The ‘News’ Category

A Reusable Kitchen Tools Drive for Earth Day

During the Earth Day Event, Nourishing NYC will collect your gently used spare kitchen gadgets and small applicances such as peelers, knife sharpeners, mixing bowls, mini-food processors, pots and pans, to support one of our partners , GEMS-Girls, an organization that provides education, advocacy, therapeutic support and housing to hundreds of New York women who are starting [...]

Posted on April 11, 2012

Columbia Community Outreach (CCO) Take over Nourishing NYC

Columbia Community Outreach (CCO) students helped to nourish Harlem through springs first urban produce program of 2012 at Nourishing NYC. Twenty dedicated Columbia Community Outreach (CCO) students came out on March 31st, 2012 to distribute fresh produce and healthy diabetic friendly recipes in underserved supermarket dessert East Harlem. “I am very impressed with the passion [...]

Posted on April 2, 2012

Healthy Home Plate Spring Training and Seasonal Eating

Its not just pitchers and catchers getting in shape this spring. The spring Healthy Home Plate Program Chefs learned this week about the benefits of eating locally and seasonally. They had the chance to create mini-gardens to take home with them and incorporate produce in a comfort food favorite macaroni and cheese.  Recipe below. No-Bake Macaroni & Cheese http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/no_bake_macaroni_cheese.html From EatingWell:  April/May 2006, EatingWell Serves Two Not only [...]

Posted on March 25, 2012

Johnny’s Select Seeds Helping to Spout Healthy Eating in the Bronx

Nourishing would like to thank Johnny’s Select Seeds for their generous donation of seeds for Nourishing’s Junior Chef Program. Each year Johnny’s donates thousands of dollars to educational, agricultural and horticultural programs and events as well as local community efforts. They proudly support Farmland Trust Maine Agriculture in the Classroom, Organic Farming Research Foundation, Cornell Cooperative [...]

Posted on March 14, 2012

Successful Spring Healthy Home Plate Program Begins

The New York Yankees rolls out 3rd Healthy Home Plate Program with nutritional partnership with Nourishing NYC. In this four week program Bronx students participate in the Yankees’ Healthy Home Plate Program, which allows them to meet weekly with a team of Yankee Stadium chefs and Nourishing NYC nutritional experts to learn how to cook [...]

Posted on March 13, 2012

The Year of the Dragon begins with Generosity from NACE NY

Nourishing is proud to announce a second year sponsorship from NACE NY (National Association of Catering Executives). The continued partnership was announced tonight at the NACE NY 3rd Annual Chinese New Year located at the J&B Restaurant in China town. The evening featured a tasting menu of ten courses and wine parings from Dragon Hallow [...]

Posted on February 23, 2012

Nourishing Welcomes new Special Projects Coordinator

Just joining Nourishing, two new Special Projects Coordinators, Loren Berman and Monica Johnson will be helping to feed, educate and advocate for thousands this year. Loren Berman comes to us from The Jewish Theological Seminary at Columbia University where he brings his inventive and passionate skills focusing on Social Entrepreneurship and Microfinance. Monica is an [...]

Posted on February 16, 2012

Harlem Edge & Nourishing NYC/USA

Nourishing is excited to have presented to the panel of jurors at the Center for Architecture (AIANY) for the Harlem Edge, Cultivating Connections project. All the submissions look great! How will they decide? Competition Brief The Harlem Edge/Cultivating Connections competition will explore the redevelopment of the decommissioned Department of Sanitation marine transfer station located in the Hudson River at 135th Street. [...]

Posted on February 11, 2012

Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service with Nourishing, NYCCAH, and JP Morgan / Chase Bank Goodworks

New York, NY – January 16, 2012- Nourishing (Nourishing USA and Nourishing NYC) held it’s third annual MLK Day of Service with the New York City Coalition Against Hunger (NYCCAH) and the JP Morgan-Chase Bank Goodworks at the Greenpoint Reformed Church. Over 50 volunteers helped Nourishing to create Nourishing USA Anti-hunger Advocacy Kits. Volunteers helped to paint, [...]

Posted on January 16, 2012

L’Oréal Paris Honors Nourishing NYC’s Gina Keatley in the Sixth Annual Women of Worth Awards

Vote for Gina as the National Honoree: November 7 – November 23 on womenofworth.com New York, NY (November 7, 2011) – New York resident Gina Keatley has been honored as a Woman of Worth by L’Oréal Paris for her work with Nourishing NYC/USA, a community food program that strives to provide “nutrition for all” in [...]

Posted on November 7, 2011

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