Even the older kids have to learn through doing. Judith Schoonover is another enthusiastic backer of what Potowmack's cooking up. As an occupational therapist, I'm excited about the sensory aspects of cooking, it's something you can taste and smell, touch. There's a lot of learning that can be built into cooking. I've been an OT for 26 years and the whole point of my curriculum is function.
Cooking is a very functional activity.
We eat to survive, we eat for pleasure, we eat for comfort. You can measure with cooking, you can count with cooking, you can do color identification. And there's a side benefit to Potowmack's cooking. We get a lot of kids eating things they wouldn't normally eat because it's social, it's contextual and they see their peers doing it.