Cooking demonstration at farmers market
Healthy Chef Shell will demonstrate how to cook with fresh ingredients at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 7, at the Waupaca Farmers Market, 205 W. Fulton St.
Participants will can sample the food when she is finished. Recipes will be available to take home.
Chef Shelly Platten is a professional culinarian, instructor, personal chef and owner of Healthy Chef Shell.
When she is not working with schools and corporations on promoting healthy eating or teaching public cooking classes, she is working with individuals in their homes to feel confident in the kitchen.
As an adjunct instructor for Fox Valley Technical College, Platten also teaches culinary classes to various at-risk populations.
Find her at healthychefshell.com, or “Healthy Chef Shell” on Facebook and Instagram.
The Waupaca Farmers Market will also offer an extra SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) incentive on this Saturday during the demo.
For those who attend the chef demo and purchase market tokens of any amount with their SNAP EBT card or show their WIC check at the information booth, the Waupaca Farmers Market will provide vouchers for the ingredients so that they can make the meal at home.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article had the wrong date for the demonstration.