Like many other chronic conditions, heart disease can be prevented or managed through diet and lifestyle adjustments. In honor of Healthy Heart Month at the Center for Health & Wellbeing, Chef and Culinary Nutrition Educator Jenny Breen will demonstrate three recipes full of flavor and fun while also sharing how they can be heart healthy. Chef Breen will also discuss simple techniques and interesting combinations to get the most out of your seasonal ingredients. This cooking demonstration will be an opportunity for you to explore new and creative approaches to integrating whole foods into your life.

By participating in this program, you can expect to learn:

• new, nutritious recipes;
• how food contributes to your heart health and wellbeing;
• and how healthy food and cooking can be easy, accessible, fun and delicious!

This program will cover the following recipes:

• Thai noodle bowls with peanut (or sesame) sauce
• Stuffed cabbage rolls with lemony dill sauce
• Tempeh ragout over creamy polenta

Special Instructions: Prior to this interactive session, a list of ingredients and supplies will be provided to registrants who wish to cook along.

This program is presented by Jenny Breen and is hosted by the Winter Park Health Foundation.

How to join the Zoom Program:

Upon registration for this program, you will receive two emails:

One email from Eventbrite: you can either disregard this email or save it for your records. No action needed with this message.

One email from the Center for Health & Wellbeing: this email will contain your link to join the Zoom meeting. Simply select the link and the Zoom Meeting will launch. Please allow yourself five – 10 minutes before program start to launch Zoom and confirm your technology is properly working.

For troubleshooting and other Zoom-related questions, please email us at [email protected]

By participating in this program, you agree to the CHWB’s Gracious Space policy. Unless otherwise noted, all CHWB Digital Education programs hosted via Zoom are recorded and made available for on-demand viewing on WellbeingNetwork.org. If you prefer to be left out of the program’s recording, please leave your camera and microphone off for the duration of the program.

About Your Program Presenter

Jenny Breen has been a professional chef and advocate for sustainable food systems and food justice, and has worked directly with farmers and producers in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota since the mid-1980’s. She was co-owner of Good Life Cafe and Catering, a sustainable food business from 1996 to 2013. She is a 2009 Archibald Bush Foundation Leadership Fellow and completed her Master of Public Health degree in Nutrition at the University of Minnesota in 2011 while working to build strong networks within health and food systems for greater access to food, support for sustainable farming, and understanding of cooking as a health strategy. Her first cookbook, “Cooking up the Good Life”, emphasizes local, seasonal whole foods cooking for families and was released in April of 2011 from the University of Minnesota Press.

Chef Breen currently teaches three courses at the University of Minnesota, including an online undergraduate course called “Food Choices: Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves” and a graduate level cooking course for health professional students called “Food Matters: Cook Like Your Life Depends on It,” both through the Bakken Center. She also teaches an undergraduate nutrition cooking class, “A Food Systems Approach to Cooking” through the Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Institute in College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS). She contracts as a Public Health culinary nutrition educator with local health departments, school districts and nonprofit food and farming organizations.