Culinary Medicine Collaborative

In 2017, we began working with the clinical nutrition team at CHOC Children’s to bring our “Fierce Foods” curriculum into the hospital setting through an innovative mobile teaching kitchen cart. In 2018, we partnered with Willett Children’s of Savannah and the University of Arizona, along with CHOC Children’s, to create the first Culinary Medicine Collaborative for piloting new recipes, program guidelines, and tailored curricula specifically for children’s hospitals. Today, we are growing the program across the country, expanding recipes, developing new nutrition science lesson plans, and revising guidelines for different hospital contexts.

The goal of the Culinary Medicine Collaborative is to produce an evidence-based, practical and accessible culinary medicine program that’s appropriate for the pediatric hospital setting and is also simple to share and expand to other partners and institutions. Throughout 2022 the CMC is testing and producing an “out of the box” culinary medicine program designed specifically for the hospital setting. We’re so excited to convene this community of collaborators to grow the movement for culinary medicine in pediatric healthcare.

Our current Culinary Medicine Collaborative partners are:

• Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC)

• The University of Arizona

• Willett Children’s of Savannah