For the third year, Recipe for Success Foundation excitedly supported Food Day, a nationwide celebration of healthy, affordable, sustainable food and a grassroots movement for better food policies.
In honor of this year's focus on Food Education, this week we hosted activities to educate Houstonians of all ages about our food systems, including a screening of More Than Honey followed by a panel discussion with area bee experts about the decline in bee populations; a field trip for 350 students to view the documentary What's on Your Plate? about kids and food politics; and 70 or so of our regularly scheduled culinary and gardening classes for students in our Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ programs across the city.
We also partnered with Urban Harvest and the City of Houston to host the Third Annual Food Day Chef Throwdown at the City Hall Farmers Market. Four Houston chefs went head-to-head to create tasty vegetarian dishes using local produce donated by Gunderrman Acres and Atkinson Farms, plus this year's secret ingredient - HONEY (from Bee Wilde)! Food savvy judges voted on their winner - Greg Gordon of La Vista!
Read more about the challenge here and here.
During the Chef Throwdown, we also asked market patrons why they eat seed-to-plate. You know, why seek out real, whole food to nourish your body and appease hunger pangs? There are plenty of reasons to do so, but we wanted to know why Houston eats real.
Here are some of our favorite answers:
I eat seed-to-plate...
because it tastes better!
because it's healthy and fun!
to support local growers and farmers!
for better health.
because fresh veggies have shown me a whole new world of what food really is.
for our four-year-old daughter.
to feel great!
because it's honest food.
to support my city and its people!
for mental freshness.
because it's delicious and nutritious!
because it's important to know where your food comes from.
because it's creative and yummy!
because it's sustainable!
to save the bees!
because I love veggies!
Read more reasons Houstonians eat real and view our Food Day 2013 photo album here.
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