Mark your calendar!

Food Day 2013 is Wednesday, October 23rd and the planning begins NOW!

The University of Arizona Food Day Committee is made up of representatives from across our campus who are passionate about food. We care about health and the environment and are excited to begin planning activities and events that inspire our campus to eat real.

Learn more about Food Day and our events in 2012. If you’d like to join the Food Day Team, please contact:

Hana A. Feeney, MS, RD

520-626-6265

HanaFeeney@email.arizona.edu

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Food Day is about bringing us together to begin a genuine and all-inclusive conversation about the way we produce, consume and think about food in this country and on this campus. Food encompasses a wide array of issues and voices that we intend to bring together at the UA Food Day Fair.

Eat Real

The goal of Food Day is to celebrate the concepts of Eat Real. What does that mean? To Eat Real means that you vote with your fork for foods that are sustainable, humane, healthy, accessible and safe, which will ultimately improve our food system and the health of our bodies, minds and the environment.

Show your support for Real Food by attending the UA Food Day Fair! Stop by and bring a friend. Your support will help your community, and you are sure to leave the Fair feeling inspired by all the wonderful foods and information that you’ll find under the huge white tent outside the Union on the UA Mall. Here are some things you can do at the UA Food Day Fair:

• Sample fresh local veggies prepared by a student-chef
• Sign up to volunteer at the Community Food Bank or with the Iskashiita Refugee Network
• Learn more about Students for Sustainability and the Student Health Advocacy Committee that work to improve access to healthy and sustainable foods
• Check out all the community gardens that we have on and off campus
• Try the sushi-grade salmon that is brand new to the campus
• Watch a food demo and taste mesquite flour pancakes made from mesquite pods collected from right here on the UA campus
• See local Celebrity Chef Ryan Clark whip local foods into a delicious meal

Top all that off with a healthy dose of sunshine as you enjoy lunch on the Mall. Buy a burger (cash only) or bring your lunch to enjoy with hundreds of other foodies and friends.

All of the exhibits and events at the UA Food Day Fair are aimed at fixing the food system by:

• Promoting safe, healthy foods to improve mental and physical health
• Support sustainable farming
• Expand access to healthy and sustainable food on the UA campus
• Protect the environment and animals by reforming factory farming methods

Part of something bigger

The UA Food Day Fair is one of hundreds of events with thousands of participants nationwide. Celebrations of the second annual Food Day will take place on college campuses and farms and in schools, grocery storms and food banks. Food Day is founded and sponsored by the Center for Science in the Public Interest with support from leaders in the Food Movement, including Michael Pollan and Alice Waters.

Our UA Food Day Fair will be one more grassroots event driven by students and staff from all across the UA campus that demands real food where you will learn all about how you can Eat Real and find new opportunities to get involved in the food movement in Tucson and on the UA campus.

Have you ever enjoyed a meal sitting on the UA Mall? It’s sunny; the grass is green; it’s beautiful; our campus is amazing! Now, imagine that you are surrounded by other people all coming together to celebrate Food Day!

Join us to Meet & Eat at the UA Food Day Fair, Wednesday, October 24th, 10-2 pm! Bring your lunch or purchase lunch at the Fair. Tables and chairs are ready and waiting for you!

Bring your appetite!

In addition to taste tests at the exhibit tables and at the two food demos, UA Student Unions will be grilling up beef burgers and vegan burgers, and providing healthy options from the Red & Blue Market, a new line of to-go foods. Please bring cash to purchase foods at the UA Food Day Fair.

Want to know more? Check out the schedule of events, list of exhibitors and our sponsors

Questions? Please call Hana A. Feeney for more information, 520-626-6265 or email HanaFeeney@email.arizona.edu.

Wilbur will be on the prowl for delicious, healthy and sustainable food at the UA Food Day Fair, on Wednesday, October 24th. The Fair will be 10-2 pm; catch Wilbur from 11:30 am-12:30 pm.

What will Wilbur be doing at the Fair?

At 11:30 am he’ll be watching Executive Chef Ryan Clark’s food demo and learning how to make healthy and tasty meal with local foods. At noon, he’ll be enjoying the awesome UA Steel Drum Performance Band and applauding the declaration of Food Day in Tucson and on the UA Campus by Mayor Rothschild and campus leaders including Joel Hauff and Darci Thompson.

Wilbur will tour the UA Food Day Fair where he’ll learn more about healthy and sustainable foods. With over 20 different groups hosting interactive exhibits you and Wilbur will learn all about how you can eat for good health and to promote the health of the environment.

Eat lunch on the Mall??

That’s right-Meet up with friends and coworkers for lunch on the Mall. You will be able to catch Wilbur in the act at the Meet & Eat enjoying lunch on the Mall. Bring your own lunch or bring cash to buy lunch at the UA Food Day Fair and enjoy our beautiful campus.

See you at the Fair!

• Wednesday, October 24th
• 10-2 pm
• On the UA Mall

Contact Hana A. Feeney, MS, RD with more questions, 520-626-6265, HanaFeeney@email.arizona.edu

Executive Chef is Ryan Clark, a native Tucsonan, is gearing up for the UA Food Day Fair. He will be demonstrating an Asian Noodle Salad that focuses on healthy local food. Chef Clark’s  farm-to-table concept and slow food motif is an ideal complement to the casual elegance of Lodge on the Desert and will be exciting to watch at the UA Food Day Fair.

Catch his food demo at 11:30 am on Wednesday, October 24 at the UA Food Day Fair!

Chef Clark  graduated from The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, on the Dean’s List and near the top of his class, and he was was selected by The American Culinary Federation as one of the top sixteen junior chefs across the nation.

Since graduating he has worked in New York City, at the Sanctuary Resort in Paradise Valley, Arizona, at world-renowned Canyon Ranch Health Resort and The Dish Bistro. In 2009 and 2010 Chef Clark competed head-to-head for first place in the Tucson Meet Yourself Iron Chef Competition with legendary Chef Albert Hall (2009) and Tucson Country Club’s Ken Foy (2010). Each year Ryan won! Throughout his culinary adventures, Ryan also cooked for such personalities as Wayne Gretzky, Britney Spears, Sting, Will Smith and Jennifer Aniston.

His culinary philosophy is straightforward. “Our approach to cooking is simple. We start with the freshest products and ingredients, most locally grown and locally sourced. And we believe our guests have a right to know the source of the food they are enjoying as well as the methods used to prepare it. Our role is to facilitate the food’s journey from farm to fork.”

Be sure to mark your calendar for the UA Food Day Fair on Wednesday, October 24, 10-2 pm on the UA Mall. We’ll see you there!!