The Skipper Says...

On April 17th, two groups of students participated in a cooking demo at Oakwood Recreation Center in Venice. Chef Tracy Kontos, formerly of Gordon Ramsay’s Master Chef, taught 15 kids (ranging in age from 10-15) how to make healthy, personal pizzas. The students learned how to properly roll dough and dress a pizza to their individual tastes, that veggies are not scary and even realized their love for anchovies. In addition, they learned how to effectively communicate in a kitchen to the ensure safety of all chefs. 

With the success of this cooking demo, we are continuing our efforts by offering a free six week course to the students who have shown the most interest, enthusiasm and skill. With the help of Whole Foods Market, we hope to accomplish the goals of this class. One step closer to world domination. 

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While some of you may have celebrated with a fresh pedicure or by cracking open a cold beer on your apartment’s tiny balcony, over here at Yacht Club Headquarters, we celebrated the First day of Spring by starting our new garden!

We recently acquired this here beautiful garden plot at the Jardin del Rio Community Garden. It comes with a guard deer and everything!

Very soon we will begin sowing seeds there. Yesterday we started eggplant, tomatoes, and peppers in our new office.

They will sit by our windows until they grow up, and move out to the garden plot.

Or until Fidel eats them….

The hope is that our new garden will provide hands on learning to our local youth and also provide food for our cooking classes. If you would like to get involved with this project or find out more information please email us: gardening@theyachtclub.org

Anchoring Los Angeles.
The Yacht Club is in it’s 4th year and boy are we feeling spunky! As most of you already know (or should know) we’ve made it our responsibility to ensure our community parks are open today and stay open in the future. As we expand to new parks and grow our free programing for kids, we’re looking, asking and in some cases even demanding for you get more involved as we move forward and take the next step in The Yacht Club’s evolution.

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Just over a month ago our good friends at Good.is (pun intended) posted an article on Earth Day encouraging readers to make an “Earth Day Pledge”– The point being to demonstrate your commitment to improving your relationship with the environment. A lofty way of saying, “stop being a dick to the environment” (who knew our slogan was so versatile?). In said article, this beautiful man, Patrick James, pledged to “… reduce the time I spend driving alone in the car. At least once a week for the rest of the year, I’ll walk, bike, carpool, or take the bus to work.” Not only did this get Craig and I thinking about how much of a smug little goody two-(walking)-shoes Patrick James was… but how we could change our own habits and one-up that hippy Patrick with our own idea for improving the health of the rock we call earth. So our pledge is simple.

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