A&M-Victoria hosts cooking demonstration in cultural education series

Marcie Kucera, an extension health agent with Texas A&M AgriLife, demonstrates to the audience how they can cook a mushroom and sauerkraut pierogi on Oct. 21 during a Cooking Well Exploring Cultures session looking into Polish food at Texas A&M University-Victoria. The series is a partnership between A&M-Victoria and A&M AgriLife Extension and occurs every Tuesday throughout the month of October. The series is designed to educate participants about global cuisines and traditions with each week dedicated to spotlighting a different country. Recent sessions have celebrated the cuisines of the Philippines and India. In the sessions, attendees enjoyed live demonstrations, tasted samples of dishes and viewed educational videos that delve into each culture's rich heritage. After each session, participants are given recipes and encouraged to recreate the meals at home and experiment with new flavors.

Texas A&M University-Victoria, located in the heart of the Coastal Bend region since 1973 in Victoria, Texas, offers courses leading to more than 50 academic programs in the colleges of Business, Education & Health Professions, Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, and Natural & Applied Science. A&M-Victoria provides face-to-face classes at its Victoria campus, as well as online classes that students can take from anywhere. The university supports the American Association of State Colleges and Universities Opportunities for All initiative to increase awareness about state colleges and universities and the important role they have in providing a high-quality and accessible education to an increasingly diverse student population, as well as contributing to regional and state economic development.