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Save The Date! Eating Liberally and the Food Systems Network NYC invite you to join us
on May 3rd at 6:30 pm for a screening of Pressure Cooker, an uplifting
documentary about a hilariously tough (but loving) high  school
teacher in Philly named Wilma Stephenson who puts her underprivileged
urban students through a kind of culinary boot camp to help them win
scholarships to the country's best culinary schools
(think Rocky meets To Sir, With Love, with a dash of
Gordon Ramsey).
Rachael
Ray is so impressed by Wilma's extraordinary success at goading her
students into achieving their full potential that she surprised the
feared-but-adored teacher last month by gifting her with a
state-of-the-art makeover of her kitchen and classroom--to be unveiled,
coincidentally, on Rachael's May 3rd show.
The
screening will be followed by a discussion with Pressure Cooker director
Jennifer Grausman and Lynn Fredericks, the FamilyCook Productions founder
whose Teen Iron Chef program is empowering youth all over the country
by teaching them how to prepare fresh, wholesome foods and work as a
team.
Grausman and Fredericks will be joined by several youths whose lives
have been transformed by such cooking programs, including Fatoumata
Dembele, one of the stars of Pressure
Cooker, and Dexter Ambrose, a student at Brooklyn Automotive
High who has embraced healthy cooking and food gardening with the
encouragement of teacher Jenny Kessler, whose course entitled
"Food, Land, and You" was recently written up by the New York
Times.
Light refreshments
will be served.
Where:
The Tank, 354 W. 45th
Street between 8th and 9th Aves.
When:
6:30 doors open, 6:45 screening, 8:15 panel
Tickets
are $15 for FSNYC members, $20 for non-members, and $10 for
students/AmeriCorps Volunteers
Tickets
can be purchased here.
Proceeds from the
event will benefit the Food Systems Network NYC. To learn more or
become a member, visit www.foodsystemsnyc.org.
Interested
in other films about the food system? Also coming up:
Screening of the film Locavore
at the Harlem State
Office Building, 163
West 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. on Sunday May 2, 2010 at 4:30pm, by Barry Crumbley and Dr.
Robert J.Woodbine of San Bao Holistic Care. This forum will be focused
on letting folks know about the importance of growing their own food,
buying locally, getting to know their local farmers and sharing
thoughts and issues of the Black Farmer in America from a national
perspective.
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