Cooking class for Vets
Date: 7/19/2011 Album ID: 1288621
Photos by David Carson
Vets learn to cook better and eat well in a class at the Jefferson Barracks Division of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. A partnership between the VA and Operation Food Search, a St. Louis-area food bank provides nutritional, cooking and food-budgeting classes to veterans.
Wednesday July 13, 2011--Kayla Hansmann, with Operation Food Search, talks with a group of veterans at Jefferson Barracks, about the proper way to use a knife in the kitchen.
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Wednesday July 13, 2011--Kayla Hansmann, with Operation Food Search, talks with a group of veterans at Jefferson Barracks, about the proper way to use a knife in the kitchen.
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Wednesday July 13, 2011--A veteran dishes out a yogurt and cinnamon sauce for fresh fruit that he made during class. 
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Wednesday July 13, 2011--George Loeschner, of Collinsville, looks over a the recipes in a book given to a class of veterans taking a cooking class at Jefferson Barracks.
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Wednesday July 13, 2011--Leslie Bertsch, with Operation Food Search, left, watches as Melva Pfohl flips the quesadillas the class of veterans at Jefferson Barracks made.  The class teaches vets and their family members basic cooking techniques and how to shop healthfully on a budget.
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Wednesday July 13, 2011--Kayla Hansmann, with Operation Food Search, talks with a group of veterans at Jefferson Barracks, about the proper way to use a knife in the kitchen.
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Wednesday July 13, 2011--Fresh fruit as prepared by veterans taking a cooking class at the Jefferson Barracks.
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Wednesday July 13, 2011--Melva Pfohl, left, and Percy Pfohl, of south St. Louis County, work on cutting up fresh fruit during a cooking class at Jefferson Barracks.
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Wednesday July 13, 2011--Donnie Korn, of French Village, prepares a yogurt and cinnamon sauce for fresh cut fruit during a cooking class at Jefferson Barracks.
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Wednesday July 13, 2011--Kayla Hansmann, with Operation Food Search, talks with a group of veterans at Jefferson Barracks, about the proper way to use a knife in the kitchen.
David Carson     dcarson@post-dispatch.com
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