Class Report

Easy Vegan Cooking With Brainfood

By Heidi Zheng (1 June 2014)

Teacher: Brainfood Community MVPs
Location: Brainfood Innovation Center
Documentarian: Heidi Zheng
Date: May 20, 2014

Brainfood Community MVPs empower members of the D.C. community to be educated eaters, one workshop at a time. The eight-month MVP program teaches high schoolers to develop and facilitate hands-on cooking classes. KCDC collaborated with Brainfood to bake easy-to-make vegan cookies.

Avocado is a great substitute for eggs, butter, sour cream, and other dairy products.

Or, y’know, guacamole.

“Is this what an ‘adult mixer’ is?”

Yummies in the oven!

On to the second recipe.

Real ladies powder not their noses, but cookies.

CALLED IT.

Leftovers, all bagged up.

Heidi Zheng is a student at the University of Rochester, where she majors in religious studies and prepares for her certificate in literary translation. A woman of letters in the making, she is utterly smitten with words, and kittens. And mittens. But mostly, words.