Check out the latest in this Volunteer-created video showing Mizzou student volunteers preparing and serving dinner alongside Gina, our kitchen manager (Gina’s Vegan A Go Go).
Mixing masa for tamales
The increase in diet-related health problems in every segment of the US population has led to the Centro Latino’s latest initiative: The Kitchen (El Comedor Popular or The People’s Diner). This on-site commercial kitchen allows us to provide meals to participants of our community programs: After School Program and Summer Program for kids, plus the opportunity to implement a Veggie Friendly Kids in the Kitchen. The Kitchen has also been the site of our Promotoras de Salud/Health Promotors program Conversación y Comida/Conversation & Food sessions.
Visit the Kitchen Shop to order tamales, buy dinner,
or donate a meal to our After School Program kids!
Check us out on Facebook here: Centro Latino's Kitchen FB Page
How it all happened:
The Centro Latino de Salud, Education y Cultura (the Latino Center for Health, Education and Culture) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 2000 to meet the needs of the Hispanic community in Mid-Missouri.
Centro Latino has created and sustained a number of programs in the community center, such as: English Classes, Public Health and Social Services, the After School Program & Promotoras de Salud (Health Promoters Program), Legal Access Program and Immigration Services.
Centro Latino’s Kitchen opened in 2012 and since then, we’ve hosted fundraiser dinners, birthday parties, community meetings, our after school tutoring program, English as a Second Language classes, Spanish classes, tamale making classes, Veggie Friendly Kids in the Kitchen, and local entrepreneurs developing recipes and pop-up events.
Columbia, MO businesses & entrepreneurs who’ve popped up, volunteered, and/or started out in Centro Latino’s Kitchen:
Andre Edwards
Eduardo Godoy
David Aguayo
Max Garcia-Rubio
Alberto Portillo
Julie Vanessa Cake Boutique 
Colin Enslin
Gina Overshiner 