Event

Meet Cooking Matters: A FREE Cooking Class

Meet Cooking Matters: a FREE Cooking Class
at 18 Reasons
Sunday, October 27, 4:00-5:00pm
RSVP required: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/455592

Get to know our Cooking Matters program, learn how you can volunteer and get involved, and meet others interested in engaging communities through cooking. Claudia Ossa Paradise will be teaching her favorite recipes from her Cooking Matters classes. Claudia is an 18 Reasons board member and has taught 8 6-week free Cooking Matters cooking and nutrition classes to over 100 people. Learn to make Claudia's yummy Latin Turkey Kofte with Tsatziki over brown rice with a gorgeous Rainbow Kale Salad.

Claudia is the founder of RealFoodies, Inc. RealFoodies is a seed stage start-up that is cryogenically frozen. She writes a food blog and educates while entertaining via videos that live on her blog and YouTube Channel . Claudia's passion for food and people was born during childhood summers in Colombia eating chicken feet and chitlins and blossomed into a great passion for food and culture after bouncing from New Mexico to New York and Spain. Prior to RealFoodies, Claudia ran an advertising and design business. She studied design at LMU. She worked on fancy national ad campaigns for fancy ad agencies for years before defecting to work in her pj's in the confines of her comfy pad in Southern California. When she wasn't running on beach path or eating at all of her favorite strip mall-based food spots, she provided creative services for clients ranging from tropical plant wholesalers to Nike and Direct TV. Claudia still whets her creative appetite by consulting on good brands. Claudia has taught 8, 6-week Cooking Matters classes to over 100 people. Claudia lives in San Francisco with her husband Bob, daughter Lola and dog, Frieda.