Yesterday at Chatham, we had a menu featuring local foods in our cafeteria, hosted food trivia, and gave away raffle prizes. We had many organizations from around Pittsburgh come and table to educate students about the awesome work happening in the city. Some of the Food Studies students made a huge pot of Curry Kuri Squash Soup that featured all local veggies! The recipe was developed by an alumni of our program.This is a picture of Hal teaching the cooking class on how to make this delicious soup at a local market:
We showed a slideshow of pictures of students holding up a sign that said why they supported real food. It was really cool to see all of the different reasons students felt it was important to advocate for "real food". Real food was defined by the beholder. Drew supports Real Food because it tastes good!
We also showed a short film about sustainable agriculture. Take a peek! Certainly this film doesn't tell the whole story, but it is so important that we keep learning and advocating for a more sustainable system. A food system that supports our farmers, our land and our bodies.
In the evening, we went to see Melinda Hemmelgarn speak at Carnegie Mellon University. She is most well known for her blog Food Sleuth. She also has a radio show on KOPN and you can listen online! She describes herself as an investigative nutritionist; I love this description! She has lots of interesting guests and talks about lots of important food topics.
Melinda told us about a friend of hers who traveled around the country taking pictures the inside of people's refrigerators. Take a look. Mark Menjivar's project is wildly fascinating.
It was such a great day! Many thanks to all of the people behind the events making it happen! Did anyone else do anything for Food Day 2012?
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