Slow Food Chicago Cooks for #77Proud

This past Saturday, members of the Slow Food Chicago Board participated in the #77Proud Financial Resource Fair at the Bernhard Moos Elementary School - presented by the Chicago City Treasurer Kurt Summers and hosted by LUCHA Chicago. Board members Kim, Maia, Katie, Beth, and Molly all pitched in to provide a free meal for attendees by cooking soups made with mostly midwestern and thoughtfully sourced ingredients. Heidi also brought along a few Kendall College student volunteers to help us get set up. Here are a few memories and photos from the day. 

Slow Food Chicago information table. With lots of resources for good, clean, fair food for all!

Slow Food's resource table - books on canning, vegetarian eating, and even some seed savers making an appearance.

A quick reference from the 61st Street Farmer's Market with tips on how to eat good, clean, fair food on a budget.

Resource table - including Leanne Brown's Good and Cheap : Eating Well on $4/Day.

Creamy Potato and Chicken Tortilla soups!

#77Proud participants.

Kim poses with the chicken tortilla soup!

Vegan soups represent! Maia's curried ginger carrot and Katie's spicy tomato chickpea.

A hungry participant filling up on Beth's very popular oxtail soup.

Showing off her balanced meal of soup + bread (not to mention a rad lip color)!

The soup serving line - complete with the City Treasurer!

City Treasurer Kurt Summers joins the soup serving line.

Slow Food Chicago Board Members representing their soups.

We had a few soups leftover after the event (along with some bread). LUCHA helped us get in touch with a nearby youth center for donation. 

Any leftover soup from the event was donated to El Rescate in Humboldt Park so nothing went to waste.

Feeling inspired and looking to make your own soup at home? Here are a few recipes from the day.