. All About Chewy
- / Who We Are
Who are we? We're a bunch of funny folks who like to eat good food and read good books and somehow, we put the two together and SHAZAAM!! Chewy Cafe was born!
Chewy Cafe was the brainchild of a small non-profit organization in a really cool place called Eureka Springs, Arkansas. In addition to being a beautiful arts village, Eureka Springs is also home to The Writers' Colony, a place where writers, artists and composers can go and just focus on writing and creating. Way back in the early aughts, like around 2001, we created a Culinary Suite with a test kitchen where culinary writers (folks who write cookbooks or who write about food), could come and write and test all their recipes (and, of course, share their yummy creations with us!!). As more and more culinary writers passed through our doors, we kept hearing the same thing over and over again - that kids today aren't growing up cooking, so they don't understand the basics of how to cook and how to be comfortable in the kitchen.
'It's not enough to TELL kids what to eat,' our writers told us. 'You have to TEACH them how to choose, prepare and enjoy food.'
We heard this so often that one of our Board members suggested we create a program that would teach kids ages 10 - 14 some of these disappearing cooking and kitchen skills. So ... we did. And that's how The Writers' Colony created Chewy Cafe.
As you may have figured out, creating something as cool as Chewy meant we needed partners who believed in us and who believed in kid's abilities to learn about cooking and healthy food. Great ideas attract great people, and pretty soon Care Foundation was on our side. With their generous support, we developed and launched Chewy Cafe. Then, the Blue & You Foundation for a Healthier Arkansas came on board and enabled us, along with Care Foundation, to create what you see here.
Today, we're steaming along, cookin' up more and more great ideas to get kids to fall in love with healthy cooking. What's our goal? To help you stay healthy your whole life.
Pretty cool, huh?
