Food Miles and How They Impact Us

 This week at Worcester State University we will celebrate Food Day and Sustainability. Have you ever wondered where your food comes from and how fresh it is? I bet that you never would have guessed the big impact of food traveling across country or what is called "food miles". Here is a great article from the Natural Resources Defense Council regarding food miles, the overall impact of this travel on the food and on our health.
Eat Local!

Great week ahead!!

This week we have some exciting events for our students. 

Tuesday, October 21 at 4pm we will be holding our Sundae for Survey event at Sheehan Hall POD. This event is to help us serve you better better getting your feedback on your dining experiences at WSU. Be sure to stop by!

Wednesday October 22 we will be having a Sustainability Table set up all day for our students as well as a farmer's market which will be located on the patio outside of the Student Center and will run from 10:30-2:00

Thursday, October 23 we will be celebrating Food Day from 11:00am-2:00pm and we will have a Local/Organic foods cookout and we will have a bike that does peddle powered blenders to make smoothies. Come try your hand, or shall we say "foot", at blending your own smoothie!

Portland Food Carts

A little background on the Portland food cart industry:

According to multiple sites, there are over 500 food carts up and running in Portland at any given time!

Back in the 1970s, faced with a dying downtown, Portland declared that all center-city construction had to include ground-floor retail. It was a good idea, and one that injected new energy into our streets. But as the recession has filled many a city code–commanded storefront window with "FOR LEASE" signs, it’s the once-barren—and oft-ridiculed—surface parking lots that have begun pulsing with urban life in the form of food carts.

"The carts’ success downtown has people thinking of these sorts of structures as an interim form of development that can create a destination," says Marcy McInelly, an associate principal at Sera Architects. "Traditional restaurants do that, but it takes a long time. Carts can do it very quickly."  (Portland Monthly Magazine 2010)

CHECK OUT OUR TAKE ON PORTLAND FOODS at Taste of Portlandia ON OCTOBER 15th at EAT.LEARN.LIVE, located in Sheehan POD

Taste of Portlandia-October 15th

Join us for the upcoming Taste of Portlandia. There will be some delicious foods and you will not want to miss it.
Pick your favorite places to go or sample all that we have to offer!!

Eat.Learn.Live
Fried Chicken and Waffles

The Kitchen
featuring Alder street carts
Garlic & Ginger Chicken and Rice
French toast, egg, cheddar and bacon sandwich

My Pantry
Porchetta sandwich with arugula and green apple