REDMOND, Wash. – Chef Lisa Dupar has joined forces with Solid Ground and Share Our Strength’s^® Operation Frontline to teach teens how to prepare and cook healthy meals. The Power of Eating Right program will be taught at Seattle’s Odessa Brown Clinic. The classes, which are filled with clients from the clinic, will run on Wednesday afternoons from 2:30pm-4:30pm from July 16-August 20. Chef Dupar will be joined in each class by a volunteer nutritionist. Operation Frontline coordinates and trains the volunteer chefs and nutritionists to teach the six-week classes on nutrition, healthy cooking and food budgeting for individuals at risk of hunger and malnutrition. A longtime advocate teaching young people the benefits of healthy eating, this is Chef Dupar’s fifth time teaching classes on behalf of Operation Frontline.

 

WHO:              Lisa Dupar, Solid Ground, and Operation Frontline

 

WHAT:            Lisa Dupar will teach teens how to prepare and cook healthy meals. The recipes and menu are researched and provided by Operation Frontline. The Power of Eating Right program is offered to clients at the Odessa Brown Clinic. The classes are filled and are a free service with no enrollment fee.

 

WHERE:          
Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic

2101 E. Yesler Way

Seattle, WA 98122

 

WHEN:            Wednesdays from July 16, 2008-August 20, 2008

Located in Redmond, Wash., Dupar & Co. is comprised of Lisa Dupar Catering and Pomegranate Bistro. Lisa Dupar Catering, a full-service catering and event-planning business, was founded in 1984 and is the leading catering company in the Pacific Northwest. Facilities include a 14,000-square-foot commercial kitchen, bakery and the 2,500-square foot Pomegranate Bistro, which overlooks the catering kitchen. Pomegranate Bistro’s menu features a contemporary blend of Pacific Northwest cuisine and classic comfort food inspired by Lisa Dupar’s southern upbringing and classical French training. Seasonal menus rotate regularly, as does the hip cocktail menu and award-winning wine list featuring more than 125 hand-selected wines. For more information about Lisa Dupar Catering or Pomegranate Bistro please visit www.duparandcompany.com.

Solid Ground is dedicated to achieving a just and caring community, free from poverty, prejudice and neglect. Solid Ground was founded in 1974 by community leaders and concerned citizens of one of Seattle's then most economically devastated neighborhoods, Fremont. Originally called the Fremont Public Association, their services — emergency food bank, clothing bank, and employment program — reflected the desperate needs and the determined response of a mobilized and committed neighborhood.

 

Share Our Strength^® is a national organization that works hard to make sure no kid in America grows up hungry. They weave together a net of community groups, activists and food programs to catch children at risk of hunger and surround them with nutritious food where they live, learn and play. They work with the culinary industry to create engaging, pioneering programs like Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation^®, Share Our Strength’s Great American Bake Sale^®, Share Our Strength’s A Tasteful Pursuit^®, Share Our Strength’s Great American Dine Out™, and Share Our Strength’s Operation Frontline^®

 

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