Culinary Wellness: A Recipe for Success With Chef Frank Turner

When

Sunday September 20, 2015: 3:00pm to 5:00pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room

Description

Culinary wellness engages people to eat healthy, one meal at a time. In the history of eating, it was a short trip from a time when most people grew up on farms and every family had a garden to grow the produce they ate to the post-industrial, highly processed fast — and fat — food that now surrounds us. Along the way, cooking at home got lost unintentionally and our diet became less healthy. Instead of promoting wellness, our diet promotes illness.

How can we get back to cooking for wellness? Restaurant consultant Chef Frank Turner explains what happened to us, how to introduce foods that promote wellness into your diet, why “health food” is not always so healthy, and how changing your diet one meal at a time can change our community. He’ll even serve samples of healthy snacks that are easily prepared, with recipes to take home to try yourself.

Chef Frank Turner has served as a past Instructor for Share our Strength "Operation Front Line," and also a past Director for the Detroit chapter of Slow Foods USA. He is passionate about working with local farmers and Michigan food suppliers to provide ultra-fresh and, when possible, certified organic products for all his guests. He believes the fresher the food, the better the flavor and nutritional value, which in turn improves the health of the entire community. Chef Frank currently enjoys working as a consultant for fine dining restaurants, health care food service, retirement communities, and school systems.

This event is cosponsored by The Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor, an organization of scholars, cooks, food writers, nutritionists, collectors, students, and others interested in the study of culinary history and gastronomy