THANK YOU
FOR ALL YOUR
SUPPORT!
Almost 2.5 years ago, the idea of Culture Kitchen was born.
1.5 years ago, Culture Kitchen became a company.
Today, we close our shop & move on to new ways of pursuing our mission.
From the start, we set out to connect people by sharing culture and incredible food. We began with cooking classes, celebrating the incredible cooking skills and culture of our amazing instructors, immigrants to the SF Bay Area who had mastered their culture’s cuisine from years of cooking at home. Our small, intimate classes focused on not only teaching authentic ethnic cuisines, but the story of each of our instructors, bringing to life the flavors, experiences and essence of their home country.
We then ventured into a new product line, the Culture Kitchen Kits. Our kits took some of the most memorable classes and instructors and brought their recipes and ingredients to the entire US. In less than a year, we shipped cooking kits to almost all 50 states, covering 8 different cuisines and 8 incredible home-taught cooks. Some of you shared your dinner photos with us and proved that together, we did in fact spread culture through food, no matter where you live.
It’s been a amazing and life changing few years cooking with the Culture Kitchen team, our vibrant cooks, their families, and all of our dedicated customers. But, we weren’t able to get everything to come together like we had imagined. We had challenges with sales, bumps in the road with funding and sometimes dwindling team energy from working very long hours. All these things lead us to decide it was best to close-up shop, give big hugs to all of our Culture Kitchen family and explore our own ways of spreading culture through food with other projects. It’s with heavy hearts that we close down shop at Culture Kitchen. It has been a great privilege doing this work and making memories over the kitchen table with you.
We are honored for all of the encouragement, enthusiasm and support from everyone whose lives Culture Kitchen has touched. We can not express in words how grateful we are to you for helping us realize our dream. Although Culture Kitchen’s time has come to a close, we hope you too believe that the mission of spreading culture through food is bigger than one company and that you will continue to seek out good food, good company, and always, explore.
To visit the old site, click here. To learn what’s next for our team, scroll down.
THANK YOU!
Abby Sturges & Jennifer López
Co-founders
WHAT'S NEXT?
ABBY
While Abby will be working full-time as a Designer by day, she loves San Francisco and cooking with Culture Kitchen cooks too much to give it up! She will be blogging under the Culture Kitchen name as a labor of love in her spare time and posting recipes HERE. You can contact abby at abby@culturekitchen.com
JENNIFER
Since Jennifer transitioned to an advisor of Culture Kitchen four months ago, she has continued to celebrate our cooks stories and recipes by cooking for her friends and family at home. By day, Jennifer will be putting her skills and charm to work as a Design Researcher & Strategist. You can contact Jennifer at jennifer.lopez08@gmail.com