About Us
Mission:
Our mission is to empower the Bronx through nutritious food access and plant-based cooking education
Healthy Food Access:
Bronx Eats founded the weekly Fordham Farmers Market in 2024 at Fordham Plaza bringing the freshest local produce and foods to the Bronx.
Cooking Education:
We offer healthy cooking demos all over the Bronx to teach nutritious and affordable recipe preparation of diverse cuisines using as many fresh and local ingredients as possible.
We welcome all local partners to invite us to your organization for a healthy cooking demo with tastings!
Vision:
Bronx Eats becomes an integral part of Bronx community life, holding events that draw a crowd and spreading knowledge and skills that bring about a cascade of consequences:
An empowered population that will demand access to healthier produce in their neighborhoods, e.g. Fordham Farmers Market!
Master chefs and Bronx locals who showcase their recipes and culinary traditions at Bronx Eats classes.
Interns who go on to become health and food justice change-makers.
Residents who grow their own food or start community gardens, food co-ops, etc.
Changes in the culinary landscape of the Bronx, the attention of politicians to the borough’s food problem, and systemic change towards a healthier local food system.
Core Values
Empowerment
We aim to build confidence in managing your diet, health, and food choices.
Health
We aim to improve access to fruits and vegetables and make healthy eating attainable, easy, and fun.
Community
We aim to make cooking and mealtime a shared social opportunity which becomes a part of everyone’s daily life.
Independence
We aim to encourage participants to eat real and fresh food rather than relying on unhealthy processed foods.
Acting Locally
We love our communities and want to nourish them. While there are many global issues to tackle, we also have to tend our own garden. Bronx Eats aims to showcase the culinary knowledge of the borough which we like to call Bronx Power!
“The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual act of family and community, from mere animal biology to an act of culture”
— Michael Pollan