{"id":85900,"date":"2025-11-30T18:03:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T23:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=85900"},"modified":"2025-11-30T18:03:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T23:03:50","slug":"spotlight-on-uncomplicated-kitchen-builds-skills-confidence-and-community-through-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/lifestyle\/spotlight-on-uncomplicated-kitchen-builds-skills-confidence-and-community-through-food\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Spotlight On:<\/strong> Uncomplicated Kitchen Builds Skills, Confidence and Community Through Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Emma Castleberry<\/p>\n<p>Uncomplicated Kitchen is a small, community-driven nonprofit that offers hands-on cooking classes designed for people of all ages and skill levels. Led by founder Jenna Kranz alongside a small team of instructors and trained volunteers, the organization partners with local groups, schools and community centers to teach practical skills like knife work, meal planning and how to turn accessible ingredients into nourishing dishes. Its programs focus on building confidence, food literacy and joy in the kitchen.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_85903\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85903\" class=\"wp-image-85903\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Spotlight-On-Uncomplicated-Kitchen-IMG_1760-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Spotlight-On-Uncomplicated-Kitchen-IMG_1760-copy-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Spotlight-On-Uncomplicated-Kitchen-IMG_1760-copy-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Spotlight-On-Uncomplicated-Kitchen-IMG_1760-copy-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Spotlight-On-Uncomplicated-Kitchen-IMG_1760-copy-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Spotlight-On-Uncomplicated-Kitchen-IMG_1760-copy-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Spotlight-On-Uncomplicated-Kitchen-IMG_1760-copy-2-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Spotlight-On-Uncomplicated-Kitchen-IMG_1760-copy-2-810x810.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Spotlight-On-Uncomplicated-Kitchen-IMG_1760-copy-2-1140x1140.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-85903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josie helping her dad in the kitchen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kranz founded Uncomplicated Kitchen after repeatedly witnessing a gap between access to good ingredients and the confidence needed to use them. As a volunteer at The Community Table in Sylva, she watched beautiful produce go untouched. \u201cI learned that folks would grab more of the fresh stuff if they knew how to use it,\u201d she says. She also had a booth at the weekly Jackson County Farmers Market where she sold vegan, organic and gluten-free granola and protein bars. She doesn\u2019t like to label foods healthy and unhealthy, but because people perceived her product as \u201chealthy,\u201d she found they often came by to ask her how to use \u201chealthy\u201d produce like zucchini, beets, kohlrabi and kale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne day, this college student plopped a ton of fresh produce on my table, and asked me how she should cook the beets she just bought,\u201d Kranz remembers. \u201cIf I remember correctly, she was on SNAP benefits and was trying to improve her health. She really wanted to learn how to cook, but\u2026cooking as a life skill isn\u2019t taught as often as it should be. I told her that I also had the same items that I\u2019d just bought and I had to cook them, too. But there was no way I could explain this without physically having her do it.\u201d Kranz invited the woman to her house and they cooked side by side in her kitchen. This was the first Uncomplicated Kitchen lesson, though the organization\u2019s name didn\u2019t come until about a year later.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_85904\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85904\" class=\"wp-image-85904\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Spotlight-On-Uncomplicated-Kitchen-IMG_2677-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-85904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danny Rochez, with Jenna Kranz, in College Cooking 101<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cExpecting that someone can take ingredients, familiar or not so familiar, and know how to make a meal of it is more difficult than I ever would have realized,\u201d says Kranz. \u201cIt\u2019s experiential in nature. It takes time and practice and a recipe isn\u2019t what gets someone to that place of comfort and confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Classes are structured around the goals of the students and simplicity is always a core tenant. \u201cSuccess is finding peace and joy in the kitchen without spending a ton of money or time in doing so,\u201d Kranz says. \u201cWe don\u2019t believe that knowing how to follow recipes is the same as knowing how to really cook. The pandemic taught us a lot about making do with what we had. So success also looks like when folks open their refrigerators and pantries and see what may be in their gardens or at the markets and know what to do with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Erin Casey Harris began attending classes after becoming friends with Kranz at the farmers market. When Harris brought her daughter Lily\u2014who is autistic and had long struggled with food anxiety\u2014to a class, the experience was transformative. \u201cLily was anxious at first, but Jenna was able to connect with her,\u201d Harris says. They attended regularly, and the progress was unmistakable. \u201cEven though it wasn\u2019t every time that Lily would eat the food, we were beyond thrilled that she was tasting it and especially that she enjoyed the cooking skills and experience she was gaining.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_85902\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85902\" class=\"wp-image-85902\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Spotlight-On-Uncomplicated-Kitchen-IMG_1644-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Spotlight-On-Uncomplicated-Kitchen-IMG_1644-copy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Spotlight-On-Uncomplicated-Kitchen-IMG_1644-copy-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Spotlight-On-Uncomplicated-Kitchen-IMG_1644-copy-785x1024.jpg 785w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Spotlight-On-Uncomplicated-Kitchen-IMG_1644-copy-768x1002.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Spotlight-On-Uncomplicated-Kitchen-IMG_1644-copy-1178x1536.jpg 1178w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Spotlight-On-Uncomplicated-Kitchen-IMG_1644-copy-810x1056.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Spotlight-On-Uncomplicated-Kitchen-IMG_1644-copy-1140x1487.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-85902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ezra McGuire at a Mealtime Miracles class<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today, cooking together is part of their family rhythm. \u201cI am still nearly brought to tears every time I\u2019m in the kitchen and Lily helps me,\u201d Harris says. \u201cWe need community surrounding food. My family, and I believe everyone, benefits from this often missing necessity of being together and sharing preparation and meals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meghan Gangel, an assistant professor of psychology at Western Carolina University, started attending Uncomplicated Kitchen sessions after meeting Kranz at the bus stop. Her children quickly fell in love with the atmosphere of the classes. \u201cThey love the personalized attention they get from the many volunteers,\u201d Gangel says. \u201cThey love feeling like they are in charge and know what they are doing. They will eat any recipe made from Uncomplicated Kitchen. It has also helped us integrate into the community. It became a sort of family for us when we have no other family in the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Volunteer Mary Johnson first learned about Uncomplicated Kitchen through a friend and attended a presentation at First United Methodist Church in Waynesville. After attending several sessions supported by volunteers, she chose to join the team herself as a volunteer, helping with kitchen and ingredient prep and clean-up. \u201cThese classes are important to our community because the better equipped we are to provide good healthy options for our families the better off our families will be,\u201d Johnson says. \u201cBesides, everyone needs an Uncomplicated Kitchen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/UncomplicatedKitchen.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UncomplicatedKitchen.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uncomplicated Kitchen partners with local groups, schools and community centers to teach practical skills like knife work, meal planning and how to turn accessible ingredients into nourishing dishes. 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