March 25, 2010 – Got plans for lunch this Friday? The Knox County Health Department usually doesn’t come to mind as a lunch spot, but this Friday healthy spring vegetables are on the menu at KCHD. The quarterly cooking demonstrations titled “Change Your Diet, Change Your Life” continue from noon to 1 p.m. this Friday, March 26 in the KCHD auditorium at 140 Dameron Avenue. The class is free and open to the public: Please call 215-5170 to reserve space. Parking also is free and convenient. Fresh food always tastes better and asparagus, spinach and other greens are in season now. Terri Geiser, KCHD health education program manager and cooking instructor with the Glass Bazaar, will share her culinary expertise with tips on eating with the season. Participants will learn to make a spring veggie salad using arugula, asparagus, snow peas, red potatoes and pecans in a Dijon vinaigrette. Susan Fowlkes, KCHD director of clinical nutrition will discuss nutritional benefits... (more...)

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