Food Day-inspired meals, documentary screening, panel discussion

The Real Food Challenge sponsors Food Day and has mobilized students and faculty at 216 college campuses in 46 states to organize events on or around October 24. Food Day will celebrated at Saint Mary's College on Tuesday, October 25 and will include events open to the public.

There will be special lunch and dinner menus featuring organic and vegetarian recipes by world-renowned chefs, such as Emeril Lagasse and Jamie Oliver, who support the Food Day initiative. Dishes could include fennel and apple soup, Tuscan kale and white bean ragout, couscous salad with dried cranberries and pecans, chopped salad, and curried lentils with walnuts. Lunch and dinner will be served in the Noble Family Dining Hall and are open to the public. Lunch hours are from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and the cost is $8 per person ($4.10 for Saint Mary’s faculty and staff). Dinner hours are from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. and the cost is $10 per person ($6.42 or faculty and staff).

At 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. in Vander Vennet Theatre in the Student Center, the public is invited to attend a free screening of the food documentary “Forks over Knives.” The film examines the profound claim that most, if not all, degenerative diseases can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animal-based and processed foods. A panel discussion led by faculty and students, including Roland, will follow the 7 p.m. screening.

Read a press release about Food Day at Saint Mary's College.

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