Healthy Lifestyle Initiative

Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice

Food Demo Videos

Chef Brook Harlan's food-preparation demonstrations are an inspiration for easy ways to enjoy more fruits and vegetables.  His easy-to-follow techniques encourage simple preparation of season fruits and vegetables, whether they come from the backyard garden, farmers market, roadside farm stand, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) or the produce section of the local grocery store.

Click below to watch any of the five complete recipes.

Wonderful Winter Squash

Apple and Spinach Salad

Couscous with Broccoli

Yellow Summer Squash and Corn

Sauteed Kohlrabi

Brook Harlan is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America.  He teaches Culinary Arts classes at the Columbia Area Career Center through Columbia Public Schools.  Brook is the food editor for Inside Columbia magazine.

The recipes Chef Harlan demonstrates on the DVD are from Season and simple: A guide for enjoying fresh fruits and vegetables.  The more than 100 recipes in the guide use simple preparations and seasonings to bring out the taste of a fruit or vegetable at the peak of its flavor.  An alphabetical listing of the fruits and vegetables includes tips for selection, storage and preparation.

Copies of Seasonal and simple: A guide for enjoying fresh fruits and vegetables are available at http://extension.missouri.edu/mp909.

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