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Cathy Powers will be the keynote speaker at the Nevada Dietetic Association’s Annual Meeting on April 25, 2008.
Cathy Powers will be the keynote speaker at the Nevada Dietetic Association’s Annual Meeting on April 25, 2008. She will present Knives, Stones and Steels : Sharpening Your Food and Nutrition Practice. Staying up-to-date with food and nutrition trends is essential and translating these trends into your nutrition practice is critical. This session will provide an overview of the current food trends and discuss the impact they have on nutrition practice.
Mary Kimbrough presented Catering to Health Conscious Guests at the 2008 catersource Conference & Tradeshow and Event Solutions Idea Factory on February 25, 2008 at the Las Vegas Hilton & Convention Center.
She spoke on meeting the needs of today’s corporate and social catering clients who are asking for food that is fresh and healthful as well as delicious and beautifully presented. As more customers request foods suitable for special nutrition concerns and for healthful eating, every caterer needs an array of options for moderating fat, calories and sodium and options for foods that can boost the nutritional quality of your menu offering.
Cathy Powers is working with the National Food Service Management Institute to develop training programs for the child nutrition market.
Cooks
for Kids, a series of nine 30 minute training programs, to showcase
the fact that children should have access to healthy food and be able
to make healthy food choices wherever they are – at home, in school and
out in the community. Reversing the childhood obesity epidemic is a shared
responsibility. It will take the commitment of parents, the foodservice
industry, the media, and schools working together to reverse the childhood
obesity trend. This series takes you to restaurants, schools, and homes
to show you how cooks use tested techniques of preparing and serving healthful,
appealing foods to kids. Cooks for Kids is a forum to demonstrate
how we can work together. Each episode focuses on healthful food and cooking
techniques at school but also in restaurants and homes. This integrated
look at the child’s total food experience is what makes Cooks for
Kids unique.
Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines is revising their culinary program with the Vitality Program and partner Mary Kimbrough is providing nutrition consulting.
Vitality
highlights healthful options for every guest; thereby encouraging
and educating guests towards achieving wellness in mind, body
and spirit. The theme of healthful eating is positive, exciting, authentic,
fresh, and will energize the guest for their next activity.
Mary Abbott Hess was keynote speaker at the Women's Health Expo in Kingston, NY on May 4, 2007.
SuperMarketing: Best Foods For Family Health merged the information from her books, The Supermarket Guide and Williams-Sonoma Essentials of Healthful Eating. Hess gave 50 tips for choosing the very best foods in each aisle of the grocery store. She spoke about what to look for on food labels, ingredients for a healthful kitchen and maximizing nutrition for your food dollar. Latest nutrition guidance was translated into food choices that you can buy and serve to promote the health of everyone who eats at your family table.
Food Roots and The American Institute of Wine & Food Weekend Tour of Texas Wineries in Beautiful Fredericksburg Texas
March 2 thru March 4, 2007 members of the Dallas Chapter of AIWF with Food Roots participated in a weekend of winery tours, wine tastings and Texas Hill Country dining in Fredericksburg, Texas. Everyone relaxed in the comfortable, casual pace of Fredericksburg with its German charm and Texas hospitality.
Tour hosts Mary Kimbrough and Mark Haley of Food Roots took their guests to some intimate small-production wineries where they meet and talked with the winemakers. And, of course we experienced the great food and wine from the Hill Country at August E and Natural Palate Cooking School.