caption: Marybeth Peña, a nurse program specialist with the Florida Department of Health-Martin County, taught a free, hands-on cooking class on Monday, Feb. 4, 2019, at the 10th Street Community Center in Stuart. Adults and children learned knife skills, kitchen safety, and how to prepare healthy, low-cost meals. At the end of the class participants ate the veggie brown rice bowls, fruit and sparkling water that they helped prepare. The program was open to all members of the public. The center has plans to continue the class.