Healthy Young Cooks

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Bosco

You Can Cook have been successful in receiving funding to run cookery classes for young people in the Peebles and Innerliethen area for 2012. Funding is for organising 4 programmes on healthy cooking and are addressed to young people between 12-18 years old. Each programme will consist of 5 workshops and some of the topics covered are; light snacks, planning, budgeting skills, store cupboard, cooking with leftovers, cakes and bread.

These workshops are designed to be fun and interactive and will be held during the year in venues across Peebles and Innerleithen.

If any youth groups and organisations wish to know more about the project, please contact us on 0845-224-0896 or email us.

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What is Social Enterprise?

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Bosco

Bosco gave a talk at Borders College on the 24th October 2011. The topic was, What is Social Enterprise?.

It was the first event organised by the college and was aimed at about 75 students from the business studies department.

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‘Celebrating Social Enterprise’ Parliamentary Reception Nov’2011

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Bosco

The annual ‘Celebrating Social Enterprise’ Parliamentary Reception, to be held on Tuesday 15th November from 6-8pm at the Scottish Parliament. This event is kindly sponsored by The Wise Group, Social Enterprise Academy and Link Group.
You Can Cook was one of the exhibitors at the event and it was attended by over 250 people from all sectors of the economy.

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Tweedgreen Cookery Workshops

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Bosco

Tweedgreen

All the sessions will take place at the Peebles community centre (Drill Hall) on a Wednesday from 7pm – 8.30pm.

2nd November 2011 – Cookery Workshop – Fish & Tabbouleh by Aiveen Ryan

9th November 2011 – Baking Workshop – A piece of cake by Sam Phipps. The all-in-one method for chocolate, lemon or vanilla sponge.

16th November 2011 – Cookery Workshop – Bulgarian Veggie Dishes by Iana Bejaniyska

23rd November 2011 – Cookery Workshop – Balkan Lamb for Dinner by Iana Bejaniyska

Please contact us by email or phone to confirm a place. Children are welcome.

http://tweedgreen.org/

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India files biopiracy lawsuit against Monsanto

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Bosco

For the first time ever, a country – India – is accusing a multinational company of “bio-piracy”. That means stealing indigenous plants, and then trying to develop genetically modified versions of them, without giving any compensation back to the local people or nation where the plant originally came from.

For more information please visit the following websites below.

India vs. Monsanto: seeds of discord

Bio-piracy in India

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Bosco Santimano will be speaking at Nourish Scotland Annual Conference in Glasgow

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Bosco

YOU CAN COOK Executive Director Bosco Santimano will be attending the Nourish Scotland annual conference in Glasgow on the 1st October 2011. The event is a 2 day conference and has attracted a host of Speakers, organisations and individuals from the food and health sector.
Bosco will be speaking at 2 workshops on the 1st October 2011. Please see details below.

11.30am – Low Income Communities – Increasing Uptake of Local Food

Bosco will run this workshop with Ann Gibson from Community Food and Health. Bosco will be sharing his experience with participants on YOU CAN COOK’s successful engagement with low income communities and how YOU CAN COOK as an organisation inspires, promotes and creates awareness of local food among low income communities in Scotland.

3.15pm – Social Enterprise

Bosco will share his vision for the future of Scotland on being self reliant, sustainable and a fair and just society through running a Social Enterprise!

For more details about this conference please visit Nourish Scotland

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Cookery & Baking Workshops

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Bosco

You Can Cook are organising a cookery and baking class in Peebles. These sessions are provided free to the community as part of our ethos being a social enterprise. All the sessions will take place at the Peebles community centre (Drill Hall) on a Wednesday from 7pm – 8.30pm.

Please note that you have to book and confirm a place as its on a first come first served basis.

The session will be as follows;

19th October 2011 – Cookery Workshop Theme – Quick & Easy Delicious Family Meals by Aiveen Ryan

26th October 2011 – Baking Workshop – High Rise Bread – A hands on introduction to the joys of kneading by Sam Phipps

Please contact us by email or phone to confirm a place. Children are welcome.

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Biggest Nutrition Mistakes and How To Avoid Them

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Bosco

A Must Watch!

Dr. Patrick Purdue is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine and practices in Seminole, Florida. He is nationally board certified in acupuncture, as well as certified in homotoxicology (an advanced, modern approach to homeopathic medicine.) He has completed extensive post-graduate education in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), TCM gynecology and internal medicine, nutrition, naturopathic medicine, as well as many other areas of medicine, and has taught classes in TCM gastroenterology and prolotherapy (an injection protocol to treat chronic joint pain.) Join KC Craichy, Founder & CEO of Living Fuel, as he interviews Dr. Purdue about the importance of nutrition to optimal health.

Video Link: Biggest Nutrition Mistakes and How To Avoid Them

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Healthy Eating Workshops in Lamancha Hub from Sep’ 2011

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Bosco

Lamancha Hub will be hosting 3 programmes on healthy cooking for the community from Sep’2011 onwards. Each programme will consists of 5 workshops tackling various health and food issues.

All workshops will be delivered by You Can Cook.

Please contact Lamancha Hub for more details: http://www.lamanchahub.org.uk/index.php

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You Can Cook will deliver Healthy Cooking Workshops in Tweeddale on behalf of Tweedgreen in the Autumn 2011

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Bosco

You Can Cook has been given the green light to deliver a series or cookery workshops in and around Tweeddale in the autumn of 2011.
The workshops will be open to the community and topics covered will be healthy eating, budgeting skills, leftovers, seasonal and local produce.

Please visit Tweedgreen website for more details at http://tweedgreen.org/

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