Food Day 2015: Eco-Chef & Cookbook Author Cooking Demo | Ferry Plaza Farmers Market

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Free Seasonal Cooking Demo & Tasting | Ferry Plaza Farmers Market

This waterfront market, run by the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA), has over 100 food, fruit, and vegetable vendors on Saturdays and the entire Bay as its beautiful backdrop.

The Ferry Plaza Farmers Market operates year-round from 8 am to 2 pm.

On most Saturdays, free cooking demos take place in the CUESA Classroom (under the white tents in front of the Ferry Building) and are free to the public, with recipes and samples for all.

– Updated 5/28/19 – Event info last checked via website

Saturday, October 24, 2015
Free Seasonal Cooking Demo & Tasting | Ferry Plaza Farmers Market

Stop by the CUESA Classroom for a cooking demo featuring the seasonal bounty of the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market and celebrating Food Day.

Food Day 2015 will focus on how greener diets address health and environmental issues. Laura will examine the connections between food and environment and offer ways to reduce your food-print through food choices. The audience will “taste their way through the book,”  sharing a three-course mini-menu and the stories behind the food.

Laura Stec is a chef, educator and author, specializing in events and products for healthy people and the planet. Her work has been featured at NPR, Martha Stewart, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, and numerous local and national media sites. She is a private and corporate chef with Laura Stec – Innovative Cuisine and Culinary Health Educator for Kaiser Permanente and Bay-Area corporate wellness programs.

The Food Party! is her featured blog for San Francisco-based Embarcadero Media. Past positions include chef instructor for Lifelong Inc. and consulting chef for the International Culinary School. As Corporate R & D Chef for Pescadero Foods Inc., Laura worked on-farm with pastured-raised chickens, and on a local-food line for the National School Lunch Program. Laura’s extensive nonprofit education experience began in 1988 when she founded EcoEaters, one of the first food and environment education programs in the U.S, followed by 14 years work with Palo Alto, CA-based Bay Area Action and Acterra. Her book, Cool Cuisine – Taking the Bite Out of Global Warming, is co-authored with atmospheric scientist Dr. Eugene Cordero; the team lectures extensively, nationally and internationally. Locally, she teaches Bay Area corporations how to cook with onsite Food Parties, Discovery Bars, farmers markets, and hands-on cook classes with Bay Area wine pairings. Recently noted by Time Magazine as a “leader who pursued her passion to become a community resource and expert,” Laura is creating a new vegetable condiment line to inspire people to Eat More Vegetables! In her spare time, she volunteers with local schools and Michelle Obama’s Chefs Move to School program, hikes, and boogie boards the Pacific coast.

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