Organic Thanksgiving Meal Event: Make an Organic Dish for Mom on Mother's Day 2013
2013 Food Revolution series, Part One - Make Mom an Organic Thank-You Meal for Mother's Day
Water Garden Organic Farmers' Market and the Homemakers United Foundation jointly present
"A Thank-You Dish That Will Wow Mom"
Gourmet Mary Soh personally teaches Mediterranean cooking to encourage people to cook a meal for Mom on Mother's Day
On Mother's Day, besides the usual holiday marketing that has people taking Mom out to eat and giving gifts, what deeper and warmer sentiment can we express this year? It is often said that Mom's cooking touches the heart the most, because from preparing the ingredients to cooking with full care, the food always comes out full of thoughtful flavor. So if mothers could taste a dish cooked with the genuine, heartfelt effort of their children, Mother's Day would become an even deeper and more tender memory among family members.
The Water Garden Organic Farmers' Market and the Homemakers United Foundation, both starting from heartfelt intention, will jointly respond in May to a series of Food Revolution events launched by Jamie Oliver - host of the British cooking show "The Naked Chef" and the handsome celebrity chef - together with his foundation (Jamie Oliver Foundation).
For the first event on Mother's Day, they have specially invited the culinary master known as the "Queen of Banquets" and a regular at the Water Garden Organic Farmers' Market, Mary Soh, to come to the market on May 11 (Saturday), the day before Mother's Day, from 2:00-3:00 pm to personally teach classic Mediterranean dishes that anyone can easily master, including the most classic Ratatouille from the movie "Ratatouille," Salade Nicoise, and Provencal pesto soup, so that friends who come to the market can go home and easily prepare a meal that wows Mom! This Mother's Day, the organic crops that farmers have cultivated with care will become the most deeply heartfelt gift to give back to mothers.
Professor Kuo Hua-jen, supervising professor of the Water Garden Organic Farmers' Market, said: The Water Garden Organic Farmers' Market is the first market where organic farmers stand on their own feet, and is a market that has gradually grown with the support of people in the Taipei area who want healthy, delicious, environmentally friendly agricultural products that embody fairness and justice; it can be called a gathering of the broad CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) movement.
Joining with the Homemakers United Foundation, which cares about food safety and food and agriculture education, to respond to the global "Food Revolution Day" launched by British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is an action of dietary awakening of great significance. Through this, on Mother's Day we offer the highest respect to mothers everywhere through the act of organic gratitude.
In addition, as long as people come to the market and state that they are shopping for ingredients to cook for their mother and spend more than 500 yuan, the farmers will directly give back a variety of eco-friendly cleaning products. If you are a mother and come to the market, as long as you participate in the member points program and spend more than 500 yuan, the farmers will likewise give back a variety of eco-friendly cleaning products, while supplies last. The Water Garden Organic Farmers' Market is held every Saturday from 1:00-6:00 pm at the Water Mist Garden Plaza in the Gongguan Water Park.
Media contact: Water Garden Organic Farmers' Market volunteers Cheng Wan-ching 0961-080-890 / Lin Po-hu 0938-322-844
Water Garden Organic Farmers' Market http://www.facebook.com/organicfarmersmarket
About the Homemakers United Foundation
In early 1987, a group of homemakers, feeling the rapid changes in society, found that as members of society they could not sit idly by while surrounded by all kinds of environmental ills and educational deficiencies. So they took as their motto "dare to speak up, quick to act, glad to take responsibility," resolved to start with themselves, and committed to improving the environment and raising the quality of life; thus the "Homemakers United Foundation" was born.
In 2013, the Homemakers United Foundation, with old roots and new branches in full bloom, proposed "Green Food Education," continuing to care about and advocate on topics such as food safety, consumer awareness, and parent-child education, including opposing high-risk imported American beef, calling for rational fertilization to reduce nitrate content in vegetables, promoting and explaining "anti-GMO crops," and food education starting from the home and the classroom. It hopes to advance an integrated educational concept covering five major dimensions: food, agriculture, ecology, nutrition, and culture.
About Mary Soh
Mary Soh - fashion gourmet / lifestyle connoisseur / social etiquette expert / food and wine expert / and also a master party host.
- 2013 Food Revolution series, Part One - Make an organic thank-you meal for Mom
She was educated in Hong Kong, China and the UK, focusing on product marketing, and once worked as a brand manager at General Electric in the United States, McDonald's Hamburgers, and Mead Johnson Nutrition. But because of her interest in fine wine, she later moved to Remy Martin, where she was responsible for wine importing, promotion, and sales in Taiwan, China, and then became Remy Martin's brand ambassador in Taiwan, China. Because she wanted to promote fine wine, she also promoted fine food, wine's best partner. For this reason, she has spoken at hundreds of fine wine and food dinners. Mary does not regard fine food and wine as work, but is a connoisseur who fully lives out refined dining, fine wine, and an elegant attitude toward life.
In both 2009 and 2010, she was invited by Cheng Kung University to serve as a lecturer for EMBA courses. Mary Soh has more than 14 years of experience in wine importing, promotion, and education. Nowadays she only does what she loves, such as sharing her experience with viewers on television every week, writing columns on food and wine, teaching table etiquette, and engaging in wine education. Recently Mary Soh has published the following books:
Let’s Party, Living a Romantic Life with Me, Royal Thai Cuisine, Aphrodisiac, Learning to Make European Western Food at Home, Home Cooking to Pamper Your Husband, A Different Kind of Touch - Making Western Food by Hand (originally titled Let’s Party), Love Mediterranean Food, My Private Pastry Class, The First Book for Understanding Wine.
Past positions:
– 2007 Taiwan pastry judge
– 2008 Taiwan Food Exhibition judge
– 2008 Far Eastern Culinary Master Competition judge
– 2008 Sun Moon Lake Souvenir - Happiness Good Taste judge
– 2009 Taiwan Food Exhibition judge
– 2011 Taipei Food Exhibition emcee
– 2012 King of Chefs Competition emcee (Huaxi Village, China)
About FOOD REVOLUTION "Food Revolution"
"Food Revolution" was launched by Jamie Oliver - host of the British cooking show "The Naked Chef" and the handsome celebrity chef - together with his foundation (Jamie Oliver Foundation). It is an event designed for people who love food. During this period everyone gathers to share information, skills, and resources, as well as to pass on knowledge and raise everyone's awareness of global food issues. When caring people around the world connect, they can create change.
"Food Revolution" Day will be held around the world in different forms, mainly through schools, restaurants, local business activities, dinners, and farmer-initiated activities to connect people from all walks of life. We hope to inspire everyone to change their everyday eating habits and to spread the message that everyone can have better food and better food education. "Food Revolution" Day will be held on May 17, 2013. This year we hope to extend the revolution to the entire month of May, focusing on food waste, food education, responding to the "Taiwan, China GMO-Free Farming Area Movement," and urban farming, connecting friends from all walks of life to spread the ideas of "Food Revolution" together!
About the Water Garden Organic Farmers' Market
This is the story of a group of farmers who are changing Taiwan, China through nature-friendly farming that is kind to the earth. And the closing of the NTU Organic Farmers' Market is the beginning of this story. When the only organic farmers' market in Taipei closed, it meant that a community linking land, ecology, farmers, and the dining table would ferment a deeper force; the farmers stood up on their own strength and, in the Water Garden in the Gongguan business district near NTU, rebuilt a fresh and distinctive new organic cultural market.
About the Water Garden Lifestyle Creative Market
Life! How can it be simple and natural yet full of beautiful surprises? "Organic" should not be limited to agricultural method certification, but should be a comprehensive aesthetic attitude toward life! Exploring organic life brings us back to the four great principles of "health, ecology, fairness, and care"! Besides using processed foods made as far as possible from organic or natural farming ingredients, we hope that through every aspect of food, clothing, housing, transportation, education, and recreation, as long as there is the will, a more ideal way of life can be realized. And in the practice of the market, relationships between people have already risen from transactions to friendships! Trust, care, support, and sharing are the world of great harmony we yearn for! Following the Water Garden Organic Farmers' Market, the Taipei Cultural Exploration Association further established at the Taipei Water Park a "Water Garden Lifestyle Creative Market" that realizes the four great principles of organic life.