Dec. 7: NYC Council Speaker Pitches "FoodWorks New York"

New York Times: Council Speaker to Unveil Policy on Food for the City




-- "All of this work will culminate in the spring [?*] when we'll present our final FoodWorks blueprint. That blueprint will help us achieve five clear and critical goals:

[1] Improve our city's food infrastructure...
[2] Create new and better jobs in the food industry...
[3] Keep more of our local food dollars in the local economy...
[4] Reduce diet-related diseases...
[5] Reduce environmental damage of production, transport, and consumption of food..."

New York City Council: Speaker Quinn Announces “FoodWorks New York”
NY1: Quinn Program Aims To Streamline Food Production (with video)
WNYC 93.9 FM: Quinn Outlines Plan for NYC Food
WABC-TV 7: Council speaker introduces Foodworks initiative (with video)
Crain's New York Business: City to study ways to improve food system
Gothamist: Quinn Has Big Plans for NYC Food





Rewind:
...2009/11/fork-this-melissa-and-george-motz-win.html
...2009/11/roopa-kalyanaraman-wins-brooklyn.html
...2009/10/bake-sales-banned-why.html
...2009/09/north.html

Fast-forward:
+ Food Matters to Mark Bittman (WNYC: Jan. 19, 2010)
+ School Lunches (WNYC: Jan. 19, 2010)
+ Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Brooklyn community organizer and food justice advocate Mark Winston Griffith discuss the crisis of “food deserts”and what’s being done to improve the way New Yorkers eat... (WNYC: Mar. 10, 2010)

*August 3, 2010: Quinn recently traveled upstate to Red Hook, New York on her mission to revolutionize the way New Yorkers get their food. Nestor Tello's small farm there serves as an example of the type of business Quinn would like to see serve more people in the city.

"Part of the answer of getting more good food out to New York City is finding ways to support these farmers, but also to engage these farmers in the food that New York City is a part of," Quinn said.

As part of Quinn's so-called Foodworks Initiative, the Council Speaker plans to unveil legislation that would require city agencies to track how much locally-grown food they buy for prisons, senior centers and schools, to name a few.