St. Luke's Green Cuisine
Our Mission:
To Provide Highly Satisfying Food that Sustains the Health of Ourselves, Our Community, and the Earth
Our Vision:
St. Luke’s Wood River Medical Center will provide a food service program that will set the example for health care and other institutions to follow.
At many institutions, reconstituted potatoes, canned soup, and instant tapioca pudding are daily staples. Not so at St. Luke’s Wood River Medical Center, where we have incorporated fresh ingredients and fresh ideas into the standard cafeteria fare and patient meals. By taking the Earth-friendly step of implementing a sustainable foods program called “St. Luke’s Green Cuisine,”
St. Luke’s is changing the way people think of “hospital food.”
Sustainable foods are produced by people and with practices that value and care for the earth, workers, food, and human health. Working with local businesses such as Hailey Coffee Company, Bigwood Bread, Cloverleaf Dairy, and Idaho’s Bounty, the hospital has taken the Healthy Food In Healthcare Pledge: to support procurement of local, nutritious, sustainably-produced food demonstrates a commitment to “first, do no harm” as part of a whole hospital approach to preventive medicine that protects the health of patients, staff, and community.
What we are doing to make a difference:
Food - Seasonal menus prepared with fresh, whole fruits and vegetables used in recipes based on simplicity, nutritional value, and taste. Click here to see our Summer Menu Week One or Summer Menu Week Two, starting May 3, 2010.
Facilities - Recycling, composting, minimizing disposables, and packaging, reducing energy and water consumption.
Staff - Training, culinary enhancement, workflow evaluations, and education.
Fiscal Responsibility – Higher quality, less quantity.
Green Cuisine Cafe Hours
Monday-Friday: 7-10 a.m., 11 a.m.-7 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday: 8 a.m.-7 p.m.
Grill Daily: 8 a.m.-6 p.m.
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Saturday, September 25, 2010 Sun Valley Harvest Festival For further information, please call St. Luke's Wood River |
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Crop to Cuisine!
A new garden at Sawtooth Botanical Gardens is growing fresh herbs like sage, cilantro, parsley and rosemary and fresh vegetables including lettuce, peppers, tomatoes, beans, zucchini and squash to use in the Green Cuisine Café.
Sawtooth Botanical Gardens donated the garden plots to St. Luke’s and Sun Valley Garden Center donated the plants. St. Luke’s employee volunteers planted and maintain the garden plots.
Thank you to our community friends for their generous donations to St. Luke's ! |
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Green Cuisine Introduces Guest Chef Program!
In celebration of sustainable foods, and in conjunction with local chef's in the Wood River Valley, St. Luke’s brings the Guest Chef program to the Green Cuisine Cafe.
The guest chef menus incorporate St. Luke’s pledge to feature local, healthy and sustainable items. We invite the community to come eat with us!
| Jim Funk from Despo's
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Chris Kastner from CK's
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Green Cuisine in the News!
Sun Valley Magazine Summer / Fall 2010
"Tasty Hospital Food Defies Tradition" by Dana Chivvas
A Team from Green Cuisine Presents at the Society for Foodservice Management’s 30th National Conference in San Francisco
"Shades of Green... And How to Deepen Your Commitment to Sustainability"
Given the last 18 months of economic uncertainty, one might wonder if sustainability is “suspendable.” Yet, sustainability is not a fad; it’s a way of life. This session features John Turenne, a leading authority on how foodservice operations can embrace sustainability within the context of their organization’s specific goals. Joining John will be foodservice operators who’ll relate their experiences in going—and staying—green.
Becky McCarver, MS, RD, LD and John Turenne, president of Sustainable Food Systems, present at the San Francisco conference.
New Releases:
St. Luke's Wood River Introduces Green Cuisine
Come Eat With Us! Green Cuisine Introduces Winter Menu
Green Cuisine Introduces Summer Sustainable Menus
Green Cuisine Policy
In support of our vision, St. Luke’s Wood River Medical Center will provide a food service program that will set the example for health care and other institutions to follow. Please click to see our policy and minimum ingredient specification.
For more information about our Green Cuisine program, please call (208) 727-8353.
"Do what you can
one food at a time,
one meal at a time,
one day at a time."
