Sam Kass

Hello, everybody.

I'm really excited to be here.

Let's start with the crab cakes.

That beautiful little peach jam in the little mozzarella cup you had.

Yes, wine is definitely a fruit, people.

Now, this menu has been put together with ingredients that experts and models predict will not be around for our kids and our grandkids.

And you'll see that it's many of the foods that we hold dear.

When we say the words climate change, what do the words climate change actually mean?

But the point here is not to depress you or to scare you.

It's not.

It's not.

It's to try to make an emotional connection in a way that I think food, only food can, to understand really what's at stake when we're having these conversations.

Now, the good news is on our plates really does hold some of the biggest both problems but also potentials to solve these challenges of anywhere that we have.

And that's the part that gives me a ton of hope.

Most people didn't even have a basic connection at that point to their health and well-being and food.

The idea that it was having such a big impact on so many people's health, we hadn't connected those dots.

And it was a lot of work to do to just try to say, like, how do we shift the culture and put these issues and how we're feeding ourselves sort of front and center.

The idea was, one, can we start to shift the culture?

Like, can we really elevate these issues on people's minds and start to shift our core values?

And that we care about the health of food and the impact that food is having on our society and our culture.