The community is invited to meet celebrity Chef Kenny at the Farmers Market in downtown Stevens Point Saturday morning.
As part of a visit to the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Chef Kenny Minor will be a special "Chef on the Square" from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday. Assisted by several UW-Stevens Point dietetics students, he will demonstrate how to make tasty, healthy smoothies from ingredients found at the Farmers Market.
Recipe cards will be available to all who attend the demonstration.
"Chef on the Square" is hosted by Central Rivers Farmshed and is part of the Fruit and Vegetable Prescription program. The program helps community members redeem prescriptions from their health care provider for free fruits and vegetables at the local farmers market.
Chef Kenny will be at UW-Stevens Point this week, sharing expertise with students, staff and alumni about creating healthier lifestyles. Minor has advocated for healthy eating after losing more than 100 pounds and keeping it off. He will offer advice for creating healthy, yet flavorful foods and sensible, easy to accomplish exercise.
He will share his strategies for success in organization partnerships with health promotion/wellness students and give dietetics students and future teachers tips for motivating youth and community groups.
"As a chef, he brings a different perspective on how to influence and motivate people. We're excited to learn how he has put his vision and passion into advocating for healthy eating," said Deborah Tang, food and nutrition lecturer in the School of Health Promotion and Human Development at UW-Stevens Point.
Minor appeared on the Food Network's hit show "Chopped," was named one of Ebony Magazine's top chefs for 2014, was a regular guest on a Washington, D.C., TV news program and has helped raise more than $2 million for healthy lifestyle programming for at-risk youth in New York City. In 2010 he launched "Eat for Life," a community outreach program focused on creating healthier lifestyles for youth and adults. A private chef with a successful catering business, he conducts nutrition and cooking workshops.
Chef Kenny completed his bachelor's degree in culinary arts from The Art Institutes in New York. His food styling, which has been featured in Hampton's Magazine, is best described as healthy southern food from the soul. His new cookbook, "From My Plate To Yours," will be released this fall.
His friend UW-Stevens Point Admissions counselor Scott West invited Minor to campus to highlight diversity and healthy lifestyles, and he will spend time with students of color, including Noel Compass Scholars.
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