May 3rd Panel On Culinary Training Programs Hosted by Eating Liberally

Save The Date! Eating Liberally and the Food Systems Network NYC
invite you to join us on May 3rd at 6:30 pm for a screening of Pressure
Cooker, an uplifting documentary about a hilariously tough (but
loving) high school teacher in Philly named Wilma Stephenson who puts
her underprivileged urban students through a kind of culinary boot camp
to help them win scholarships to the country's best culinary schools
(think Rocky meets To Sir, With Love, with a dash of
Gordon Ramsey).

Rachael Ray is so impressed by Wilma's
extraordinary success at goading her students into achieving their full
potential that she surprised the feared-but-adored teacher last month by
gifting her with a state-of-the-art makeover of her kitchen and
classroom--to be unveiled, coincidentally, on Rachael's May 3rd show.

The
screening will be followed by a discussion with Pressure Cooker director Jennifer Grausman and
Lynn Fredericks, the Family Cook Productions founder whose Teen Iron Chef
program is empowering youths all over the country by teaching them how
to prepare fresh, wholesome foods and work as a team.

Grausman and
Fredericks will be joined by several youths whose lives have been
transformed by such cooking programs, including Fatoumata Dembele, one
of the stars of Pressure Cooker, and Dexter Ambrose, a student
at Brooklyn Automotive High who has embraced heathy cooking and food
gardening with the encouragement of teacher Jenny Kessler, whose course
entitled "Food, Land, and You" was recently written up by the New York Times.

Light
refreshments will be served.

Where: The Tank, 354 W. 45th Street
between 8th and 9th Aves.

When: 6:30 doors open, 6:45 screening,
8:15 panel

Tickets can be purchased here.

Proceeds from the event will benefit the Food Systems Network NYC.  To learn more or become a member, visit www.foodsystemsnyc.org.  Event hosted by Eating Liberally.