Cook Well Berkeley
For all things cooking on and around campus, Cook Well Berkeley is your portal to healthy cooking resources, recipes, shopping tips, and more.
Recipes & Resources
Resources for Eating Locally
Community Resources
- Basic Needs: Food Access & Assistance During COVID-19
- Free Meals for Children
- Restaurants offering no-contact pick-up or delivery
- East Bay, including pantry supplies
- Berkeley Student Food Collective: A student-run co-op dedicated to providing fresh, healthy, environmentally sustainable, and ethically produced food at affordable prices.
Farmers' Markets
- Berkeley - Ecology Center
- Berkeley Farmers' Markets Map
- Other Bay Area Farmers' Markets: Search the Local Harvest website.
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
- Sign up for a "share" of a farm's produce to receive regular deliveries (or local pickup). Some CSAs also offer additional farm products such as eggs or honey. Learn more and explore CSA options near you on the Local Harvest website
Web Resources
- Storing Fruits and Vegetables without using plastic (Ecology Center)
- Can you tell if a food is safe to eat by smelling it? (Nutrition Action)
- Edible Education for the Home Classroom (the Edible Schoolyard Project)
- Shopper's Guide to Pesticides - Created by the Environmental Working Group and updated yearly, this guide shows the produce items with the highest and lowest amounts of pesticides.
- Meat Eater's Guide to Climate Change and Health, Environmental Working Group, 2011
Are you looking for a fun way to connect with your colleagues? We offer a 1-hour or 1 1/2-hour virtual "cook-along" for work units and staff organizations by request. The only cost of the class is the cost of groceries. See the video above for a preview.
Check with your work unit/department or staff organization to find out if there is enough interest (minimum 10 people). If yes, have one person complete the request form. You can request the time of day that works best for your group.
We will do our best to accommodate your requests.