Food Lab Manager Ally Zeitz ’15 preps a foccacia and white bean salad during Cook for Your Life.
The Drexel Food Lab and Cook for Your Life are a perfect match. The Food Lab develops recipes and classes for the cancer-fighting nonprofit, which in return gives Drexel students hands-on experience in the kitchen.
In May, the students of the Food Lab celebrated this partnership at the Academic Bistro with a special dinner drawn from Cook for Your Life Founder Ann Ogden Gaffney’s new cookbook of the same name.
The cookbook features 100 recipes designed to nourish a cancer patient before, during and after treatment. It was nominated for a 2016 James Beard award.
“I tell my students, cooking is about feeding real people,” says Jonathan Deutsch, professor of culinary arts and food science and founder of the Food Lab.
