Enriching Lives through Healthy Eating
Bringing People to the Table

Harvard Cookin'Girl’s mission is to bring healthy eating and cooking to kids through fun, hands-on, and fact-based after-school curriculum and, ultimately through the kids and schools, to their families. Twenty years ago, we could not fathom the idea that our kids would be the drivers of our recycling at home and we could not imagine our kids could nag their parents into quitting smoking or buckling up in the car. Now, the Harvard Cookin'Girl wants to empower kids to take on the mission of healthy eating and become catalysts for improving their lives and those of their parents and loved ones.

The slow food movement is finally capturing momentum on a national level. Alice Waters, the world-renowned chef, has taken this concept to many schools around the country especially in California. Even the Obamas have dedicated part of the White House grounds to a vegetable garden and, thought leaders like best-selling authors David Kessler and Michael Pollan are exposing the direct links between unhealthy eating habits and the spiraling health crisis we are all facing as a nation.

Through her own love of food and home cooking, the Harvard Cookin'Girl has witnessed how her kids have engaged in learning about food and its preparation. She believes “the path to any kid’s heart is through treats.” However, parents often use approaches that are too radical by either demonizing sugar or ignoring its overuse. As the Harvard Cookin'Girl is fond of saying “the right approach is to entice kids to love and respect food through treats they love.”

The Harvard Cookin' Girl believes that if kids understood the purpose and richness of food through direct engagement, they will make the right choice. With that in mind, she has taken her curriculum to schools and community centers through enrichment programs. She has personally hand-picked and trained instructors to interact with kids in the same way she engages with her own kids when cooking and teaching them.

Now with the help of sponsors such as SieMatic of Germany and Fixtures Living of San Diego she is also offering entertaing evenging classes to adults as well in her very upscale studios in La Jolla. Trip Advisor has voted her as top entertainment in La Jolla.

Meet Bibi Kasrai- The Harvard Cookin'Girl

Bibi Kasrai has worked many years alongside premier cardiologists, nutritionists and integrative health practitioners to know the value of good eating habits on your overall health. She too has struggled many years to keep bad cholesterol low, good ones high and overall level tolerable without the use of drugs. However, as a gourmet chef and someone who has a sweet tooth, she could never eliminate sweets from her diet. Coming from a family who has diabetes on one side and cardiac problems on the other, she often asked herself how could they enjoy long healthy lives while not depriving themselves? She thought the answer might be rooted simply in their diet. She kissed her Harvard MBA goodbye and left her corporate career as a non-profit executive to pursue her passion. This foodie started to examine the secrets of gourmet cooking along the Silk Road. She has captured the best of her Persian family’s recipes and created many others from all her travels around the world. Simultaneously, her passion for educating her kids and their friends about the value of healthy eating drove her to start an education program through schools. She pitched her philosophy to local schools and created a curriculum to modify children's eating habits through cooking with a hands-on program. Her program has cleverly embedded messages about sanitation, healthy nutrition, chemistry, reading, measurements and fractions and engages kids into these subjects through fun.