Cooking With Pride: Edition I
A heart-health cookbook from five Baltimore chefs — recipes, nutrition cards, and the lived stories of the kitchens feeding the community.
By PCOM Kitchen
PCOM Healthy Heart Initiative, with Our Time Kitchen
June 2026 · 4 min read
Five chefs. One table. A free 56-page download built with Our Time Kitchen as part of PCOM's Healthy Heart Initiative.
Each chapter pairs a chef's recipe with a short profile of the kitchen it came from — the corner spot in West Baltimore, the Sunday table in Park Heights, the catering operation that started in a Curtis Bay rowhouse and now feeds the whole block. The food is the entry point; the stories are the reason the book holds together.
Recipes, nutrition cards, and the kitchen-table stories that make food feel like care. Every recipe is annotated with a heart-health note developed alongside PCOM's wellness staff, so cooks can adapt seasoning, oils, and portion sizes without losing the dish.
Cooking With Pride is a love letter to every kitchen feeding the movement — pull-out cards, shopping lists, and heart-health foundations included. Download the PDF and bring it into your own kitchen.
The next edition will introduce the chefs in long-form interviews and add a community cooks' section featuring recipes submitted by readers. Submissions open with the next edition.
