"Food and Waste Day" with local celebrity chefs on the Seattle Center Grounds - Saturday, May 12th 2012 from 10am-5pm

Was happy to find this free and educational event in my inbox today!

The "Food and Waste Day" event celebrates local efforts to sustain safe and healthy food and minimize waste far into the future with fun-filled activities exploring how we can better grow, prepare and preserve our food resources. 

 

Event highlights:

 

• School the Chefs, 12 noon – 4pm, FREE (including food samples) in the Next 50 Activity Tent, demonstrates how healthy, locally sourced school lunches can be tasty and economically viable. Local Celebrity chefs invited by Tom Douglas, Inc. will coach teams of kids from participating schools to cook a school lunch for a fixed cost with both nutrition and taste in mind.  Participating chefs include Lisa Dupar, Leslie Mackie, Eric Tanaka, Josh Henderson, Kären Jurgensen, Jerry Traunfield, Jonathan Zimmer, Katherine Kehrli, and Rebecca Early. Their creations will be rated for taste and nutritional value!

• Food and Waste Educational Activities, 10am – 5pm, includes FREE hands on learning for the whole family.

• Community Outreach Tables, 10am – 5 pm, provides FREE information, insights and materials by local food, farm and culinary organizations.

• Food Trucks, 11am – 5pm (cash only)

• Ballard Food Bank Drive -Donations accepted. (Click on link below for additional details)


For more info. go here.