Food Matters!!!
The first MVXC cooking class has been scheduled…and the response from the team was enthusiastic! The date was announced at practice on Friday, October 12, and the class was immediately oversubscribed.
We just heard back from Whole Foods and their proposed menu for our first class will include smoothies, how to make our own healthy protein bars, vegetarian and non-vegetarian versions of quinoa salads (a superfood!) to go with a vegetarian and non-vegetarian main course.
We are really excited about this class! Nutrition is truly part of the frontier in improving athletic performance. Even more important than athletic performance is simply our general health. Almost 20% of high school aged kids across the USA are obese, and while that does not apply to you, that statistic does say something about the attention our country places on nutrition!
And on top of the health and athletic issues…it would just be kind of cool if the members of the MVXC team graduate knowing how to roast a chicken, whip up a bowl of Pho, dress a salad, make a Bolognese sauce, bake some Naan. You will find as you go through life, if you can cook, you will always have friends! Pretty cool, don’t you think?
The athletes listed below have signed up for the class. We will each contribute $10 to the cost of the class; please drop by your money to Coach Flatow over the next couple weeks. If everyone on the list does not confirm their attendance and drop by their contribution, we will reopen the class to more people.
Thank you to Mrs. La Plain for arranging this class with Whole Foods. This won’t be our last class!
We are smoking hot!
MVXC Cooks!
Whole Foods, Cupertino, at their test kitchen
Friday, November 2, 5pm-7pm
Cost: $10
Runner/Chefs:
Kirsten Do
Bridget Gottleib
Zach Patti
Rohan Choudhury
Ismaeel Sheriff
Malcolm Flint
John Hsaio
Isabel La Plain
Casey Darmawan
Perry Ting
Young Guo
Justin Chang
Michael Trihn
Omkar Kawade
Erin Luks
Sanjna Bharadwaj
Julia Chang
Chloe Li
Miranda Chen
Rana Singh
Vikrant Marathe
Anand Rao
Wyatt Liao
Ching Pan
Eric Nguyen
Sara Severietti
Emma Seyer
Vincent Huang