Our faculty dinner!

Yesterday, Wednesday April 17th, we hosted a community dinner for faculty and students alike! We hoped to engage key members of the faculty and our peers in a conversation about the role of food— how health, the environment, ethics, and culture intersect on our plates. Professors Heldman, Dirks, Morrissey, and Sabo joined us and we all discussed our personal philosophies of food. Vegheads hopes to strengthen the community around food awareness here at Occidental and bring sustainability, rights, and public health into the focus of the Oxy community. Our (almost entirely local, seaonal, and organic) menu included: spinach salad with pecans, strawberries, and blackberry fig vinaigrette; bruschetta with sauteed onions and mushrooms; stir-fried zucchini with fenugreek seeds; asparagus and cannellini bean risotto; and an orange, grapefruit, mango, and pineapple smoothie to finish. Funding for the dinner was provided the ASOC. Many thanks to the students and professors who joined us for this event!