Ashley Shapiro says that one of the things that keeps her excited about her work after over a decade is knowing that the proceeds of both the New York City Food and Wine Festival and the South Beach Wine and Food Festival benefit not for profit organizations. The New York City Festival benefits the Food Bank for New York City and No Kid Hungry (which you may know of if you're a fan of Rachael Ray- she's a big booster for the organization). We wanted to highlight the issue of hunger, especially for kids, with two different talks.
http://www.ted.com Co-creator of the philanthropic FEED bags, Ellen Gustafson says hunger and obesity are two sides of the same coin. At TEDxEast, she launches The 30 Project -- a way to change how we farm and eat in the next 30 years, and solve the global food inequalities behind both epidemics.
http://www.ted.com Josette Sheeran, the head of the UN's World Food Program, talks about why, in a world with enough food for everyone, people still go hungry, still die of starvation, still use food as a weapon of war. Her vision: "Food is one issue that cannot be solved person by person.
