[OKC] FW: [Possible Spam]Update on Chef Ann Cooper - Lunch Sold Out - 2nd Presentation Offered 2pm March 10 UCO Pegasus Theater

[Jennifer Gooden]

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From: Slow Food OKC [mailto:slowfoodokc at yahoo.com]
Sent: Fri 2/23/2007 8:18 PM

We have had an absolutely wonderful response to the Chef Ann Luncheon and that event is now not accepting any reservations (sold out). 

However, Chef Ann and the Oklahoma presenters have graciously agreed to offer a second opportunity to see the presentations and have a discussion- at 2pm on Saturday, March 10th at UCO's Pegasus Theater.  We will be able to accomodate a larger group for the 2pm presentation.  Since we do have more room, please feel free to share this information with others who might be interested.  There is no charge for the presentation at 2pm.

Chef Ann Cooper, celebrated chef, author, educator and "Renegade Lunch Lady" will be in Oklahoma City as a featured speaker at a luncheon sponsored by Slow Food OKC, UCO and OK Fit Kids Coalition.  Chef Ann will speak about the incredible work she has done to transform the lunch program in the Berkeley , California Public Schools and will offer insights into what can be done in Oklahoma to improve the lunch program.  Additionally, we will have presentations by the OK Fit Kids Coaltion and the OK Farm to School Program describing what is currently underway in Oklahoma and how you can get involved.  

Booksigning for Chef Ann Cooper's new book Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed our Children immediately following the luncheon hosted by Full Circle Bookstore. 

Where: UCO Pegasus Theatre

When: Saturday, March 10, 2007 at 2pm

RSVP: slowfoodokc at yahoo.com <mailto:slowfoodokc at yahoo.com>  or Cristina at 440-6555.  Presentation is open to the public and complimentary.  Advance reservations requested.  (This is a second program - there will be an earlier 11am presentation that is now sold out)

Chef Ann Cooper is the Director of Nutrition Services for the Berkeley Public School System.  She was hired by the Chez Panisse Foundation (world renowned chef Alice Waters' foundation) to improve the lunch program in the public schools in Berkeley and to provide a model for school districts around the country.  Chef Ann did not always serve food in the cafeteria line.  She attended the Culinary Instiute of America, was named one of the "up and coming" chefs by Gourmet magazine and was the Executive Chef at the Putney Inn in Vermont before embarking on her current career as educator and reformer. In just one year under her direction, Berkeley Schools have gone from 95% processed foods to 95% made from scratch and every school is on track to have a fresh salad bar.  

According to Chef Ann, we won't have much hope for future generations of healthy kids unless we begin teaching them what good food really is.  The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has stated that 35 percent of our children are overweight, which statistically predicts that children born in the year 2000 will be the first in our nation's history to die at a younger age than their parents-we just can't allow this to happen.  Sadly, Oklahoma 's youth are some of the least healthy in the nation and childhood obesity is considered the number one health issue for children in our state.  

This is important!  

visit chef ann's website www.lunchlessons.org <http://www.lunchlessons.org/>  for more information and many interesting articles about child and adult nutrition.  

 

RENEGADE LUNCH LADY ISSUES CALL TO ACTION WITH LUNCH LESSONS

Who: Chef Ann Cooper, director of Nutrition Services for the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD)

What: Chef Ann is at the forefront of the movement to transform the National School Lunch Program into one that places greater emphasis on the health of students than the financial health of a select few agribusiness corporations. Chef Ann's lunch menus emphasize regional, organic, fresh foods, and nutritional education, helping students to build a connection between their personal health and where their food comes from. Chef Ann's newest book, Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children is bursting with strategies for parents and school administrators to become engaged with issues around school food-from public policy to corporate interest. It includes successful case studies of school food reform, resources that can help make a difference and healthy, kid-friendly recipes that can be made at home, or by the thousands for a public school cafeteria. 

As childhood obesity in the United States has exploded from 5 percent to 17 percent between 1980 and 2004, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Child Nutrition Program has failed to properly address this growing epidemic. With more than 28 million students participating in the National School Lunch Program and no organized national leadership in the battle against childhood obesity, Chef Ann is demanding that the issue become a part of the 2008 presidential race. And she is calling for all parents, teacher, school food service directors, family farmers - anyone with a vested interest in the future of our children - to join her in changing the way we feed our children, one school lunch at a time. 

Why: Chef Ann has proven her approach to incorporate regional, organic and fresh foods into public school menus can work and that simple changes within budget can be made. Accompanied with wellness education, her model of school food delivery can transform children's health and their approach to eating. She has taken this program from its pilot form at the Ross School , a private school in East Hampton , NY , to public school systems in Harlem and in Berkeley , CA - illustrating that change can happen anywhere with the support of the community, the schools, local government and most importantly, the parents and the kids. 



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