as promised❤️ thank you for cooking with me today!

Bring me salad, not flowers.