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Date: Monday, September 12th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Participate in an orientation to the food bank.
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: The food bank's warehouse is located at Hunts Point in the Bronx. Although it was a trek to even find the warehouse, having the opportunity to view how the food bank distributes such large quantities of food was worthwhile. I was impressed by the sheer size of the foodbank and the amount of food it is capable of housing. It was also interesting to hear a big picture perspective of how the foodbank runs.
Learning Objectives Met: N/A
Hours: 4.5
Date: Tuesday, September 13th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Provide assistance in the food pantry and kitchen. Meet with Shanon to discuss the rotation, our expectations, and the projects I will be working on.
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: This was my first day working at the Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem. I worked in the food kitchen prepping dinner. The kitchen makes dinner a few hours in advance and serves meals at 4pm Monday through Friday. At first I was confused as to why they prep dinner so early, but I learned that some of the meals are prepackaged before dinner to serve as "to go" containers.
Learning Objectives Met: 2.4, 2.5, 2.13, 3.4
Hours: 4.5
Date: Wednesday, September 14th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Provide assistance in the food pantry and start an inventory for the pantry and kitchen.
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: I have learned that the pantry is chaotic! The pantry uses a point system in which clients are allowed a certain number of points for various food categories: grains, protein, fruits, and vegetables. Most of the clients enter the food pantry and have no idea what they are able to choose. They rely on the pantry workers to help them navigate the aisles and make food selections. Because a number of the clients do not speak English, I was able to practice Spanish. Ashley and I started to conduct an inventory for the food kitchen and pantry, but found everything in disarray. The inventory list that is used for handwriting the contents of the store room is not in alphabetical order and does not include a number of items in storage. The storage room itself is also out of order. Spices are in all corners of the storage room and all other items are similarly displaced. After attempting to do an inventory for several hours we decided it would be faster and better in the long run if we reorganized the storageroom itself and the inventory list for the future.
Learning Objectives Met: 2.4, 2.5, 3.3, 3.4, 3.6, 4.2
Hours:4.5
Date: Thursday, September 15th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Revise the inventory charts and reorganize the storage room
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges:I spent most of the day in the storageroom reorganizing storage items so that they could be easily found. My afternoon was spent conducting another inventory, but after a few hours it was obvious that unless the inventory list was reorganized the process would be long and difficult for every future inventory.
Learning Objectives Met: 2.5, 3.3, 3.6, 4.2
Hours:4.5
Date: Friday, September 16 Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Complete the kitchen and pantry inventory, reorganize the inventory list
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: I spent the morning typing up the inventory list into excel and making the inventory list flow with the organization of the storage room contents. There was a great response to the new inventory system.
Learning Objectives Met: 2.5, 3.3, 3.6, 4.2
Hours:5.5
Date: Monday, September 19th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Create a nutrition tip for the community kitchen, create a ChooseMy Plate display for the kitchen, and order nutrition education pamphlets.
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: After drafting my first tip to go on the board in the kitchen, Shanon had a lot of great feedback. Shanon gave me some better perspective on the population that eats in the kitchen. The population that eats in the food bank want quick and simple information that is specific to their eating patterns. With her feedback I revised my tip and made it much shorter, easier to understand, and to the point. I also spent the afternoon creating a ChooseMy Plate display for the kitchen foyer.
Learning Objectives Met: 1.2, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 3.2, 3.5,
Hours: 6
Date: Tuesday, September 20th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Set up ChooseMy Plate display, create a ChooseMy Plate handout, start to contact local CSAs to contact about potential partnerships with the kitchen and pantry, help in the pantry.
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: I created the ChooseMy Plate handout and again Shanon's feedback was helpful. I definitely questioned how worthwhile the nutrition tips and display boards are in general. Most clients walk right by the displays and concentrate on the food they are picking up in the pantry or the food they are eating in the kitchen. I would love to see more "point of purchase" nutrition tips (although there is no actual purchasing per se). I also learned that the food bank has a great cooking class called cook shop for residents which Shanon and the community kitchen and food pantry are a part of. I think programs that teach actual skills are more beneficial than nutrition tips that are displayed in hard to read spaces.
Learning Objectives Met: 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, 2.5, 2.8, 2.11, 2.12, 3.2, 3.4, 3.5
Hours: 6
Date: Wednesday, September 21st Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Contact local CSAs about partnerships, provide help in the pantry.
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges:I contacted several of the local CSAs within the area and tracked their contact information, our conversations, their pickup schedules in an excel document. I learned how hard the hurricane had hit up state New York. Many of the CSAs did not have leftover produce, because many of the farms they received food from had been devastated by floods. Luckily programs like CSAs can help farmers survive bad seasons. Many of the CSAs asked that we contact them later about a possible partnership. One relationship was secured with an organization called New Song. The community kitchen will start to pick up produce from them every Friday.
Learning Objectives Met: 1.3, 2.8, 2.11
Hours:b
Date: Thursday, September 22nd Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location:Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Create a recipe and recipe handout for the pantry, create a nutrition tip for the pantry, help in the pantry, help with pantry cards
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: The point system the pantry uses is used as a systematic way to ensure that clients receive three meals for nine days, one of their HPNAP requirements for funding. Ashley and I spent our afternoon completing the worksheets the food bank designed as a double check system for ensuring pantry clients are meeting the requirement. I had never heard of HPNAP before so it was interesting to hear about a food assistance program that provides funding to food banks like Food Bank for New York.
Learning Objectives Met: 2.4, 2.5, 3.2, 3.4, 3.5, 3.7
Hours:6.5
Date: Friday, September 23rd Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: None
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges:I spent the day at Cooler Goldwater completing all of the steps necessary for obtaining medical clearance.
Learning Objectives Met: N/A
Hours:3
Date: Monday, September 26th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Collect missing recipes, create a nutrition tip for the kitchen
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: During my rotation Shanon wants Ashley and I to run a nutrition analysis for the food served in the kitchen. This will be problematic because the kitchen does not write down any of their recipes. In the process of collecting recipes I quickly discovered that there is an interesting relationship between Shanon and the kitchen chefs. Everyone doesn't seem to be on the same page with increasing the amount of healthy food served in the kitchen. Apparently, Ashley and I are not the first interns to work on this project either. The chefs were frustrated that we were asking for recipes, because the previous intern had already done the same thing. However, the intern had not documented everything properly and there were missing documents and obviously incorrect recipes.
Learning Objectives Met: 3.2, 3.4, 3.7, 4.3
Hours:6
Date: Tuesday, September 27th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Type up missing recipes, and collect additional missing recipes
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges:Ashley and I started the process of typing up the new recipes and had to meet with the chefs to collect remaining missing recipes. By demonstrating to them how "wrong" the previous interns recipes were and joking about the entire situation they started to warm up to us and were more willing to take the time to write out their recipes.
Learning Objectives Met: 3.7
Hours: 5
Date: Wednesday, September 28th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Help Ashley prep for her tuna pasta recipe give away, write up nutrition tips, create a nutrition log
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges:There are a number of different nutrition education activities that happen at the kitchen and food pantry. Shanon wanted a way to track all of the different activities. I put together an excel document that tracked everything all of the activities that happen.
Learning Objectives Met: 2.5, 3.2, 3.4
Hours:6
Date: Thursday, September 29th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day:Collect additional recipes and type them up
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges:The recipe saga continues... Ashley and I discovered more missing recipes and obtained them from the chefs. The program we were going to use for conducting the nutrition analysis, Chef Tec, was not running properly. The actual nutrition analysis is going to have to be postponed until later when an administrator can set up our log in information.
Learning Objectives Met: 3.7
Hours: 5
Date: Friday, September 30th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Pick up produce from the CSA, enter recipes intro Chef Tec
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges:I started to enter recipes into Chef Tec, but there were obvious errors with the program. Shanon was out for a good part of the day so Ashley and I typed up the issues we were having and sent them to Shanon so we could discuss everything on Monday.
Learning Objectives Met: N/A
Hours:5.5
Date: Monday, October 3rd Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day:Enter recipes into Chef Tec, create a recipe for the food pantry and translate the recipe card to Spanish.
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: N/A
Learning Objectives Met: 3.2, 3.7
Hours:6
Date: Tuesday, October 4th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Give pasta salad cooking demonstration, double check Chef Tec, enter missing inventory items to Chef Tec
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: N/A
Learning Objectives Met: 1.2, 2.1, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3.2, 3.4, 3.5,
Hours: 5
Date: Wednesday, October 5th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Correct yields for Chef Tec
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: The recipes we collected from staff did not give correct yields. Ashley and I had to enter the Chef Tec system and re-enter recipes to provide a more accurate yield.
Learning Objectives Met: N/A
Hours: 5.5
Date: Thursday, October 6th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Observe Just Say Yes Cooking Demonstration
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: Just Say Yes is a local group that visits the local community to provide cooking demonstrations. It was interesting to see another person’s approach to cooking demonstrations. I felt that their presentation was a little too long for our specific clientele.
Learning Objectives Met: N/A
Hours: 6
Date: Friday, October 7th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Help with Ashley's three bean salad demonstration prep, pick up CSA produce, create a new seasoning salt alternative, laminate new pantry signs, print pantry signs, create a nutrition tip
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: We experimented in the kitchen with new seasoning salt alternatives to lower the sodium content of meals served in the kitchen.
Learning Objectives Met: 2.5, 3.2, 3.4
Hours:5.5
Date: Monday, October 10th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: None- holiday no work
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: N/A
Learning Objectives Met: N/A
Hours: 0
Date: Tuesday, October 11th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Make chili and hand out recipes, organize Chef Tec report, attend Just Food canning meeting, serve dinner in the food kitchen
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges:When looking at the pantry items a vegetarian chili stands out to me as one of the easiest recipes for canned goods. I thought that chili would be accepted by most of the pantry clients. I was surprised to see how many clients were not interested in trying the chili. I wanted to have better Spanish skills so that I could engage them in a conversation about why they had such an aversion to chili. Chili is often higher in fat and other ingredients that can make someone feel sick. Perhaps they had bad reactions to chili in the past or possibly they were afraid of the spice level. Working in the pantry helps me to see the value in learning Spanish.
Learning Objectives Met: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.5, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6
Hours: 8
Date: Wednesday, October 12th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Prepare for Chef Tec presentation, calculate nutrition guidelines/goals, conduct seasoning salt tasting with the chefs, taste test canned food vs rinsed canned food
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: N/A
Learning Objectives Met: 1.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.8, 2.9, 2.12, 3.2, 3.3, 3.5, 3.7, 4.7, 4.8
Hours:6.5
Date: Thursday, October 13th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Complete Chef Tec project presentation
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: We spent most of the day preparing for the presentation and making handouts for the attendees. The presentation was designed to be highly interactive and the presentation was a success! The community kitchen agreed to develop a mission statement for the kitchen geared more towards promoting the health of clients and the cooks agreed to eliminate the use of Lawry’s seasoning salt from the kitchen.
Learning Objectives Met: 1.3, 2.3, 2.5, 2.8, 2.9, 2.12, 3.2, 3.3, 3.5,
Hours:6.5
Date: Friday, October 14th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Organize all materials worked on in the past five weeks to hand over to future interns and Shanon, pick up CSA produce, orient Shanon to Chef Tec, assist with prep of food pantry for new card system, put up nutrition tip in the kitchen
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: We spent the day preparing for our departure and ensuring that the kitchen staff had everything they needed to continue the Chef Tec project. We were also pleasantly surprised when we walked into the kitchen and were greeted by the cooks and the news that they had developed a seasoning spice of their own that was lower in sodium than Lawry’s!
Learning Objectives Met: 3.2
Hours: 6.5
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Participate in an orientation to the food bank.
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: The food bank's warehouse is located at Hunts Point in the Bronx. Although it was a trek to even find the warehouse, having the opportunity to view how the food bank distributes such large quantities of food was worthwhile. I was impressed by the sheer size of the foodbank and the amount of food it is capable of housing. It was also interesting to hear a big picture perspective of how the foodbank runs.
Learning Objectives Met: N/A
Hours: 4.5
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Date: Tuesday, September 13th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Provide assistance in the food pantry and kitchen. Meet with Shanon to discuss the rotation, our expectations, and the projects I will be working on.
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: This was my first day working at the Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem. I worked in the food kitchen prepping dinner. The kitchen makes dinner a few hours in advance and serves meals at 4pm Monday through Friday. At first I was confused as to why they prep dinner so early, but I learned that some of the meals are prepackaged before dinner to serve as "to go" containers.
Learning Objectives Met: 2.4, 2.5, 2.13, 3.4
Hours: 4.5
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Date: Wednesday, September 14th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Provide assistance in the food pantry and start an inventory for the pantry and kitchen.
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: I have learned that the pantry is chaotic! The pantry uses a point system in which clients are allowed a certain number of points for various food categories: grains, protein, fruits, and vegetables. Most of the clients enter the food pantry and have no idea what they are able to choose. They rely on the pantry workers to help them navigate the aisles and make food selections. Because a number of the clients do not speak English, I was able to practice Spanish. Ashley and I started to conduct an inventory for the food kitchen and pantry, but found everything in disarray. The inventory list that is used for handwriting the contents of the store room is not in alphabetical order and does not include a number of items in storage. The storage room itself is also out of order. Spices are in all corners of the storage room and all other items are similarly displaced. After attempting to do an inventory for several hours we decided it would be faster and better in the long run if we reorganized the storageroom itself and the inventory list for the future.
Learning Objectives Met: 2.4, 2.5, 3.3, 3.4, 3.6, 4.2
Hours:4.5
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Date: Thursday, September 15th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Revise the inventory charts and reorganize the storage room
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges:I spent most of the day in the storageroom reorganizing storage items so that they could be easily found. My afternoon was spent conducting another inventory, but after a few hours it was obvious that unless the inventory list was reorganized the process would be long and difficult for every future inventory.
Learning Objectives Met: 2.5, 3.3, 3.6, 4.2
Hours:4.5
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Date: Friday, September 16 Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Complete the kitchen and pantry inventory, reorganize the inventory list
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: I spent the morning typing up the inventory list into excel and making the inventory list flow with the organization of the storage room contents. There was a great response to the new inventory system.
Learning Objectives Met: 2.5, 3.3, 3.6, 4.2
Hours:5.5
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Date: Monday, September 19th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Create a nutrition tip for the community kitchen, create a ChooseMy Plate display for the kitchen, and order nutrition education pamphlets.
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: After drafting my first tip to go on the board in the kitchen, Shanon had a lot of great feedback. Shanon gave me some better perspective on the population that eats in the kitchen. The population that eats in the food bank want quick and simple information that is specific to their eating patterns. With her feedback I revised my tip and made it much shorter, easier to understand, and to the point. I also spent the afternoon creating a ChooseMy Plate display for the kitchen foyer.
Learning Objectives Met: 1.2, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 3.2, 3.5,
Hours: 6
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Date: Tuesday, September 20th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Set up ChooseMy Plate display, create a ChooseMy Plate handout, start to contact local CSAs to contact about potential partnerships with the kitchen and pantry, help in the pantry.
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: I created the ChooseMy Plate handout and again Shanon's feedback was helpful. I definitely questioned how worthwhile the nutrition tips and display boards are in general. Most clients walk right by the displays and concentrate on the food they are picking up in the pantry or the food they are eating in the kitchen. I would love to see more "point of purchase" nutrition tips (although there is no actual purchasing per se). I also learned that the food bank has a great cooking class called cook shop for residents which Shanon and the community kitchen and food pantry are a part of. I think programs that teach actual skills are more beneficial than nutrition tips that are displayed in hard to read spaces.
Learning Objectives Met: 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, 2.5, 2.8, 2.11, 2.12, 3.2, 3.4, 3.5
Hours: 6
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Date: Wednesday, September 21st Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Contact local CSAs about partnerships, provide help in the pantry.
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges:I contacted several of the local CSAs within the area and tracked their contact information, our conversations, their pickup schedules in an excel document. I learned how hard the hurricane had hit up state New York. Many of the CSAs did not have leftover produce, because many of the farms they received food from had been devastated by floods. Luckily programs like CSAs can help farmers survive bad seasons. Many of the CSAs asked that we contact them later about a possible partnership. One relationship was secured with an organization called New Song. The community kitchen will start to pick up produce from them every Friday.
Learning Objectives Met: 1.3, 2.8, 2.11
Hours:b
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Date: Thursday, September 22nd Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location:Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Create a recipe and recipe handout for the pantry, create a nutrition tip for the pantry, help in the pantry, help with pantry cards
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: The point system the pantry uses is used as a systematic way to ensure that clients receive three meals for nine days, one of their HPNAP requirements for funding. Ashley and I spent our afternoon completing the worksheets the food bank designed as a double check system for ensuring pantry clients are meeting the requirement. I had never heard of HPNAP before so it was interesting to hear about a food assistance program that provides funding to food banks like Food Bank for New York.
Learning Objectives Met: 2.4, 2.5, 3.2, 3.4, 3.5, 3.7
Hours:6.5
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Date: Friday, September 23rd Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: None
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges:I spent the day at Cooler Goldwater completing all of the steps necessary for obtaining medical clearance.
Learning Objectives Met: N/A
Hours:3
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Date: Monday, September 26th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Collect missing recipes, create a nutrition tip for the kitchen
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: During my rotation Shanon wants Ashley and I to run a nutrition analysis for the food served in the kitchen. This will be problematic because the kitchen does not write down any of their recipes. In the process of collecting recipes I quickly discovered that there is an interesting relationship between Shanon and the kitchen chefs. Everyone doesn't seem to be on the same page with increasing the amount of healthy food served in the kitchen. Apparently, Ashley and I are not the first interns to work on this project either. The chefs were frustrated that we were asking for recipes, because the previous intern had already done the same thing. However, the intern had not documented everything properly and there were missing documents and obviously incorrect recipes.
Learning Objectives Met: 3.2, 3.4, 3.7, 4.3
Hours:6
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Date: Tuesday, September 27th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Type up missing recipes, and collect additional missing recipes
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges:Ashley and I started the process of typing up the new recipes and had to meet with the chefs to collect remaining missing recipes. By demonstrating to them how "wrong" the previous interns recipes were and joking about the entire situation they started to warm up to us and were more willing to take the time to write out their recipes.
Learning Objectives Met: 3.7
Hours: 5
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Date: Wednesday, September 28th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Help Ashley prep for her tuna pasta recipe give away, write up nutrition tips, create a nutrition log
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges:There are a number of different nutrition education activities that happen at the kitchen and food pantry. Shanon wanted a way to track all of the different activities. I put together an excel document that tracked everything all of the activities that happen.
Learning Objectives Met: 2.5, 3.2, 3.4
Hours:6
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Date: Thursday, September 29th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day:Collect additional recipes and type them up
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges:The recipe saga continues... Ashley and I discovered more missing recipes and obtained them from the chefs. The program we were going to use for conducting the nutrition analysis, Chef Tec, was not running properly. The actual nutrition analysis is going to have to be postponed until later when an administrator can set up our log in information.
Learning Objectives Met: 3.7
Hours: 5
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Date: Friday, September 30th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Pick up produce from the CSA, enter recipes intro Chef Tec
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges:I started to enter recipes into Chef Tec, but there were obvious errors with the program. Shanon was out for a good part of the day so Ashley and I typed up the issues we were having and sent them to Shanon so we could discuss everything on Monday.
Learning Objectives Met: N/A
Hours:5.5
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Date: Monday, October 3rd Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day:Enter recipes into Chef Tec, create a recipe for the food pantry and translate the recipe card to Spanish.
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: N/A
Learning Objectives Met: 3.2, 3.7
Hours:6
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Date: Tuesday, October 4th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Give pasta salad cooking demonstration, double check Chef Tec, enter missing inventory items to Chef Tec
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: N/A
Learning Objectives Met: 1.2, 2.1, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3.2, 3.4, 3.5,
Hours: 5
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Date: Wednesday, October 5th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Correct yields for Chef Tec
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: The recipes we collected from staff did not give correct yields. Ashley and I had to enter the Chef Tec system and re-enter recipes to provide a more accurate yield.
Learning Objectives Met: N/A
Hours: 5.5
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Date: Thursday, October 6th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Observe Just Say Yes Cooking Demonstration
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: Just Say Yes is a local group that visits the local community to provide cooking demonstrations. It was interesting to see another person’s approach to cooking demonstrations. I felt that their presentation was a little too long for our specific clientele.
Learning Objectives Met: N/A
Hours: 6
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Date: Friday, October 7th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Help with Ashley's three bean salad demonstration prep, pick up CSA produce, create a new seasoning salt alternative, laminate new pantry signs, print pantry signs, create a nutrition tip
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: We experimented in the kitchen with new seasoning salt alternatives to lower the sodium content of meals served in the kitchen.
Learning Objectives Met: 2.5, 3.2, 3.4
Hours:5.5
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Date: Monday, October 10th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: None- holiday no work
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: N/A
Learning Objectives Met: N/A
Hours: 0
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Date: Tuesday, October 11th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Make chili and hand out recipes, organize Chef Tec report, attend Just Food canning meeting, serve dinner in the food kitchen
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges:When looking at the pantry items a vegetarian chili stands out to me as one of the easiest recipes for canned goods. I thought that chili would be accepted by most of the pantry clients. I was surprised to see how many clients were not interested in trying the chili. I wanted to have better Spanish skills so that I could engage them in a conversation about why they had such an aversion to chili. Chili is often higher in fat and other ingredients that can make someone feel sick. Perhaps they had bad reactions to chili in the past or possibly they were afraid of the spice level. Working in the pantry helps me to see the value in learning Spanish.
Learning Objectives Met: 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.5, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6
Hours: 8
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Date: Wednesday, October 12th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Prepare for Chef Tec presentation, calculate nutrition guidelines/goals, conduct seasoning salt tasting with the chefs, taste test canned food vs rinsed canned food
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: N/A
Learning Objectives Met: 1.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.8, 2.9, 2.12, 3.2, 3.3, 3.5, 3.7, 4.7, 4.8
Hours:6.5
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Date: Thursday, October 13th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Complete Chef Tec project presentation
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: We spent most of the day preparing for the presentation and making handouts for the attendees. The presentation was designed to be highly interactive and the presentation was a success! The community kitchen agreed to develop a mission statement for the kitchen geared more towards promoting the health of clients and the cooks agreed to eliminate the use of Lawry’s seasoning salt from the kitchen.
Learning Objectives Met: 1.3, 2.3, 2.5, 2.8, 2.9, 2.12, 3.2, 3.3, 3.5,
Hours:6.5
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Date: Friday, October 14th Rotation: Food Service Rotation
Location: Community Kitchen and Food Pantry of West Harlem
Activities / Assignments for the day: Organize all materials worked on in the past five weeks to hand over to future interns and Shanon, pick up CSA produce, orient Shanon to Chef Tec, assist with prep of food pantry for new card system, put up nutrition tip in the kitchen
Comments / Thoughts / What You Learned/ Challenges: We spent the day preparing for our departure and ensuring that the kitchen staff had everything they needed to continue the Chef Tec project. We were also pleasantly surprised when we walked into the kitchen and were greeted by the cooks and the news that they had developed a seasoning spice of their own that was lower in sodium than Lawry’s!
Learning Objectives Met: 3.2
Hours: 6.5
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DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.
DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.
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