UK Dining Hosts Local Foods Week
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 22, 2015) — In an effort to promote Kentucky Proud products and local foods, UK Dining is hosting Local Foods Week on the University of Kentucky campus Monday, Sept. 21 through Friday, Sept. 25.
The schedule is as follows:
Custom Food Solutions
Location: The 90
Date & Time: Monday, Sept. 21, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
University of Kentucky Horticulture Research Farm
Location: The 90
Date & Time: Tuesday, Sept. 22, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Boone Creek Creamery
Location: The 90
Date & Time: Wednesday, Sept. 23, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Weisenberger Mills
Location: The 90
Date & Time: Friday, Sept. 25, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Students will have a chance to meet the local vendor and sample various products such as salsa, kale salad, cheese, and muffins. Inside the Fresh Food Company, students may try menu items that include a local ingredient from the participating vendors.
Custom Food Solutions provides pizza and pasta sauces, and soups that are available daily. UK Horticulture Farm supplies kale, romaine, and leaf lettuce. The cheese used for omelets, pizza and the salad bar comes from Boone Creek and UK Dining purchases corn meal, grits, and honey from Weisenberger Mills.
Everyone is invited to sample local vendors and vote for your favorites to return for encore visits next semester. The most popular items may be found on future UK Dining menus.
MEDIA CONTACT: Blair Hoover, (859) 257-6398; blair.hoover@uky.edu