Podcasts about food literacy center

Hey green thumbs! This week Kevin visits the Food Literacy Center in Sacramento to learn how they inspire kids to eat their vegetables through education in gardening and cooking. Learn more and donate directly to make a difference at FoodLiteracyCenter.orgListen to Amber's podcast: Raising KaleGreen Acres Garden PodcastGreen Acres Nursery & SupplyGreen Acres Garden Podcast GroupIn the greater Sacramento area? Learn how to make your yard Summer Strong and discover water-saving rebates at BeWaterSmart.info.

Ever wondered how childhood entrepreneurial ventures can shape a successful business career? Join me, Kelly Brothers, as Brad Squires, CEO of Sacramento Venture Philanthropy, shares his transformative journey from a young boy selling mistletoe with his brothers in Woodland, California, to co-founding a global B2B maintenance management software company, Maintenance Connection. Brad's stories offer a nostalgic look at the early lessons he learned, including responsibility and cash flow management, which have profoundly impacted his approach to entrepreneurship and philanthropy. Discover how Brad's passion for innovation led him to create Sacramento Venture Philanthropy, an organization that applies venture fund principles to support local nonprofits. We explore the unique challenges and opportunities faced by these nonprofits in the Sacramento region and how initiatives like the Fast Pitch program empower them to effectively communicate their missions and secure vital resources. Brad shares success stories, such as the Food Literacy Center, and discusses how SVP bridges the gap between traditional nonprofit management and rigorous business practices. Finally, we discuss the importance of community engagement and capacity building, offering insights into how strategic initiatives can bolster nonprofit organizations. Brad introduces us to innovative programs like Think Tankathons and the "five T's" of being a generous partner. We also touch on understanding fiduciary duty in financial advising, highlighting the need for transparency and vigilance when navigating financial services. This episode promises to leave you inspired by Brad's journey and enlightened on the intersection of entrepreneurship and philanthropy. To learn more about SVP visit: https://www.svpsacramento.org/ For more information on what we provide at CAPTRUST visit www.captrust.com. You can contact me, Kelly Brothers, through the show at: bisifipodcast@gmail.com To reach me at CAPTRUST visit www.captrust.com/locations/sacramento-ca/ Chapter Summaries(00:10) CEO Brad Squires Talks Entrepreneurship Entrepreneur Brad Squires shares his journey from childhood business to co-founding a successful software company, blending entrepreneurship and philanthropy. (10:04) Childhood Paper Routes Nature's unique experiences of running a flower farm business, selling mistletoe, and early entrepreneurial ventures. (18:28) Venture Philanthropy and Fast Pitch Program SVP uses venture fund approach to support nonprofits in Sacramento region, bridging gap between traditional management and business practices. (27:58) Success Stories of Fast Pitch Program Fast pitch in Sacramento helps organizations articulate their mission, with high-powered partners and volunteer coaches, leading to success stories and collaborations. (36:56) Community Engagement With Sacramento Nonprofits SVP provides strategic philanthropy through programs like Fast Pitch and Think Tankathons, emphasizing capacity building and the five T's. (49:12) Understanding Fiduciary Financial Advisors Fiduciary duty in financial advising: understanding fees, prioritizing clients' best interests, and transparency in financial arrangements.

First 5 California's new “Raise CA Strong” awareness campaign. ABC10's John Bartell talks about dam removals on the Klamath River. Finally, revisiting the work of Sacramento's Food Literacy Center. Raise CA Strong Childcare Campaign

In this summer re-play, we are re-posting an episode from 2019 with Amber K. Stott, Founding Executive Director of the Food Literacy Center, a local non- profit that works to teach children to love their veggies!

CAL FIRE provides an update as wildfire season picks up. Addressing Sacramento's high number of fatal pedestrian and cyclist accidents. Finally, how the Food Literacy Center encourages healthy eating habits. CAL FIRE Wildfire Updates As summer continues to heat up and the hillsides turn from green to brown, fire safety should be at the top of everyone's minds. Nick Schuler, Deputy Director of Communications/Incident Awareness for CAL FIRE joins Insight with the latest on fires burning in Northern California, as well as what to expect for wildfires this year. Cyclist and Pedestrian Safety in Sacramento More than 60 people have died in Sacramento County this year from car crashes. The region was recently ranked as the 20th most dangerous region for pedestrians by the nonprofit Smart Growth America, but the city's recently-adopted budget includes no new funding for addressing the growing number of traffic fatalities. Sacramento District 1 Councilmember Lisa Kaplan and Debra Banks, Executive Director of Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates talk about what can be done to make the roads safer for pedestrians and cyclists. Food Literacy Center If you're desperate to get your kids to eat their veggies and can't seem to convince them otherwise, there's a Sacramento nonprofit dedicated to changing their minds. The Food Literacy Center has been teaching kids in Sacramento schools how to make healthy food choices since 2011. Founder and CEO Amber Stott speaks with CapRadio's Jen Picard about the center's mission.

In the first episode of It Has To Be Me, Tess Masters interviews Amber Stott, the founder and CEO of Food Literacy Center about the importance of being the change you want to see in your community. They discuss Amber's journey of starting a nonprofit and her passion for food advocacy, and explore the challenges she faced and the opportunities she seized to make a difference in her school district. Amber shares her philosophy of embracing “failure,” and the importance of letting go of tasks that are not hers to hold. She also discusses the value of storytelling, taking risks, asking questions, and working as a team to create a culture of ownership within her organization. KEY THINGS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE: Be The Change You Want To See: Amber saw a gap in the food system so she created Food Literacy Center to address childhood obesity, and empower kids with healthy food choices. What is Food Literacy? Amber defines Food Literacy as: Understanding the impact of your food choices on health, environment, and economy, and knowing that those impacts are not equitably experienced. “Don't Ask, Don't Get.” Amber shares how she leveraged cooking for Jamie Oliver and Alice Waters to inspire local leaders to get involved with her mission. The Lesson about “No” From Alice Waters: Amber shares the importance of waiting for the “Yes” that fits with your vision, and the value of adaptability and seizing the right opportunities for growth and success. KEY MOMENTS IN THE PODCAST “We see the change every single day with our kids in terms of what they're eating. 50% of Americans are sick because of what they are eating. We can prevent this if we can get to our kids.” - Amber "It's not just about the success of me and just about the success of Food Literacy Center, but how we are building systems so that other people can replicate this work." - Amber “You'll never know unless you try it. And, the best time to start is today!” - Amber “Ignore the No's and focus on the next Yes. I never, ever hear the no. I'm simply hearing I didn't present it to you in the way that you'll say yes to right now." - Amber CONNECT WITH AMBER Food Literacy Center: https://www.foodliteracycenter.org/ Raising Kale Podcast: https://www.foodliteracycenter.org/podcast TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcJPCxpU3fY Food Anatomy For Kids: https://www.amazon.com/Food-Anatomy-Activities-Kids-Hands/dp/1648760244/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amberstott/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmberStottChiefFoodGenius Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ChiefFoodGenius CONNECT WITH TESS Website: https://tessmasters.com/ Podcast Website: https://ithastobeme.com/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theblendergirl/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theblendergirl/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/theblendergirl YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/theblendergirl LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tessmasters/ Product Sites: https://www.skinny60.com/ https://www.thedecadentdetox.com/ https://www.theblendergirl.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

September is Building CommYOUnity Month at SAFE Credit Union and the podcast team is celebrating with a nonprofit spotlight! On this episode of the Perfect Cents Podcast, Alex & Brit are joined by Amber Stott from Food Literacy Center, a Sacramento-based nonprofit. The mission of Food Literacy Center is to, "inspire kids to eat their vegetables" by teaching children in low-income elementary schools cooking, nutrition, gardening, and active play to improve our health, environment, and economy. Together, they discuss the amazing work that Food Literacy Center is doing in honor of Food Literacy Month, the positive impacts of enriching the lives of local youth and their families through healthy eating programs, and the uplifting power of community partnerships. There's simply no time like the present to get more involved in your community so tune in today to find out how you can support. Because eating your vegetables... just makes Perfect Cents! To check out some of the resources highlighted in this episode visit the links below. Food Literacy Center Food Literacy Month (September 1-30, 2023) Oak Park Farmer's Market  Oak Park Farmers Market relaunches with $500,000 grant under new nonprofit (ABC10) To contact the hosts, email us at Podcast@safecu.org  To register for an upcoming Financial Wellness webinar visit: https://www.safecu.org/community/events To read the latest edition of SAFE's Beyond Everyday Banking blog visit: https://blog.safecu.org/ To learn more about SAFE Credit Union products and services visit: https://www.safecu.org/ 

Should auld acquaintance be forgot... Join Alex & Brit as they wrap-up Season 3 and share the final updates on their annual goals! On this episode of the Perfect Cents Podcast our co-hosts recap the 52-Week Savings Challenge and their respective 22 for 2022 lists, all while reflecting on the biggest wins of the year and revealing the lessons they learned throughout the process. Additionally, they drop some hints about the 2023 Debt Payoff challenge that they will be embarking on in the New Year. Tune in to get the encouragement YOU need to keep working towards your goals and set the course for another year of continued personal and professional growth... because checking in on your goals and adjusting them when needed, just makes Perfect Cents! To check out some of the resources highlighted in this episode visit the links below. To read the Beyond Everyday Banking "52-Week Savings Challenge" blog and download the fillable PDF tracker visit: https://blog.safecu.org/52-week-savings-challenge *Note: 23 for 2023 is inspired by the Happier with Gretchen Rubin Podcast. For more information visit: https://gretchenrubin.com/resources To learn more about Food Literacy Center visit: https://www.foodliteracycenter.org/ To find a blood donation site near you visit: https://www.vitalant.org/ To contact the hosts, email us at Podcast@safecu.org  To register for an upcoming Financial Wellness webinar visit: https://www.safecu.org/community/events To learn more about SAFE Credit Union products and services visit: https://www.safecu.org/  Bonus! Alex's Top 5 Songs of 2022 1) Antihero, Taylor Swift 2) Eddie, Red Hot Chili Peppers 3) This Is Why, Paramore 4) Sidelines, Phoebe Bridgers 5) I Want a Dog, Weezer

Join me for a talk about exploring new cultures through food, traveling via the kitchen and dinner table, and making healthy eating accessible, fun, joyous and delicious for kids and adults everywhere. I chat with Amber Stott, the innovative founder of Sacramento's Food Literacy Center about understanding the impact of our food choices on our health, the environment and the economy.

In this week's episode, we hear from Lisa Gross, owner of League of Kitchens. She is one such human. She's the founder of a business that at every level values women in ways that are revolutionary. Packed into one company, she has managed to capture what America needs most right now: meaningful cultural exchange, putting women at the center of the story, celebrating diversity, celebrating immigrants, and being revolutionary by paying women for their talents (talents, I will add, that have been taken for granted historically as household “duties”).  As the daughter of a Korean immigrant and a Jewish New Yorker, Lisa Gross was raised on one grandmother's denjang-guk and the other's matzoh ball soup. Her company, The League of Kitchens, which employs immigrant women as in-home cooking instructors, is borne out of her passion for New York City, her love of cooking, and her connection to the immigrant experience. Lisa is an artist, educator, and social entrepreneur.

This week, I speak with Kara Heckert, a regional director at the nonprofit American Farmland Trust. Its mission is to save America's farms and ranches. Kara works there on agricultural sustainability and natural resource conservation in California. America's farmers are facing some very real challenges right now. Wildfires, drought, loss of farmland, and a history of discrimination. In this episode, we look more closely at all these issues. 

Today, we're talking about rice with farmer Michael Bosworth!  California grows 20 percent of America's rice, and nearly all of the country's sushi rice. Ninety-seven percent of the state's rice farms are located in the Sacramento Valley.  One of these farms is run by Michael, who comes from a family of farmers dating back to the 1870s. He went to college to study farming and has been a farmer his whole life. The man has rice in his veins! Michael is a different kind of rice farmer. While the majority of California rice is grown for sushi, Michael has shifted to nurturing unique varieties of grains grown less with a focus on yield and instead with a focus on flavor. His new company, True Origin Foods, was a small idea before the pandemic hit. Today, with the rise in home cooking and the growing consumer desire to buy local, Michael's business model is thriving.   

Dates are such a fascinating desert fruit. They grow on date palm trees, which may be one of the oldest cultivated trees in the world, dating back over 5,000 years. They're not only tasty, but they're a pretty cool food to learn about, too. Today's guest teaches us all sorts of fun facts. I learned so much talking to her!  Like, did you know that dates are considered a berry? Or that the dried fruit is more than 50 percent sugar?  Joan Smith runs Rancho Meladuco Date Farm in Coachella Valley, California. She's a CPA who shifted her career to date farming. She's a mother, a home cook, and a backyard gardener. Her dates are so delicious, they've been featured in Bon Appetite and Oprah magazines!  She shares her favorite date recipes, fun facts about date plants, tales of her farm dogs, and how she makes a point to give back to her community! 

As Americans search for ways to cook more at home with limited time, the blender provides easy answers. It's a useful tool in our search for healthier eating, too. What easier way to turn kale into breakfast?  In a recent study, 54% of consumers said they care more about the healthfulness of their food and beverage choices in 2020 than a decade ago. People want to eat healthy, and Tess leverages the blender to help them learn how. Tess Masters is an actor, lifestyle personality, and cookbook author. She's been featured in the LA Times, Washington Post, Glamour, and more. She was recently the spokesperson for KitchenAid. She runs the popular website, The Blender Girl. 

In this episode we chat with Amber Stott, Founder and CEO of the nonprofit Food Literacy Center in Sacramento, California.  The Food Literacy Center offers cooking and nutrition classes to elementary school kids in low-income schools, helping them develop healthy habits to last a lifetime!  Amber describes the amazing work she does in her community and we discuss simple steps parents everywhere can take to encourage their kids to eat more fruits and veggies!

In one survey, 93% of respondents said they wanted to eat healthier. In another survey, 49% of people said they want to eat mindfully, rather than dieting.  Today's guest is one of these Americans--a busy mom who wanted to leave a better food legacy for her family, so she started a meal planning company, The Fresh 20. In this episode, we talk about her tips for being practical in the kitchen, how she raises healthy children, and how she feels inside her healthier body.  Melissa Lanz is a former marketing executive who quit her day job to focus on healthy food. She's an author of the book The Fresh 20, and runs a meal planning service with the same name. She's been featured in The New York Times, Instyle, among others, and as a contributing editor for Shape Magazine. She's also a wonderful cook, a mother, and a good human.   

I'm excited to introduce you to Beth Lee. She grew up enjoying her grandma's traditional Jewish baked goods, but they were never written down. So, Beth took a journey, interviewing people across the world to capture and publish a new cookbook based on essential Jewish baking from across the diaspora. It's a beautiful story of family, culture, and tradition. 

Welcome to Season 2 of Raising Kale! In Season 1, I asked our guests what listeners like you can do to become "Kale Raisers" and improve your own communities. Their #1 answer? Eat local and get to know your farmers. So, in Season 2, Farmers & Families, I'll be talking to more farmers. We'll learn about what they're growing, and how they're innovating, and what they're doing to improve their communities in addition to feeding people.  We start Season 2 in America's Farm-to-Fork Capital, Sacramento, California. Our farmer, Sara Bernal, works on an urban farm that's run by the nonprofit, Center for Land-Based Learning.   Urban farming takes place in cities on small plots, not in the country. The average farm size in America in 2012 was 434 acres! But the majority of urban farms are just 5 acres or less.  According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, a quarter of the world's urban population gets their food from urban farms. 15% of the world's food is grown in cities. As more and more of the world's population lives in cities, our food supply and our farmers are moving there, too.  Urban farmers like Sara Bernal are keenly aware of the needs of their communities and are not only growing food to feed them, but also rising up to meet social needs like hunger. Sara Bernal is a farmer, a community activist, a rad human, and a true Kale Raiser! She has lived and worked around the world from Bangladesh to Italy, but it's in West Sacramento, California where she's transforming her community through food. She's the program manager for the nonprofit Center for Land-Based Learning, where she runs an urban farm program that trains new farmers, feeds the hungry, and tirelessly makes the world a better place. 

We all love good food, but did you know that what people eat during their younger years can hugely impact their eating habits and choices in the long run? If you want kids to be healthy, you gotta start them young.This existing problem is what Amber Stott wants to address through food and nutrition literacy programs. Listen to how she talks passionately about the importance of childhood nutrition in schools. She also speaks about the unfamiliarity of people on local produce, her experiences with nonprofit organizations and food banks like Freedom from Hunger, working with nutrition and education experts and world-renowned chefs like Jaime Oliver and Alice Waters, and the hopes in building a cooking school integrated with the usual classroom schedule in the near future.Amber Stott is a food activist and author who founded the nonprofit Food Literacy Center, focused on educating and changing the kids' attitude towards food. She also started farm to school state-wide programs and pushed forward a resolution declaring every September as Food Literacy Month in California. Show Highlights:[18:55] There's only 4% of the kids in America, in all of America, we only have 4% of kids who eat the recommended amount of daily vegetables.[25:06] Food Literacy Center's approach was always not to reverse childhood obesity but to get out in front of it, same as what we're doing in Covid. We wanted to prevent childhood obesity in the kids that we serve, we don't want them to ever face that problem.[38:10] This is about raising the bar of the importance of food literacy education within the school system. Food education is as important as science and reading and math and that's the kind of systems change that we ultimately want to see.Guest Links:Amber Stott wrote a hands-on guide book for children entitled ‘Food Anatomy Activities for Kids: Fun, Hands-On Learning' and talks about how people can use food to make the world a better place in her podcast called Raising Kale. You can donate and volunteer in the Food Literacy Center here.

David Lebovitz started his culinary career at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California, working with Chef Alice Waters (episode 4 guest). He's been featured in Oprah, Bon Appetit, and many more culinary publications. In 2019, Saveur magazine awarded his website their first-ever Blog of the Decade. David shares his journey from washing dishes in a strip mall steakhouse to living in Paris.

In an era of fake news, information about our food is not immune. Myths and misinformation abound. 21% of respondents in one study said they get their nutrition advice from social media. At a time when rates of hunger are rising, farm land is disappearing, and over half of Americans are sick from their diets, we can't afford to get this wrong.  Lucky for us, there are thoughtful journalists like Danielle who are breaking through the noise.  Danielle Nierenberg is the president and co-founder of the nonprofit think tank, Food Tank. The nonprofit focuses on building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters. In other words, they keep consumers informed about issues affecting our food. Danielle has traveled the world to learn about solutions to our broken food system.

This week we hear from scientist Michael Mazourek, who's designing new vegetables as a seed breeder with Row 7 Seed Company. He's doing something radical with our food--he's making it taste better! He is an actual kale raiser--as in, he breeds the seeds that grow vegetables! It all started with a challenge from chef Dan Barber to build a better butternut squash. The result is the delicious and widely available honeynut squash!

You may have heard the rumors that school lunch is broken. But have you heard the one about how school lunch is being done RIGHT?! Today, you're going to hear how school lunch is supposed to be done! My nonprofit is fortunate to work in a school district alongside a school lunch program that breaks barriers. I can't wait for you to meet their leader. Diana Flores wants to transform school kitchens into school restaurants. She serves as the director of Nutrition Services for California's 3rd largest school district, Sacramento City Unified. It's a low-income school district that's cooking up 30,000 school lunches per day! Forget what you think you know about school lunch. Flores and her team are on a mission to make school food not only taste great, but to also meet high health standards.

There are currently an estimated 42 million Americans who are food insecure, or hungry, according to Feeding America. Of those, 13 million are children. What is the #1 cause of hunger? It's not a lack of food. It's a lack of jobs, or jobs that don't pay enough. It's about money. In order to truly end hunger, we have to overturn the traditional model of food distribution and attack the problem at its source. Robert Egger made a career of doing this very thing. He started DC Central Kitchen in 1989 to work with formerly incarcerated and homeless Americans to create jobs and feed others. He served there for 24 years, and has since worked to tackle issues of food contracts in government institutions, senior hunger, national food policy, uplifting the nonprofit sector, and so much more.  This episode goes out to all the O.G. kale raisers who paved the way for the work this podcast celebrates today--getting into good trouble using food as a tool for change. 

Rates of both poverty and hunger are rising in America. The statistics are dire. The number of people living below the federal poverty line in the United States remains stuck at recession-era record levels. Poverty rates have grown even higher since the pandemic hit last year.  A Northwestern University study in June revealed that food needs have doubled nationally. For households with children, food insecurity tripled!  One nonprofit in San Diego, California, Kitchens for Good, has created a dual solution for this double-edged problem: train community members who are food insecure in culinary careers. By training them for better jobs, their families will no longer suffer from poverty and food insecurity. For every person they train and help find employment, that is one less family living in poverty and going without food. In this episode, we talk to one of the nonprofit's founders, Aviva Paley, as well as one of their trainees, Tony Estrada. Tony tells me that his life has never been a fairy tale. But when he started the training at Kitchens for Good, his life was transformed.   

Two generations of Americans don't know how to cook. We have to look back to our grandmothers and mothers to learn the recipes we grew up eating. In the current pandemic, people are returning to their kitchens. When mom or grandma are not around, who do we turn to for help? To the Internet--and to food bloggers like Lisa Lin.  Her recipe site, Healthy Nibbles, features delicious recipes that turn farmers market crops into healthy meals. A few years ago, Lisa started including something special on her website: her mom! Some of Lisa's most popular recipes are classic Chinese dishes she's learned from Mama Lin, like scallion pancakes.

This week's episode we talk to we talk to Alexandra Garcia, Chief Program Officer for the World Central Kitchen, a non-profit whose goal is to change the world through the power of food. She talks about building resilient, local food systems in countries like Haiti, Honduras and Costa Rica, and introduces us to Bread Fruit!

Can our food teach us values? Can eating seasonally change you? How is fast food harming our kids? The Pioneer of both the farm-to-fork and farm-to-school movements, Chef Alice Waters, shares her insights on the deep connection between our climate and our farmers, and how school lunch offers a solution.

Raising Kale's premier episode starts in the kitchen. Cooking is a radical act in today's fast food world. In fact, we have two generations of Americans who do not know how to cook from scratch. If we want to improve the health of Americans, we need to learn to cook again. For the large percentage of Americans who are still learning to cook, food blogs have become as popular as ever, with over two million to choose from online. Elise Bauer is one of the most successful food bloggers in the world. In 2003 she started Simply Recipes, a site that today has thousands of recipes and more than 8 million visitors a month. We start our food system journey looking in depth at one of the worlds most popular food blogs and learn how you can create change and raise kale in your own kitchen.

Increasing your knowledge about food is an act of Kale Raising. What we eat affects our health, the planet and our economy. What would happen if we knew the impacts of the food we eat on our planet and on our health. Would you make a different choice if you knew? In this episode, we talk with Ken Myska, a chef who worked in elite restaurants around the country, until he woke up along his culinary career path. That awakening caused a critical shift in the way he works with food, and led to his new journey as a CheFarmer.

How does food connect to social justice? And what does that have to do with school lunch? This episodes looks at the connection between hunger, school lunch and food justice. Krystal Oriadha is the Senior Director of Programs and Policy for the National Farm to School Network, and served on President Barack Obama's Presidential campaign. She shares the harrowing personal stories that drove her to commit her life to social justice.             

Kale Raiser: /kāl/ /ˈrāzər/ noun. A person who gets in good trouble, using food as a tool.  Host Amber Stott speaks with Kale Raisers across the country. In Season One, we learn what a Chefarmer is, how to use breadfruit to build resilience, and how a recipe for oxtail stew turned into one of the biggest websites around!  One Kale Raiser took her experiences as a Black youth in Texas to fuel a career of raising kale. Today, she's pressuring the federal school lunch program to create racial justice. We also talk to a guy who develops seeds for a living. He shares his mad science experiments with purple peas. His formal, lab-tested methodology for determining taste profiles? “Yuck” and “Yum”!  Do you plant seeds? Raise kids to eat healthy? Read food labels? Eat your vegetables? Then chances are, you're a kale raiser, too! 

Radio.com's newest podcast Raising Kale debuts on March 10. Damien Barling sat down with Amber Stott, the host of Raising Kale and the founder of the Food Literacy Center. Find out what "good trouble" these two get into and why Raising Kale should be in your podcast rotation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Amber Stott, the Director and Founder of the Food Literacy Center in Sacramento does everything with joy! It is baked into the entire culture of the Food Literacy Center which has been named non-profit of the year for Sacramento. Amber has been named one of Sacramento's most powerful business leaders, one of Food Tank's 17 Food Heroes to Inspire Us in 2017, along with giving a TED talk on how she gets kids to eat their broccoli. We talk about everything from eating cactus, to her Broccoli Boundaries and Radish routines, to how toilet bowl scrubbers help us clarify our values...Enjoy!Facebook: AmberStottChiefFoodGeniusInstagram: @ChiefFoodGeniusWebsite: www.foodliteracycenter.org

Childhood Obesity in the US with a special guest Amber Stott of the Food Literacy Center https://www.foodliteracycenter.org/

K-LOVE's Billie Branham talks with Amber Stott from the Sacramento area Food Literacy Center about the importance of eating vegetables

Amber Stott of the Food Literacy Center discusses how food education, access and public health factors drove her to found the organization in 2011, and how, in the succeeding years, it developed into a model for bringing food education to schools. Learn more and support the organization at foodliteracycenter.org.

**This event was recorded on April 30, 2019** This "Groundbreakers Q&A" is with two guys who know their way around a kitchen. Rick Mahan and Patrick Mulvaney are Sacramento's Top Chefs. Their restaurants, The Waterboy (opened in 1996) and Mulvaney B&L (in 2006), set the bar for fine dining in Sacramento, and they're still atop the list of places worth opening up your wallet for a memorable meal. When they're not cooking, they're still doing plenty to promote good food, boost Farm to Fork efforts, and improve Sacramento's dining scene. Mahan is a big supporter of the Food Literacy Center, and Mulvaney is getting national attention for his efforts to tackle the mental health crisis in the restaurant industry. Join us for a great conversation with these two seasoned veterans of the city's ever-changing, often-challenging restaurant scene as we talk with them about Michelin stars, minimum wage hikes, the mental health movement, farmers markets, and other things that are shaping their menus today. PODCAST PLAY-BY-PLAY * O min to 5 min - Intro to California Groundbreakers * 5 min - The chefs introduce themselves and talk about what food they're loving right now (like fava beans and wild boar) * 7:30 min - First memories of food, and first experiences in the kitchen * 11:50 min - What brought Mulvaney, an Irishman from Long Island, out West, what kept him in Sacramento, and how his restaurant got his name * 14:05 min - Mahan's journey from washing dishes at Buffet Excellence at age 16, to having a life-changing experience in France * 20:45 min - What happened in those first few days, weeks and months of opening the new restaurant * 26:35 min - The pros and cons of serving Sacramentans as restaurant diners * 31:15 min - How to address changing tastes, trends and younger customers * 37 min - What the chefs are working on now outside the kitchen * 44:50 min - The Food Network effect: What do these TV shows overhype and downplay in the restaurant industry that we customers should know about as reality? * 53:40 min - The dish from Americo's (where the Waterboy stands today) that Mahan promises to make if you request it * 56 min - Thoughts on tasting menus, "tweezer plating," and the upcoming Michelin guide on Sacramento restaurants * 1 hr, 1:50 min - The pros and cons of running a restaurant -- especially in California * 1 hr, 7:05 min - The biggest challenge -- and fear -- the chefs are facing * 1 hr, 11:50 min - Thoughts on California's agriculture industry, and the future for farmers * 1 hr, 14:10 min - How the Waterboy got its name (it wasn't the Adam Sandler movie) * 1 hr, 20:15 min - Workforce development: How do we train the people who will run Sacramento's restaurants in the future? * 1 hr, 30:15 min - Best piece of advice for someone just starting out in this business * 1 hr, 32:10 min - Best piece of advice for amateur chefs in the kitchen

I talk to "Food Literacy Center" founder and Chief Food Genius Amber Stott about developing healthy habits, teaching kids to cook, and fighting food insecurity and childhood obesity with fruits and vegetables.

Amber Stott, Founder and Executive Director (and Chief Food Genius) of the Food Literacy Center, stopped by to chat for Episode 132. Amber and I chat about the cornucopia of puns at the Food Literacy Center; why Amber started the The post Episode 132: Amber Stott appeared first on Serious Talk. Seriously..