Dinah E. Gore Teaching and Research Kitchens

With the support of generous donors and our faculty and staff, the Department of Agricultural and Human Sciences designed the Dinah E. Gore Teaching and Research Kitchens — a state-of-the-art kitchen complex that will enhance and extend our work in teaching, research and extension.

Teaching

We teach safe food preparation and preservation.

Investigate questions on labeling, food safety and healthy cooking.

Research

We investigate research questions related to labeling, ingredient use, food safety, and healthy cooking.

Develop healthy recipes to share with the public.

Extension

We develop healthy recipes that our Extension agents and specialists can share with the public.

The Key Ingredient

The Dinah E. Gore Teaching and Research Kitchens complex is named for a longtime benefactor of family and consumer sciences programs at NC State University. Dinah Gore and her husband, Edward, have supported numerous educational programs in North Carolina schools, colleges and universities. She has been especially generous in enhancing NC State Extension’s educational programs related to health, food, nutrition and fitness.

NBC News visited the Dinah E. Gore Kitchens to highlight the partnership between USDA and NC State to investigate how home cooks handle raw meat and how those practices affect nearby food.

Washing Raw Chicken Could Make You Sick

Ben Chapman speaks with NBC News on why you shouldn't wash your chicken.

View of the Dinah E. Gore Teaching and Research Kitchens.

The best way to learn to cook is by being in the kitchen, cooking.

Server passing appetizers at the Dinah Gore Kitchen Launch Event.

Everyone can learn to cook delicious, healthy, and safe meals.

Dr. Bonnano taste testing at the Dinah Gore Kitchens Launch Event

Cooking does not have to be complicated.

A kitchen demo in the Dinah Gore Kitchens.

Cooking is an art guided by science.

Healthy food is essential to a healthy life.

Food is medicine.

Eloise S. Cofer Family Living Lecture Series

Cheetie Kumar, Chef and owner of Garland Restaurant in Raleigh and a 2020 James Beard Award Finalist for Best Chef Southeast, returned to NC State as our 2020 Eloise Cofer Lecturer.

Watch the Series

Cheetie Kumar in the kitchen at the Garland Kitchen in Raleigh, NC.

From Concept to Kitchen

Thank You to our Donors

Many individuals and groups made the creation of the Dinah E. Gore Teaching and Research Kitchens possible.

See our generous donors