We are what we eat? So it seems, and the sooner we discover that healthy food is delicious food, the better off we’ll be.
That is what Mollie Katzen drove home when she spoke at Memories Lost & Found, the signature fundraiser of AWARE, a guild supporting Colorado’s chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association.
“Is it my goal to get people to eat what I eat?” she asked. “No, it isn’t. But with study after study proving that there’s a definite relationship between a healthy diet and preventing diseases of all kinds, I want to do all that I can to get rid of that firewall in our minds that divides food into two camps, the idea that if something is good for you it is not going to be something you’d enjoy eating.”
A best-selling author and inductee into the James Beard Cookbook Hall of Fame, Katzen encouraged her audience to rearrange their plates so that favorite foods remain, but in different amounts; to eat “slowly and mindfully” and to try fruits and vegetables they haven’t eaten before. “I promise you’ll be pleasantly surprised.”
She also praised the Hyatt Regency Convention Center chefs for preparing a tasty and attractively presented luncheon entree that included such good-for-you ingredients as boneless, skinless chicken, sweet potatoes, spinach, cranberries and Brussels sprouts.
Kay Landon and Linda Moler chaired the event that also included presentation of the Helen Ginsburg Visionary Award to Fred Wolfe. For six years, he has collected pledges totaling $140,000 for walking 118 miles to Vail in memory of his father, an architect and outdoors enthusiast who succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease.
Honorary chairs Frances and Monica Owens helped welcome a crowd that included Donna and Gary Antonoff; Phyllis Coors; Dale and Bob Silverberg; AWARE president Tracey Welch; president-elect Jerilyn Bensard; Kathy Klugman; Jane Courtright; Susie Mostow; Jane Swalling; Betty Phillips; Adrienne Ruston Fitzgibbons; Elaine Wolf; Bill and Twyla Bridgwater; Barb Ingalls; Carol Fenster; Peter Burg; Lee Clayton Roper; Barry Peterson; and CBS4 meteorologist Ed Greene, who emceed.
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Folk art from Zimbabwe and sculptures from the Chapungu Warehouse Gallery will be up for bid Thursday when the Zata Project hosts a cocktail party and auction at the Newman Center on the University of Denver campus. Learn more at … Janet Mordecai, Linda Childears, Gaku Homma, Kristin Richardson and Nicole Saucedo are among those being honored at the National Philanthropy Day Luncheon that begins at 11 a.m. Friday at the Hyatt Regency Convention Center. Tickets are $45; register at . … On Sunday, the members of Denver chapter of The Links, Inc. invite their friends to join them at Saks Fifth Avenue for Shop, Savor & Support. The 5 p.m. event is chaired by Kathryn Kaiser, who notes that the $50 admission includes food from a host of restaurants and catering companies, including Elegant Catering, M & D’s Cafe, Sam Taylor’s BBQ and Kona Grill. Proceeds go to Stepping Into the Future, a chapter initiative that supports such causes as Hallet Fundamental Academy in Park Hill.
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