Navigating Food Choices In Today's Economy: A Dialogue With Marion Nestle, Narsai David, And The Berkeley Student Food Collective, October 22, 2010, 7pm

Online, October 13, 2010 (Newswire.com) - The Berkeley Student Cooperative (BSC) and the BSC Alumni Association are hosting an event that exemplifies the BSC's history of graduating prominent "foodies" on October 22, 2010, 7pm, at the Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA.

The event will feature BSC alumna Marion Nestle, nutrition professor at New York University and acclaimed author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health. Marion will be joined by BSC alumnus Narsai David, the popular KCBS wine and food editor. The Berkeley Student Food Collective, whose mission is to provide healthy, sustainable and ethically produced food at affordable prices to the U.C. Berkeley community, will be represented by co-founder and BSC alumnus Yoni Landau.

Food Choices is proudly sponsored by the BSC's largest food vendor, Veritable Vegetable. Veritable Vegetable, the nation's first organic produce company, provides full service distribution of the highest quality organic fresh fruits and vegetables to retailers, restaurants, schools, corporate campuses and wholesalers in California and parts of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada.

The Berkeley Student Cooperative is a non-profit that has provided affordable housing in a cooperative living environment since 1933. Over 1200 students call the BSC home.

Tickets are available at www.bscaa.org/foodchoices; limited tickets available at the door. $20 general admission / $10 BSC alumni association members / $5 students with ID

MEDIA CONTACT:
Madeleine Loh
Phone: (510) 848 -1936
Fax: (510) 848-2124
Email: [email protected]

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