12th Annual Aiwf/ny Days Of Taste Program Set For October

From Manhattan to Brooklyn, chefs, teachers, food professionals and culinary students are gearing-up to present the 12th Annual AIWF/NY Days of Taste. in October to more than 1,700 public school children presented by The American Institute of Wine & Food/New York Chapter. AIWF/NY Days of Taste is a discovery-based program for fourth and fifth grade children to learn about food and how it weaves its way through daily life from the farm to the table.
The program teams up chefs, food professionals, farmers and teachers to guide elementary school children through a four-week curriculum that includes exploration of taste, a visit with a local farmer or visit to a Greenmarket, preparation of a harvest salad, and a trip to the chef's restaurant for a behind-the-scenes tour and lunch.
This will be the sixth year that Spoons Across America. will proudly produce AIWF Days of Taste in New York City. It will take place in a record 65 classrooms in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
"In this age of fast and frozen foods, we want to teach school children about real food-where it is grown and how it is produced-so they can develop an understanding and appreciation of how good, fresh food is supposed to taste," -Julia Child, Co-founder of AIWF-American Institute of Wine and Food.

AIWF Days of Taste. helps children...
 Build a food and nutrition vocabulary
 Understand that locally grown foods are freshest
 Experience and compare tastes
 Develop "taste memories"
 And provide social food experiences around the table
*Press are invited to cover the following events, Photos Ops include:
September 7 Chef Training Cafi Centro, MetLife Building 9:30-11:00a.m.
October 3-6 Week 1 Classroom exploration of ABC's of Taste and Health
October 10-13 Week 2 Visit by local farmer, visit to Greenmarket
October 17-20 Week 3 Classroom preparation of a Harvest Salad
October 24-27 Week 4 Visit to Chef's Restaurant, tour and lunch

The Days of Taste. trademarks and copyrights are the sole and exclusive property of
The American Institute of Wine & Food (AIWF). Days of Taste. is a national program
of The AIWF implemented throughout America by a majority of its 28 chapters in cities
throughout the USA. The AIWF New York Chapter has engaged Spoons Across America.
to implement the AIWF Days of Taste. program in the New York area solely on behalf
of the AIWF New York Chapter. To learn more about the AIWF Days of Taste. program
in your area, please contact The American Institute of Wine & Food national office at
(800) 274-2493 or visit www.aiwf.org.
If you're interested in the AIWF New York Chapter Days of Taste. program,
please contact the AIWF New York Chapter at 718-229-6565.


Spoons Across America., the not-for-profit national children culinary and nutrition
education resource, produces the AIWF Days of Taste. for the New York Chapter in
collaboration with The James Beard Foundation, NYC College of Technology/Hospitality
Management, Art Institute of NYC, French Culinary Institute, The Institute of Culinary
Education, New York University, Greenmarket-NYC Council on the Environment,
NY Women's Culinary Alliance, Slow Food NY and Just Food.
For more information about Spoons Across America~the source for children's culinary education.,
please visit www.spoonsacrossamerica.org.