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Inaugural Kids Food Festival at Citi Pond
This weekend, January 21-22, from 10am-6pm each day, the Citi Pond at Bryant Park will hold the first Kids Food Fest. The event has been created to help in the fight against childhood obesity with a percentage of the proceeds from the Kids Food Festival will benefit Share Our Strength, the national nonprofit committed to ending childhood hunger in America. Unlike some of the more upscale and invitation-only foodie events in NYC, this one is free to the public. To fight childhood obesity, this event, geared at kids, will hold fun educational activities that focus on balanced food choices.
A few of the event offerings include 30-plus kiosks of free samples, food for sale, and other activities, such as Organic Valley's Hot Chocolate roaming backpack dispensers and a sneak peak of KickinKitchen.TV's new programming. A scavenger hunt invites kids to bounce from kiosk to kiosk learning about balanced food choices, with goodie bags going to the first 1000 successful entrants. And, of course, free-admission ice skating at Citi Pond at Bryant Park.
Some of the day's events that do have a price tag are cooking demos and hands-on programming in the James Beard Foundation Future Foodies Pavilion with acclaimed NYC Chefs and notable food personalities (tickets are $25 per child, per demo and are ideal for children 2 & up). Live music at the Kids Food Festival Performance Stage will also be going on, with tickets costing $25 per adult. Kids are free.
Expect chefs to include David Burke (David Burke Townhouse, Fishtail and David Burke Kitchen), Food Network/Cooking Channel Host and cookbook author Ellie Krieger, among others. Musical appearances will be made by singer/songwriter Kimmy Schwimmy and Joanie Leeds. Citi Pond at Bryant Park is located between W. 40th and W. 42nd Streets and 5th and 6th Avenues.
Image credit: Citi Pond at Bryant Park
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