From Executive Producer Anthony Bourdain, WASTED! aims to change the way people buy, cook, recycle, and eat food. Through the eyes of chef-heroes like Bourdain, Dan Barber, Mario Batali, Massimo Bottura, and Danny Bowien, audiences will see how the world's most influential chefs make the most of every kind of food, transforming what most people consider scraps into incredible dishes that create a more secure food system.
Join us as we discuss the issue of food waste, how it's directly contributing to climate change and how we all can make small changes, all of them delicious, to solve one of the greatest problems of the 21st Century.
Q & A PANEL FOLLOWING THE FILM WITH:
Randi Shubin Dresner, President & CEO of Island Harvest
NYS Senator Todd Kaminsky
NYS Assemblyman Steve Englebright
Kendrick Repko, MS, RD, Brand Lead, Sustainable Retailing, Stop & Shop
PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH:
Island Harvest
Sid Jacobson JCC
Long Island Community Foundation
Nonprofit Data Solutions
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ABOUT HUNGER AND FOOD INSECURITY ON LONG ISLAND
Food insecurity is a state in which people do not get enough food on a consistent basis to provide the nutrients for active and healthy lives. It can result from the recurrent lack of access to food. More than 300,000 Long Islanders face the risk of hunger every day, according to Island Harvest Food Bank and Feeding America\u174 ?, a national hunger-relief organization. People facing hunger include adults (often working two jobs), children, senior citizens, and veterans. Unable to make ends meet, they (and their children) are often forced to go without food. Approximately 70,000 individuals seek food assistance in Nassau and Suffolk counties each week through soup kitchens, food pantries and other feeding programs served by Island Harvest Food Bank.
ABOUT ISLAND HARVEST FOOD BANK
Island Harvest Food Bank is a leading hunger-relief organization that provides food and other resources to people in need. Always treating those it helps with dignity and respect, its goal is to end hunger and reduce food waste on Long Island through efficient food collection and distribution; enhanced hunger-awareness and nutrition-education programs; job training; and direct services targeted at children, senior citizens, veterans, and others at risk of food insecurity. As a result of Island Harvest Food Bank's dynamic business model, more than 94 percent of expended resources go directly to programs and services that support more than 300,000 Long Islanders facing hunger. Island Harvest Food Bank is a lead agency in the region's emergency response preparedness for food and product distribution and is a member of Feeding America, the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief organization. For five consecutive years, Island Harvest Food Bank has earned a four-star rating from Charity Navigator, a leading independent charity watchdog organization. Island Harvest Food Bank is among just 9% of the organizations rated by Charity Navigator to merit the four-star designation. More information about Island Harvest Food Bank is at www.islandharvest.org.
ABOUT SID JACOBSON JCC
Sid Jacobson JCC serves the needs of the food insecure in Nassau County and is a dedicated vocational training facility for young adults with special needs. As a collection site and distribution center of non-perishable shelf-stable food, personal care, and household items, Sid Jacobson JCC responds to community needs by providing the items most needed by small local food pantries. Please bring your non-perishable food donations to the event. For a list of needed items, please visit www.sjjcc.org/foodwishlist