May 18, 2008

Mark Your Calendars for June 1, when Voice at Hotel Icon and Slow Food Houston are giving a party benefitting Recipe for Success Foundation

You can follow this link to the evite and make your reservation now,or RSVP to Cissy Davis at csgall@swbell.net

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The Fifth Grade RFS Dinner Club at Mac Gregor Elementary School Have Planned a Special Year-End Garden Party

The Spring Fling will celebrate a year of cooking from the bounty of Mac Gregor's Recipe Garden. Under the tutelage of RFS Team Leader, Carlos Meltzer, the Dinner Club has organized every grade group participating in RFS Kids Cooking Afterschool. Each will be preparing a different specialty dish for guests who will include their parents, as well as Recipe for Success sponsors and board members. But their most treasured guests will be the PriceWaterhouseCoopers employees who volunteered their time over two hot summer days last year to build their Recipe Garden. If you would like to come see what we have been up to at Mac Gregor, please RSVP to Leah Whitley leah@recipe4success.org

Generous donations for the Spring Fling picnic include:
organic, all beef hot dogs by Jolie Vue Farms and Australian Spring Water by Good Vibes for You.

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Mac Gregor Dinner Club Kids appear with Gracie on Great Day Houston

Watch 5th graders Jacobi Glover, Teiondreia Kelley & Amanda Lan talk to Cristina about their upcoming Spring Fling Garden Party on May 22.

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April 19, 2008

It's Spring and the Recipe for Success Kids are Visiting Farms

Houston area farms have opened their arms and fields to hundreds of fourth grade students who participate in Recipe for Success Foundation programs. Even though the children have spent all year working in their own Recipe Gardens at school, most have never experienced anything like this.  Atkinson Farms and Froberg Farms have been particularly generous--allowing the children to pick their own strawberries to take home and to harvest and wash fresh carrots, before taking a big chomp out of them.There is no better way to exemplify the journey their food takes from the farm to their own tables than getting our children out into the fields in order to participate in the process themselves.




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Gracie is Honored by Dr. Oz at Benefit in New York City

Dr. Mehmet Oz, with whom many of you are familiar through his appearances on Oprah and Good Morning America, was so impressed with the work of Recipe for Success Foundation, that he singled Gracie out for a special award and recognition at his annual HealthCorps benefit in New York.

HealthCorps is a foundation that Dr. Oz and his wife Lisa created to educate youth about the workings of their bodies and empower them to make good decisions.  HealthCorps works with high school age students in New York, Florida and California and now Recipe for Success Foundation is helping to bring them into Houston schools, which will complement our own work with elementary school children.

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March 13, 2008

I love the slogan on the side of Central Market's reusable shopping bag . . .

"Chew With Your Mind Open" I couldn't have said it better myself. We are most thankful to Central Market for underwriting all of the wonderful gourmet ingredients that have powered our chef's creative menus for Small Bites this year. Make sure to thank them yourself next time you stop in at their 3815 Westheimer location to shop!

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February 25, 2008

We're Cooking Now!

Our Gala in Small Bites kicked off January 31 with a rousing success at Hotel Zaza.   Thank you to hostesses Jennifer LeGrand & Marcy  deLuna.

March's schedule is packed with Small Bites opportunities beginning with two events next week: on March 4,
Chef Michael Kramer (Voice at Hotel Icon) will make magic in Melanie Gray & Mark Wawro's beautiful River Oaks home
and on March 6 Chef Ryan Pera (The Grove) will create a magical evening at Carolyn & Jimmy Robertson's stunning museum area home.  There are still spots available! Sign-up now.

Later in March . . .  a Small Bites Spring Break Party on March 14, designer Naeem Khan will be cooking for us at Saks on March 26 and  Chef John Sheely  will collaborate with artist William Betts in his home on March 27.  Don't miss the fun.  Register now!

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