EAT NYC, a celebration of the 2nd Annual National Food Day, will take place on Wednesday, October 24 at Food & Finance High School at 525 West 50th Street from 6:30 to 9pm. Hosts Avis Richard, the Founder of Birds Nest Foundation, Lisa Suriano, the Founder of Veggiecation, and Peter Insalaco, the Director/CEO of Local Food Support Network, will indulge guests in fare and demonstrations from NYC’s best restaurants committed to local, healthy, and sustainable food. Celebrity Chef & Author Rocco DiSpirito will also be on-hand for the festivities. The evening will benefit the Ground Up Campaign, the signature program of non-profit Birds Nest Foundation, which plants academic gardens in public schools across the nation to encourage healthy eating habits in students. Go to EATNYC2012.com for more information or to purchase tickets.
Day to Night in Style!
In celebration of Food Day, we went shopping at J.Crew to find our favorite fall looks that can go from day straight to a night of culinary fun and festivities.
First, pick a top . . .
Collection Leopard Blouse ($250) Golden Paisley Blouse ($298) Trompe l’oeil Lace Blouse ($135)
. . . Then a great pair of black pants.
Stovepipe Trouse in Stretch Wool ($178) New Curator Pant in Matte Jersey ($168)
Wedge for day, heels for night, boots for both!
Everly Calf Hair Pump ($350) Keegan Bucle Ankle Boot ($278) Martina Patent Wedge ($228)
Tuck the Clutch inside the Tote!
Invitation Clutch in Dot ($158) Biennial Satchel ($348) Calf Hair Clutch ($425)
Top it off with a Sensational Peplum Coat!
Wool-cashmere Peplum Coat ($425)
The Veggiecation© Program is a nutrition education program that introduces young children to the wonderfully delicious and nutritious world of vegetables. This is done by incorporating unique and kid-friendly vegetable preparations into fun activities and exciting experiences. By replacing food fears and resistance with ownership and positive peer pressure, your children are empowered to expand their horizons while simultaneously improving their nutritional status and knowledge.
Non-profit creative group Birds Nest Foundation creates short films, movies, TV shows, and PSAs for charities and groups with social causes (including: Autism Speaks, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and the charities founded by Goldie Hawn, John Legend, Fran Drescher, Michael Bolton, Andre Agassi, to name a few). A signature program of the Birds Nest Foundation, the Ground Up Campaign, is dedicated to helping kids appreciate and enjoy healthy foods, vegetables, and proper nutrition, and is planting hundreds of academic gardens in schools across the country.
Food Day is a nationwide celebration and a movement for healthy, affordable, and sustainable food. Food Day, created by CSPI, is powered by a diverse coalition of food movement leaders, organizations, and people from all walks of life. Food Day takes place annually on October 24 to address issues as varied as health and nutrition, hunger, agricultural policy, animal welfare, and farm worker justice. The ultimate goal of Food Day is to strengthen and unify the food movement in order to improve our nation’s food policies. Food Day aims to transform the American diet. It’s time for America to Eat Real! All Americans—regardless of their age or race or income or geographic location—should be able to select healthy diets and avoid obesity, heart disease, and other diet related conditions.
Local Food Support Network is a grass roots effort focusing attention on the Who’s, How’s and Why’s of “Growing, Buying, Preparing and Eating of fair fresh local food”; while advocating for increased availability. Local food Support Network partners, supports, and promotes existing effective programs that advocate fair, fresh, local foods and their availability to all. The current challenges, shortcomings and dysfunction’s of our food system are appallingly apparent. The simple recognition of this public challenge is in itself a call to action for those of us who share these concerns.
