Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Its great to see the conversation, everyone having a good time. The food was wonderful. We welcome you again to this. Unch Panel Plenary session im going to introduce the moderator and the moderator will introduce the panelists. I am happy to introduce our panel moderator. Professor mcdowell is the professor of literary studies and the director of the College Institute for africanamerican studies at the university of virginia. She has been a member of the uva her booksnce 1987 and include studies of fiction by africanamerican women as well as numerous articles and in scholarly publications. Professor mcdowell has been extensively involved in editorial projects pertaining to africanamerican literature. Me in welcoming professor deborah mcdowell. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Thank you, marcus. Thank all of you for your presence. Thanks to the organizers for this wonderful event they have , with many more exciting panels to come i task, decidedly simple
David the contest came to us several months ago. We started looking at this contest, cooking up change. The idea with this is to have students use schooluse foods that are available at most high schools, but turn it into a healthy meal. They actually tried Different Things and we went through lots of different tests to see what works and what doesnt, and at the same time, one of the most difficult parts was keeping it nutritious and tasty, and make it so that other students would want to win this contest. Damian those dont always go handinhand, nutritious and tasty. David true. Damian talk about the challenges there, jaye, in making something that is tasty but its also nutritious at the samewe do have some pictures and some images that yall provided for us. Jaye some of the challenges that i faced was keeping the sodium, the salt levels, and the calories down, while trying to make it not as greasy as some schools. Damian so, you have to be a little bit scientific as well when youre tal