Research
TKC’s Research efforts and initiatives are led by the Culinary Nutrition Group at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Featured Publication
This perspective paper summarizes the basic principles of teaching kitchens, their conceptual origins, preliminary evidence of effectiveness, recent growth, and potential for impact as educational classrooms and translational research laboratories. This paper serves as an excellent introduction for readers new to the concept of teaching kitchens, offering valuable insights into their benefits and applications.
Nutrients Special Issue
A Special Issue of the journal Nutrients titled “How can health and wellness promotion strategies which include nutrition education alongside hands-on cooking be organized, evaluated, and optimized for maximal impact?” and guest-edited by TKC Founder and Senior Advisor Dr. David Eisenberg, invited research papers related to teaching kitchens and the concept of food as medicine.
Nutrients is a peer-reviewed, open access journal of human nutrition published semimonthly online by MDPI. Published abstracts in Nutrients are highly visible as they are indexed within Scopus, SCIE (Web of Science), PubMed, MEDLINE, PMC, Embase, PubAg, AGRIS, and other databases. This Special Issue belongs to the section “Nutrition Methodology & Assessment” and has published a significant number of manuscripts, many of which are from TKC Organization Members.
2024 TKC Research Paper of the Year Award
Congratulations to the team at the University of Utah (TKC Organization Member), recipients of the 2024 TKC Research Paper of the Year Award! Their winning paper, “Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Bilingual Nutrition Education Program in Partnership with a Mobile Health Unit,” highlights the power of community-based teaching kitchen programming to improve participants’ nutrition knowledge, culinary skills, and overall diet quality. By integrating bilingual nutrition education with hands-on culinary instruction through a mobile health partnership, the study demonstrates meaningful gains in self-efficacy and health behavior change. This work further strengthens the evidence base for culturally responsive, accessible teaching kitchen models as effective strategies for advancing community health.
