Community Dinner: Filipino Homecooking (Second Seating)

Once a month, we set our tables and open our doors to the community for a simple, shared meal. We work with our favorite ingredients, recipes, and chefs to bring you our most creative and delicious ideas. July's meal comes from Theresa Salcedo and Michelle McKenzie.

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chicken adobo

pinakbet

garlic fried rice

Theresa Salcedo is 18 Reason's Program Assistant. A native of Virginia, Theresa's curiosity in food was nurtured by her family, which includes talented cooks, farmers, gardeners, and fishermen. Since moving to the Bay Area in 2013, Theresa has been a passionate volunteer with both our 18th Street events and Cooking Matters program. When not in the kitchen or at the farmers' market, Theresa practices yoga and meditation, and spends hours in bookstores and at Ocean Beach. Being far away from home, cooking Filipino food brings her back to her mom's kitchen and she looks forward to sharing it with you.

Michelle McKenzie is 18 Reason’s Program Director and Chef. She has a knack for making simple food seem special and is full of amazing tips for making every meal memorable. Michelle’s food seems at once healthy and hedonistic, elegant and effortless, and always attainable. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in nutrition and a minor in biochemistry, giving her a deep understanding of food properties and their complex implications within the human body. She later graduated from The Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts, where she immersed herself in health-supportive cuisine prepared from whole, organic and seasonal foods. Since then, Michelle has worked at some of the best restaurants in the country and, most recently, spent five years directing NextCourse's Eat Ur Veggies program at Mission High School. Her cookbook, Wilder, will be published by Roost Books in June 2016.