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The Home Cooking Academy

Dawn Smith will talk about Simple, Fun and Stress-Free ways to stretch your food dollar!
The Home Cooking Academy is a blueprint on how to save valuable dollars, making creative dishes, understanding nutrition and how we can achieve it all on any budget.
The reasoning for creating this academy is to serve the needs of those who would like to understand the essentials of food planning, cooking, nutrition and saving of food dollars. The webinar series that are offered will build knowledge and confidence in executing Healthy and Flavorful Meals.
Description of Smart Shopping:
April 11, 18, 25 and May 2 from 7:30-8:45pm.
The Home Cooking Academy is a blueprint on how to save valuable dollars, making creative dishes, understanding nutrition and how we can achieve it all on any budget.
The reasoning for creating this academy is to serve the needs of those who would like to understand the essentials of food planning, cooking, nutrition and saving of food dollars. The webinar series that are offered will build knowledge and confidence in executing Healthy and Flavorful Meals.
Description of Smart Shopping:
- Nutritious Menu Planning-Planning Healthy and Yummy Meals on a budget. Planning menus that are balanced, healthy and yummy.
- Serving Sizes, Value vs. Cost and Convenience Foods vs. Homemade Foods to Strecth your dollars.
- Creative Shopping - How to create a Shopping list , needed Pantry Items, using Coupons and newspapers and Computer sites.
- Fresh vs. Frozen vs. Canned Foods, when and what to buy. Savings up to 30% of your grocery bill.
- Understanding Meats and Seafood - Different Meats & Seafood ,Various cooking methods, testing for doneness and the best times to buy meats and seafood.
- Variety of Foods -Stretching your Food $
- Preparation, Sanitation of making Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner. Introduction of Entrees, Ethnic Dishes and Creating new dishes with leftovers.
- Various Kitchen Tips
April 11, 18, 25 and May 2 from 7:30-8:45pm.
Dawn A. Smith, Chief Operational Officer
The Thomas Smith Company, L.L.C.
Creator - The Home Cooking Academy
The Thomas Smith Co. LLC is a professional hospitality services and solutions company.
The combination of hospitality industry and academia background meet’s the requirement to deliver exceptional consulting in the hospitality field. During the last 12 years, I have been a Hospitality Management educator, Adjunct Professor, and Online course developer at Tidewater Community College in VA. The Hospitality Program Coordinator for Baltimore City Community College, in Baltimore MD., and Assistant Professor, Norfolk State University VA.
For 20 years, on the Executive Director level in foodservice management, I successfully led the industry leaders Aramark and Sodexho in running their prestigious accounts:
My educational background includes:
Rochester Institute of Technology, -Executive Masters Program in Hospitality Management
Johnson and Wales University, BS Foodservice Management, and AAS Culinary Arts
My passion is food and its enjoyment in life: Extensive traveling and emersion into various cultures: Giving back to society, so others can gain traction and excel.
The combination of hospitality industry and academia background meet’s the requirement to deliver exceptional consulting in the hospitality field. During the last 12 years, I have been a Hospitality Management educator, Adjunct Professor, and Online course developer at Tidewater Community College in VA. The Hospitality Program Coordinator for Baltimore City Community College, in Baltimore MD., and Assistant Professor, Norfolk State University VA.
For 20 years, on the Executive Director level in foodservice management, I successfully led the industry leaders Aramark and Sodexho in running their prestigious accounts:
- Hofstra University, NY
- The Johns Hopkins University, MD
- Mount Vernon College, Washington, DC
- Spelman College, GA
My educational background includes:
Rochester Institute of Technology, -Executive Masters Program in Hospitality Management
Johnson and Wales University, BS Foodservice Management, and AAS Culinary Arts
My passion is food and its enjoyment in life: Extensive traveling and emersion into various cultures: Giving back to society, so others can gain traction and excel.