Teaching Kitchen

The teaching kitchen space is a state-of-the-art kitchen owned and operated by the Nourish Program through the UT Health Houston School of Public Health’s Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living.

The Nourish Program provides a unique training ground for students, healthcare professionals, and community members from Texas and nationwide. This first-of-its-kind initiative educates and equips participants with the tools, knowledge, and hands-on experience necessary to prevent and address nutrition-related health conditions and to integrate culinary medicine into medical and healthcare practice with a ‘seed to plate to prevention’ approach. Through hands-on, evidence-based classes, The Nourish Program shows people how to grow, prepare, and promote food that encourages lifelong health and well-being.

The teaching kitchen space will be utilized for 240 students during the week-long “Transition to Clerkship” course as well as one day during the “Transition to Residency” elective course.

Early, practical exposure is crucial, as recent literature supports that hands-on culinary medicine curricula outperform traditional didactic methods in preparing future doctors for chronic disease prevention and management.