FOOD DAY KC - Saturday, October 22, 2011 @ CITY MARKET

2011 Food Day Fair Challenges Greater Kansas City to Eat Real

Fairgoers Can Explore Ways to Eat Healthy, Locally and Sustainably

The Food Day Fair, SATURDAY, Oct. 22, 2011, challenges the Greater Kansas City community to eat real, whether it is one ingredient, one meal, all day or every day.  Real food is local, healthy and sustainable food, and area experts at the fair, held at the City Market in Kansas City, Mo. from 9 a.m. to noon, will share free information about finding, cooking, preserving, growing, understanding and advocating real food.  The fair also will highlight ways the community can create a stronger, healthier, more accessible local food system for all people in the Kansas City area.

The fair is just one of several events celebrating a new, national event called Food Day. Held each year on Oct. 24, Food Day is modeled after Earth Day and was created by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest. Food Day organizers in cities across the country hope to inspire their communities to support and eat local, healthy, sustainable food each year on Oct. 24 by holding events, initiating community projects or simply encouraging people to think about how they eat. 

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The Greater Kansas City Food Day Planning Committee represents more than 15 agencies, organizations, businesses and individuals in the metro area that support local, healthy and sustainable food.  

For more information, please contact Cheri LeBlond, Food Day Planning Committee member and Kansas City Food Circle Co-Coordinator at 913-558-9496 or 

cheri (a) kcfoodcircle . org 

Visit http://FoodDay.org for more information about the national event.

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2011 Food Day Fair Celebrates Real Food

• When:       9 a.m. to 12 p.m., Saturday, October 22, 2011

Who:          The Greater Kansas City Food Day Planning Committee, representing more than 15 area agencies, organizations, businesses and individuals that support “real food,” which is local, healthy and sustainable. 

What:         The 2011 Food Day Fair challenges the Kansas City community to eat real on Food Day, October 24, 2011, whether it is one ingredient, one meal, all day or every day.  To help the community do this, the Food Day Fair will share free information, chef demonstrations, food samples, kid’s activities and ways to create a stronger, healthier, more accessible local food system.

Where:      City Market, 20 East 5^th St., Kansas City, Mo.

Why:          Food Day is a new national, annual event.  Modeled after Earth Day and created by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, Food Day inspires America to support healthy, affordable food grown in a sustainable, humane way. Cities across the country will inspire communities to eat real each year on Oct. 24 by holding events, initiating community projects or simply encouraging people to think about how they eat.  The Food Day Fair is one of many events celebrating Food Day in Greater Kansas City. 

How:          The public can visit ten information tables that explore how to eat “real food.” Themes include cooking, preservation, advocacy, gardening and nutrition. 

Contact:   Cheri LeBlond, Food Day Planning
Committee member and Kansas City Food Circle
Co-coordinator, 913-558-9496,
cheri (a) kcfoodcircle . org

For more information on the national event, please visit http://FoodDay.org