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Expedition Kitchen Culinary Camps offers hands-on cooking camps where kids take part in activities such as the Epicurean Exploration camp, Good Mood Food camp, Culinary Creatives camp, and the Zero-Waste Cooking Camp Challenge. The program also offers cooking classes, summer camps, after school programs, special events, and a “Chopped”-style cooking competition. Expedition Kitchen Culinary Camps includes both live and virtual experiences for young learners and uses a nature-connected, slow food approach with a focus on sustainable strategies and lifelong healthy relationships with food, including plant-based cooking, the connection between food and mood, advanced culinary techniques, and using all parts of a plant while upcycling ingredients.
• Ages: 10–17 years old
• Schedule: 8 action-packed weeks of camps running June 8th - August 7th
Path to Panacea, which runs Expedition Kitchen Culinary Camps, has been bringing inspiring kids' cooking programs to the East Bay since 2019. The program’s mission is to help families and individuals simplify mealtime by incorporating sustainable strategies that inspire creativity and exploration in the kitchen, building lifelong healthy relationships with food. Alicia leads the educational side of the program as a culinary educator, holistic nutritionist, and local and sustainable food advocate, and she holds a Bachelor of Sciences from Florida State University and a certificate in holistic nutrition from Bauman College. Her leadership experience includes roles as Nutrition Education Coordinator for Bay Leaf Kitchen, Director of Education and Head Chef at Culinary Artistas, co-founder of Joyful Family Cooking with Elianna Friedman, and Education Director for Culinary Artistas since 2021.
Alicia’s community involvement includes working with Bay Area youth through CUESA’s Foodwise Kids program, creating a progressive culinary curriculum for Bay Leaf Kitchen that reached hundreds of Bay Area families, and serving as a teen mentor and associate chef at Ceres Community Project, where she guided teens in preparing nourishing organic meals for low-income communities facing serious health challenges. Testimonials from families and participants describe campers’ enthusiasm for cooking and collaboration, appreciation for customizable recipes and new cooking skills, and note Alicia’s organization, individualized attentiveness, enthusiasm, passion, knowledge, and creativity in helping students understand content and apply it to their lives.
Last updated December 18, 2025.
• Ages: 10–17 years old
• Schedule: 8 action-packed weeks of camps running June 8th - August 7th
Path to Panacea, which runs Expedition Kitchen Culinary Camps, has been bringing inspiring kids' cooking programs to the East Bay since 2019. The program’s mission is to help families and individuals simplify mealtime by incorporating sustainable strategies that inspire creativity and exploration in the kitchen, building lifelong healthy relationships with food. Alicia leads the educational side of the program as a culinary educator, holistic nutritionist, and local and sustainable food advocate, and she holds a Bachelor of Sciences from Florida State University and a certificate in holistic nutrition from Bauman College. Her leadership experience includes roles as Nutrition Education Coordinator for Bay Leaf Kitchen, Director of Education and Head Chef at Culinary Artistas, co-founder of Joyful Family Cooking with Elianna Friedman, and Education Director for Culinary Artistas since 2021.
Alicia’s community involvement includes working with Bay Area youth through CUESA’s Foodwise Kids program, creating a progressive culinary curriculum for Bay Leaf Kitchen that reached hundreds of Bay Area families, and serving as a teen mentor and associate chef at Ceres Community Project, where she guided teens in preparing nourishing organic meals for low-income communities facing serious health challenges. Testimonials from families and participants describe campers’ enthusiasm for cooking and collaboration, appreciation for customizable recipes and new cooking skills, and note Alicia’s organization, individualized attentiveness, enthusiasm, passion, knowledge, and creativity in helping students understand content and apply it to their lives.
Last updated December 18, 2025.
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