Community Kitchen:

Sunday, June 7, 2026
3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
$30 for Center Members, $40 for General Public
Register by Friday, June 5th at 12:00pm

A shared evening of cooking and dinner with recipes from the community!

Community Kitchen is organized by volunteers to bring members of our community together to learn how to cook Japanese and Japanese American family recipes and to share a multi-generational communal dinner. Adapting our Baachan's Kitchen program started in 2016, our Community Kitchen is open to all who want to enjoy and share Japanese home-style cooking while connecting with the community.

Each dinner consists of a menu determined in advance by the Community Kitchen volunteer committee, who then instruct and assist attendees in preparing the dishes on the menu. Participants of all ages and backgrounds are welcome! Just be prepared to help in the preparation, cooking, and cleanup, but most of all, to have a great time!

• June Community Kitchen menu: Hawaiian luau!
  • Garlic Shrimp
  • Chicken Karaage
  • Spam Musubi
  • Lomi Lomi Salmon
  • Mac Salad
  • Shaved Ice

We'd love to show pictures and videos of food and fun times from past Community Kitchen events from our own collection as well as from all of our participants. Send us any of your favorite photos taken at a prior Community Kitchen at programsevents@jcccnc.org!