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FoodService Partners’ management team visits the new facility. (Bob Dunn)
Sustainable ingredients from arugula to zucchini can be found at the new Union City Food Culinary Center, which opened its doors Jan.16. The center will generate 50,000 healthy meals each day for hospitals, schools, and other institutions throughout Northern California. Learn how the center is building resilience and increasing contracting opportunities for local farmers and food entrepreneurs of color.
Model for resilience
Announcing top 5 finalists in the 2020 Health Care Culinary Contest
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These five chefs, our Health Care Culinary Contest finalists, persevered to cook and serve healthy food when our patients and communities needed it the most.
Meet the chefs and hear the stories behind their delicious #plantforward recipes.
- Davis Hospital and Medical Center’s sweet potato tempura and black bean tacos
- MetroHealth System’s Spanish frijoles salad with plantain chips
- NYU Langone Health’s autumn vegetable curry
- Stanford Health Care’s adobo de la tierra
- Winchester Hospital’s pumpkin seed-encrusted eggplant rollatini
*Correction. An earlier draft of this article included Mayo Clinic Arizona and University of Mississippi Medical Center who are in the top 7 of all contest entrees but are not top 5 finalists.
Recipe round-up
5 ways the Biden-Harris administration should bolster resilient food systems
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Avon Johnson, director of Connecticut Mental Health Center's inpatient unit shops for fresh greens (Amy Etra)
We’re counting on the Biden-Harris administration to apply the many lessons we learned last year to create policy that supports a more inclusive, healthy, and resilient food system. From embracing food-related climate change solutions to supporting and empowering BIPOC farmers, here are the most important issues and policy actions we recommend the administration prioritize for the health of our communities and planet.
Our recommendations
Event: Ethical food purchasing protects workers
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March for food and farmworker dignity in New York, 2017 (Working Families Party/Flickr)
As large institutional purchasers, hospitals have a significant role to play in changing the story of farm and food chain workers, promoting fair wages and better working conditions. Check out our free webinar on Feb. 11.
To coincide with the webinar, we will be releasing an official position statement and purchasing guidance on ethical food purchasing. Graduate students from Mark Bittman’s course "The food justice movement: What does it mean for public health?" at Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University contributed to the development of these resources and the webinar.
Fair food
Visit our Healthy Food in Health Care program page to learn more about our work and how you can get involved.
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