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Forty New Rochelle High School students were treated to healthy dishes including beet bruschetta with hummus and sweet potato and parsnip soup served by their schoolmates recently.

The student cooks in the Science of Food class whipped up dishes from their own recipes with farm-to-table, sustainable ingredients as the culmination of a semester-long "Food Ed" program with the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture.

They studied personal and cultural connections to food as well as topics of sustainability. The lessons focused on many facets of agriculture, even caring for the soil itself.

"They studied how to maintain healthy soil, how to restore depleted soil and how the foods that you choose to grow have an impact on that living skin of the earth," teacher Julia Chillemi Kouyoumdjian said.

For the lunch event, Chillemi Kouyoumdjian's 30 students prepared, cooked and served the meal to two other classes in Room 207. The focus was "mindful eating," which "increases your awareness of the positive and nurturing opportunities that are available through food selection and preparation," their menu explains. It continues, "Eating mindfully is a practice that uses all your senses in choosing to eat food that is both satisfying to you and nourishing to your body."

They chose ingredients from the Stone Barns farm; others were sustainably sourced. In addition to the bruschetta and the sweet potato soup, there was kale risotto, "classic farm soup" and a seasonal salad. With each course came a story about how people can share their cultures by sharing foods, how food can be a form of medicine and how healthy soil leads to more nutritious ingredients.

Students who took the class said they planned to eat healthier and to spread the word about the connection between how we grow food and the world around us.

"I commit to eating healthy foods and staying away from bad foods that may be detrimental to my health," Gillian Okaiteye wrote in an action plan questionnaire.

Several said they would start their own gardens or join a community garden. Nick Calderone said he would like to help his mother cook and perhaps even make the family dinner on his own. Colin Logan, like many others, said he would let others know what he had learned.

"I will spread awareness about issues with the food system, such as unfair distribution and non-ethical production practices," Logan said.

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Governor of New York

Andrew Cuomo

New York State Capitol Building

Albany, NY 12224

Phone: 518-474-8390

Email Address: gov.cuomo@chamber.state.ny.us

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District Office:

222 Grace Church Street, Suite 300

Port Chester, NY 10573

Phone: (914) 934-5250 Fax: (914) 934-5256

NY State Assembly District 88

Amy Paulin

District Office:

700 White Plains Road, Suite 252

Scarsdale, NY 10583

Phone: (914) 723-1115

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Speaker of the Assembly

Carl E. Heastie

Albany office:

LOB 932

Albany, NY 12248

Phone: (518) 455‐3791 Fax: (518) 455-4812

District office:

1446 East Gun Hill Road

Bronx, NY 10469

Phone: (718) 654‐6539 Fax: (718) 654-5836

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NYS Senate Standing Committee on Education

Carl L. Marcellino, Chairman

Albany office:

188 State Street

Room 811, Legislative Office Building

Albany, NY 12247

Phone: (518) 455‐2390

Fax: (518) 426-6975

District office:

250 Townsend Square

Oyster Bay, NY 11771

Phone: (516) 922‐1811

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Albany Office:

Room 330, State Capitol Building

Albany, NY 12247

Phone: (518) 455-2071

Fax: (518) 426-6904

District Office:

260 Middle County Road, Suite 102

Smithtown, NY 11787

Phone: (631) 361-2154

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Catherine Nolan, Chair

Albany Office:

LOB 836

Albany, NY 11248

Phone: (518) 455-4851

District Office:

47-40 21 Street, Room 810

Long Island City, NY 11101

Phone: (718) 784-3194

Fax: (718) 472-0648

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New York State Commissioner of Education

MaryEllen Elia

New York Education Building

89 Washington Avenue

Albany, NY 12234

Phone: (518) 474-3852

elia@nysed.gov

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New York State Education Department

89 Washington Avenue

Board of Regents, Room 110 EB

Albany, New York 12234

Phone: (518) 474-5889

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Board of Regents Member, 9th Judicial District

Judith Johnson

Regents Office, State Education Building

89 Washington Avenue

Albany, NY, 12234

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President Donald Trump

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Washington D.C. 20500

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Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand

Washington, DC Office:

478 Russell Senate Office Building

Washington, DC 20510

Phone: (202) 224-4451

NY Office:

780 Third Avenue, Suite 2601

New York, NY 10017

Phone: (212) 688-6262

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Washington, DC Office:

322 Hart Senate Office Building

Washington, DC 20510

Phone: (202) 224-6542

Fax: (202) 228-3027

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780 Third Ave, Suite 2301

New York, NY 10017

Phone: (212) 486-4430

Fax: (202)228- 2838

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U.S. House of Representatives District 16

Congressman Eliot Engel

Washington, DC Office:

2462 Rayburn HOB

Washington, DC 20515

Phone: (202) 225-2464

Fax: (202) 225-5513

Westchester Office:

6 Gramatan Ave. Suite 205

Mt. Vernon, NY 10550

Phone: (914) 699-4100

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U.S. House of Representatives District 17

Congresswoman Nita Lowey

Washington, DC Office:

2365 Rayburn HOB

Washington, DC 20515

Phone: (202) 225-6506

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White Plains Office:

222 Mamaroneck Ave.#312

White Plains, NY 10605

Phone: (914) 428-1707

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