“Volunteering with sprouts was an awesome experience. Very smooth volunteer process, I’ve done it several times and get the right amount of reminders. Upon arrival, their operations director provides an overview of the program and then kids start arriving. The chefs always are excited to work with the kids and we always make such delicious foods and learn so much about cooking and health. It’s always awesome to see a shy or nervous child’s personality emerge while cooking. Sprouts is doing really amazing and necessary work in our community.”

“I felt that even in my short summer with this organization, I had made a large impact for many. My time with Sprouts Cooking Club has been challenging, equipping, and growing.  As an intern, I enjoyed dipping my hands in the many moving parts of this living and growing organization. It was a real joy and I hope to collaborate with Sprouts in the future!”

“The summer I spent interning with Sprouts was an extremely formative and engaging. Being able to enter a workplace where people are just as passionate and excited about food and the power it has in bringing people together as I am was amazing and really exciting. As soon as you join the team you are trusted with responsibilities and are made to feel like your opinions and work count for something in the larger organization. Working with a collaborative team was very helpful as I was able to gain real-time feedback and work through my tasks with the diverse perspectives of my team. Working with Sprouts has not only provided me with working experience but a community with a network that I know I can rely on.”

“Sprouts’ coaching skills and outreach has significantly increased the employment and job retention rate of our students.”

“My 9 year-old daughter has participated in several sprouts club sessions and a full week of camp last summer. She loved her experience and it has been a catalyst for her to take a more and more active role in the kitchen at home!”

Giant thanks to you and your amazing team there at Sprouts. Bluma has not stopped raving about Sprouts since she came home. We feel very lucky that she got to spend the week learning with you all. And hope that she will have many more experiences with you all in the future. Thanks again.

It’s a really fun experience when you have the power to do your own thing. After camp I went home and made my own salad– I liked the one that Chef Russell made at La Fitte did and so I made the green bean salad too.

Sprouts’ programs have a huge sense of reality because you really cook in restaurants hands-on with chefs. I feel really good about it because I know the ingredients I am using are a good quality. The slogan: ‘Learning what good food is about’ is really true.

Gianna really enjoyed Sprouts this summer. I think it was fun for her to be in San Francisco and explore new neighborhoods and kitchens. When we drove home on Friday evening she insisted I pass by Andronico’s and buy a whole chicken…which she parted out beautifully the following evening for dinner! I have a real sous chef at home now! Thanks for a great experience.

Thank you so much to you and your team! Pria returned home from camp each night Inspired. She’s been cooking ever since, and teaching me as well! Last night she made fresh pasta with feta and basil. No doubt she will want to return next year. Thank you again for a top-notch, creative, and well-run camp.

Sprouts is my favorite program ever because it combines all of my love of food and cooking with all my ideals about how things should be prepared. At Sprouts, you not only learn new techniques and recipes but you get the opportunity to practice them with the chefs who are teaching you!

We loved going to Lasalle, France with Sprouts and living with local people, going to school with kids our age, eating their local food and learning about their culture.

Sprouts is a unique cooking club for kids, which offers a first-class educational opportunity for culinary-minded children, who get to learn from some of the Bay Area’s best chefs–and be inspired by them. It’s like the Harvard of kids cooking clubs–a premier educational after-school learning opportunity that will develop the palettes and culinary minds of the lucky kids who attend.

I love Sprouts because you are treated like any other chef in the kitchen, and you learn so many different and amazing skills. There are way too many favorite memories but one of the best was going on the culinary immersion to France in 2009. My favorite classes are the baking and dessert ones but the others are just as much fun too. Sprouts is amazing and I will never forget the experiences that I had with all the awesome chefs!!!

I’ve been cooking since I was 7 or 8, but I’m learning more from one week with these chefs than all those years with my family.

He really enjoys sharing stories about his experience with family and friends.  After the last day of his week 8 class, he wanted to stay in the city with me to have dinner to just chat about food.  I splurged and took him to Boulevard knowing that he had a class there earlier in the Spring.  We were having a great time and getting ready to head out after dinner when the server came to me holding the chef’s iPhone.  She asked if I recognized someone in the picture as she showed me a picture the chef had taken of Clark that weekend in the Spring.  Clark thought that was just the coolest thing.  After that fun conversation, the server took Clark back to watch the line cook.  It really was a great day.

Sprouts stands out for allowing children into the kitchens of working, professional chefs.

The New York Times