Join us for a spectacular Days of Taste on September 27th at Jungle Island!

AIWF Days of Taste^® is a discovery-based program for fourth and fifth grade children to learn about food and how it weaves its way through daily life from the farm to the table.

The program teams up chefs, food professionals, farmers and teachers to guide elementary school children through an exploration of food and nutrition, giving them the opportunity to discuss, savor and compare different taste sensations and flavor from locally grown foods.

South Florida has a totally different harvest time, we usually do our Days of Taste program in the spring. Ours is a one day program where we go to the classroom, take the children to a market and go to a restaurant where they help to prepare a salad and lunch. In 2008/2009/2010 we have paired with Whole Foods Market, The Kampong,The Miami Beach Botanical Garden, Sublime, Fruit & Spice Park.The Palms Hotel and Le Cordon Bleu, holding our program in these locales. Whole Foods Market has been our sponsor for four years now. This year we added the Culinary School at the Art Institute as a location.

Previous Days of Taste we visited schools in Miami-Dade, Broward & Palm Beach County. The students have visited various specialty super markets such as Whole Foods, Norman Brothers, and Gardner's Market. Afterwards the children prepared lunch at Norman's in Coral Gables, Chef Allen in Aventura and Michael's Kitchen in Hollywood.

We are looking for new volunteers to formulate our program. If you are interested in volunteering, please email aiwfsouthflorida@aol.com.