Tips/advice on starting a cooking club?

anyone have any tips and advice on starting a cooking/baking club in a high school?Tips/advice on starting a cooking club?
Never heard of a cooking club, but it doesn't sound like a bad idea. Some things you make think of are





1. Put together a cookbook. This could be something done throught the whole of the year or on more of a quarterly basis. If it's done on a quarterly basis maybe you pick a theme for each quarter. Themes could be things like main dishes, vegetarian, celebrations, desserts, breads, ethnic cusine (ie cuisine from certain countries), etc. The book, or books, could simply be made just for members of the club or for sale to raise funds for the club. Also, all recipies should probably be made by club members and tasted by all members of the club before being put in the book, or books.





2. Do kinda an Iron Chef type of thing every so often. Two club members square off and have to prepare X number of dishes using a secret ingrident and other members (or maybe some teachers) get to judge.





3. Each of you try making dishes that other members are good at.





4. Try cooking historical recipes.There are reprints of historical cookbooks and cookbooks that have recipies (either original or slightly modernized) from certain periods. This type of cooking can be intresting in that it helps learn what cooking was like from various periods in time.





5. See if you can convince the school to hold a dinner (or series of dinners) for honor roll students that your club can then cook for.Tips/advice on starting a cooking club?
Cool idea! Get a sponsor; do you still have Home Ec teachers? They'd be the natural sponsor.





You could get together and work on 1 skill per meeting, like chopping, sauteeing, braising, etc.





You coudl have canned food drives for your local food bank or charitable group that provides food to needy.





You could make ';mixes in a jar'; to sell for fundraisers.





You could have special speakers come from gourmet grocery stores (or go there as a group) to learn about cheesemaking, organic farming, sourdough bread baking, and so forth.





I encourage you to find a teacher willing to sponsor it, and together you guys plan it!
I actually really want to do the same thing! Go to the guidance counciler's office, they probably have a form for you to fill out. At our High School, you have to get a lot of signatures to get a club approved.





Good luck.