Here is a list of some research articles specifically written about community kitchens.
We searched for for articles discussing community kitchens, collective kitchens, collective cooking and cooking clubs in research databases such as Medline, Academic Search Premier, Masterfile, Agricola, SocIndex, Sociological Abstracts and Social Science Index. These listings will provide title, author, date and summary (if available).
If you would like to see the complete article, contact your local public, college or university library for information on how to obtain.
On a broader scope, you may be interested in a review of the literature done by the Healthy Living Issue Group of the Pan-Canadian Public Health Network through a collaborative effort between the Public Health Agency of Canada, Health Canada and the Federal, Provincial, Territorial Group on Nutrition. This 2010 report - "Improving Cooking and Food Preparation Skills: A Synthesis of the Evidence to Inform Program and Policy Development" summarizes the current state of evidence related to cooking and food preparation skills and the implications of the transition of skills on nutritional health.