Chef Roy Choi Teams Up With LG Electronics to Support Los Angeles Non-Profit ...
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Is providing three full suites of kitchen appliances to RootDown LA, a Project of Community Partners, for its landmark healthy food programming. This program trains high school students to build demand for, and increase supplies of fresh produce in their communities.
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LA-based Chef Choi, credited with jumpstarting the food-truck craze, has been a long-time supporter of RootDown LA, assisting in their programming that gets kids to cook and eat more veggies. Choi understands the importance of programs like RootDown LA that offer experiential, hands-on learning that allows young people to explore their creativity and figure out ways in which they can help create healthy food enterprises.
"Community is what you make of it, and RootDown LA is supporting the South LA area by helping to reinforce an interest in the strong food culture that already exists in LA and encourage healthy cooking on a daily basis," said Chef Choi. "Today's youth needs resources and programs that let them explore their creativity and express their emotions. LG's donation provides us with tools that will enhance our efforts to share our culinary skills with students for the benefit of our entire community."
Source: PR Newswire (press release)
Cozy kitchen at their command
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From the day they bought their modest home in southwest Eugene four years ago, Erin Chaparro and Jeremy Hall wanted to remodel the kitchen “cave.”
But rather than busting out walls in the confined, dim kitchen right away, the couple dug deep into homework.
“We decided to live in the house for a while to see what the space needs really were,” says Chaparro, who entertains topics relating to home design, decorating and cooking on her blog, “Eugene Modern Monkey.”
Magazines like dwell, subtitled “At Home in the Modern World,” helped Chaparro, 35, and Hall, 37, envision a kitchen far better suited for time together and with friends.
“We like entertaining; we like having friends over. And Jeremy loves to cook,” Chaparro says. “We wanted a space that felt good to do all of those things in.”
But the remodel also had to be “aesthetically artistic,” Chaparro says.
Source: The Register-Guard