EDIBLE EDUCATION
Slicing up Inspiration for your Menu and More!
Looking for a little inspiration to help boost your menu? Welcome to our column featuring bites of nutrition, knowledge, and insight for your team’s menu creation needs | Pisanick Partners
While our team likes to drive in our “cooking lane” - we have embraced the power of social influence and its impact on letting the food we serve speak for itself in well-staged photos and video shorts. Enjoy some food for thought curated and ready to serve up for some quick and easy strategies for success.
a new recipe, but they are proud to showcase their skills and willingness to try new foods. Family engagement across venues including school kitchens, to classrooms, and even student homes is a great byproduct of what can be communicated by social media. Nutrition is truly a family affair in our humble and grateful opinion.
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If you spend much time on social media there is a good chance you will scroll by food photos. Food is one of the most photographed subjects on Instagram. Posting on social media how delicious the food produced in your cafeterias looks is a great way to get stakeholders’ attention. If you’re looking for guidance on how to take social media-worthy food photos, a highly recommended read is The Complete Recipe Writing Guide: Mastering Recipe Development, Writing, Testing, Nutrition Analysis, and Food Styling . Learn some tips and tricks to food styling that will help you capture mouthwatering food photos.
Video shorts can be created to demonstrate how some of the student’s favorite school recipes can be recreated at home. We’ve taken Harvest of the Month items such as Balsamic Roasted Brussels Sprouts and created short videos of the recipe being made in a home kitchen setting. Recipes that come to life via social media are another avenue to help engage your community! These low-tech and low-cost videos can be quick and easy if your budget won’t allow you to hire professionals. The direction can go both ways with leveraging recipes on social media. Not only do we share recipes on social media, but we also get ideas for new recipes from social media. The viral recipe for Baked Feta Pasta was inspiration for our school-friendly version and we even created a step-by-step pictorial on how to create the recipe for kitchen staff. Take your marketing one step further and leverage your digital menus to celebrate your recipes in fun and interactive ways by linking in opportunities to celebrate your local farming partners .
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TikTok nation meets adorable at-home chefs with our “Out of the Box” nutrition and culinary engagement series. They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and families that participated in and watched our recipe presentation videos have been duplicating our presentations on TikTok with their own renditions . Not only have these cuties learned
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