Cooking with Confidence: Anyone Can Grow a Soup Cooking Demo

Presented by 4Root's Culinary Health Institute at The Center for Health & Wellbeing

Build your kitchen confidence through our Cooking with Confidence culinary demonstration series! 🧑‍🍳

Join Erik Amnott of O-Town Compost at the Center for Health & Wellbeing for a demonstration on transforming simple root vegetables—well suited for Central Florida growing—into a flavorful, hearty, plant-forward soup.

During this interactive, demonstration-style class, you’ll learn essential knife skills and techniques that elevate simple ingredients into a nourishing meal while enjoying a small tasting of the demonstrated dish:

🍲 Featured Recipe: A Roasted Vegetable Soup in a Fragrant Vegetable Broth, Served with Toasted Sourdough Bread

About Cooking with Confidence
Cooking with Confidence is our introductory culinary health class designed to teach ways to transform your kitchen into a setting for flavor, confidence, and health. This is a demonstration-style experience where a local chef, home cook, or nutrition specialist prepares a plant-based dish while teaching cooking and preparation techniques such as refining knife skills, proper sanitation, or kitchen management.

Guests engage with the host throughout the demonstration, ask questions in real time, and learn key nutrition insights and cooking techniques and leave with a copy of the recipe to recreate at home.

Whether you’re starting your healthy plant-based eating journey or looking for ways to refresh your skills, this event will open the door to more confidence, creativity, and inspiration in the kitchen!

What You’ll Experience:

Live culinary demonstration by Erik
Hands-on practice of knife skills used to prepare ingredients
Learn the process of layering flavors
Proper handling and measuring techniques for optimal flavor
Conversation with Erik while sampling the final recipe
Interactive Q&A with Erik

Event Details:

📆 Date & Time: Tuesday, March 17th | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
📍 Location: Center for Health & Wellbeing, 2005 Mizell Ave #800, Winter Park, FL
🎟️ Ticket Price: $35 per guest

About the Culinary Health Institute at 4Roots Farm

The Culinary Health Institute (CHI) is an initiative of 4Roots in partnership with AdventHealth, Florida Blue, and Gordon Food Service. CHI works to transform community health by advancing food as medicine and whole-person care through education, clinical innovation, and research. Learn more at 4rootsfarm.org/CHI.

Our Monthly Class Series

Cooking with Confidence is our Level 1 class: a demonstration-style introduction to essential cooking skills and approachable plant-based recipes, led by a local chef, home cook, or nutrition specialist.

For those ready to go deeper, we also offer:

Food as Medicine (Level 2): A chef-and-physician or dietitian-led, three-course demonstration exploring the connection between nutrition and health, with tastings of each course.
Harvest to Table (Level 3): Our premium hands-on class, where guests cook alongside a chef, engage with a physician or dietitian, and enjoy a full farm-to-table culinary experience.

Each series is themed around a monthly culinary or nutrition topic, allowing guests to continue building knowledge and skills over time.

March 17: Cooking with Confidence: Anyone Can Grow a Soup @ Center for Health & Wellbeing

Presented by 4Roots' Culinary Health Institute