24 Oct Happy Food Day 2011!!!
I know that I am super excited about this year's Food Day, which happens to also be today!
The Austin Events are listed here. For more ways to participate check out this email excerpt from CSpin.net's Michael F. Jacobson:
"If you are already planning to participate in a Food Day event, this is what I ask you to do: Please take still photos of your event, tag them with “Food Day” on Flickr and join our Flickr group. And, if you can take a short video of your Food Day event, please upload them to YouTube and tag them with the words “Food Day.” The Food Day staff will favorite these videos so they show up on the Food Day YouTube Channel. You can also collect signatures for the Food Day petition asking Congress for better food policies.
If you haven’t found a Food Day event near you, visit FoodDay.org use the map or type in your zip code. (Be patient as events take time to load in the map—a lot of people are visiting right now!) And of course you can keep up with Food Day by liking it on Facebook, following CSPI on Twitter, or by using the #FoodDay hashtag to participate in the national conversation.
If you want to create your own Food Day event at home with family or friends, we have a great dinner party kit collection of delicious recipes from celebrity chefs to get you started. If you want to raise money for a local food-related charity, you can enter a contest led by Epicurious.com and Whole Foods Market—winning entries will get their donations matched up to $1,000! We even have tips for Halloween, and Food Day pumpkin carving stencils.
Food Day continues to get great publicity, such as these articles in The Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Minneapolis Tribune, and the Portland Oregonian or my column in the Atlantic. You may have also seen this TV spot-featuring Morgan Spurlock-from our friends at the Cooking Channel, or this one from our friends at the wellness cable channel Veria Living.
Thanks again for reading—and for being a part of Food Day 2011."
I actually am amazed and ecstatic that Food Day is getting this much press and recognition, with hopes that the events taking place nationwide will garner public conversation and action for a healthier and more sustainable food system in the United States.
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