Jung-a's Community Offerings

Jung-a's offers home cooking support and community-based cooking experiences that help individuals and families build a sustainable and meaningful relationship with food. These personally customized hands-on offerings can take place in your home, workplace, school, or community setting.

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If you're not sure where to begin, please reach out to Jung-a at jungaskitchen@gmail.com to schedule a consultation.

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Home-based Support

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Home cooking support: for real life food living

Sometimes making food for ourselves and our families turns into a job in itself. When life is overflowing with many responsibilities, cooking can feel too much to handle. You may take cooking classes, but still wonder how to make meals fit into everyday life.

Jung-a knows this feeling well — sometimes even feeling like a withered cabbage wilting on the counter, aigooo ^^ ​

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You don't have to feel alone in this.

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Jung-a can come to your kitchen to cook with you, helping you build daily cooking rhythms that feel manageable, nourishing, and sustainable.

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What are these sessions about?

• Cooking together in your own kitchen

• Making meals for daily life

• Simple food planning

• Grocery pick-up support

• Building creativity and connection

• Growing confidence in cooking

• Finding small, manageable pieces that make meals possible

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Who are these sessions for?

• Busy families

• Busy individuals living alone

• People overwhelmed by cooking

• People who feel disconnected from making food

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Cost: Sliding Fee: $20–$50 per hour
Lower rates are available for households with financial need. Limited availability at $20/hour.

Jung-a is offering 2 complimentary support sessions for the first households who reach out. These sessions are part of shaping this new offering and together we'll learn what works best for you in your home. 

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Please email jungaskitchen@gmail.com to set up a consultation. Together we can build a cooking practice that fits your life, tastes, and energy.

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Jung-a Cooks 

Enjoy a home-cooked meal without the stress of preparing it yourself.

Jung-a can:

• Cook meals in your home

• Prepare meals and bring them to you

This service is ideal for busy households, caregivers, or anyone needing support getting nourishing meals on the table.

Rates

Cooking in your home: $30–$75 per hour
Meal delivery (prepared food brought to you): $40–$85 per hour

*Plus cost of ingredients

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Community Cooking Experiences​

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Community Workshops

Make kimchi and other Korean dishes with Jung-a in community settings. These workshops blend hands-on cooking with storytelling, cultural context, and group reflection.

You may find Jung-a's workshops through organizations such as:

• Missoula Food Bank

• Missoula Urban Demonstration Project (MUD)

• Lifelong Learning Center

Workshops are designed to build connection, share knowledge, and make cooking approachable and meaningful.

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Food Storytelling Gatherings

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​Food carries stories, memories, and histories. All our foods come from somewhere, from some culture, from a meeting of cultures, from the ground, from trees and bushes and from the water . We all are full of food stories. In these gatherings, participants cook together while sharing personal food stories — building connection, reflection, and community through food.

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Jung-a facilitates group conversations that encourage people to reflect on their relationship with food while preparing and sharing a meal together.

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Together, we may prepare a mini Korean bapsang — a traditional Korean meal often including:

• Rice

• Soup

• A fish and/or meat dish

• Kimchi

• Several side dishes (banchan)

Participants are also invited to bring a dish from their own food history that feels meaningful to them.

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Group Size & Cost

2–12 people
$50 per hour
Ingredients: $40–$150 (depending on group size, season, and ingredients)

If you're interested in cooking together, please email jungaskitchen@gmail.com.​

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Partnerships and Collaborations

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Jung-a loves collaborating and is open to working with:

• Farmers and farms

• Artists and creatives

• Educators and schools

• Chefs and food professionals

• Community organizations

• Workplaces interested in team-based cooking experiences

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Trades

Jung-a is also open to trades as part of building community relationships.

Services of interest include:

• Meals

• Learning how to mend or alter clothing

• Marketing or social media support

• Body/movement practices

If you have a trade idea, feel free to reach out.

 

A Note from Jung-a

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• At the heart of Jung-a's work is the belief that people already carry knowledge about food within themselves. Sometimes what is needed is not more recipes, but support — small pieces that make cooking possible again.

• Like banchan, small dishes that create a full meal, cooking can happen in manageable steps. Over time, those small pieces build rhythm, confidence, and connection.

• If you're curious about working together, please reach out at jungaskitchen@gmail.com.

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