Food activist Joshna Maharaj says delicious Ontario-grown food is waiting for you—all you have to do is ask. Joshna Maharaj has a message for anyone who’s suffered the disappointment of hospital food. “Be angrier on that feedback form! Tell them exactly how you feel.” Problem is, she says, you get that feedback card after your stay, when all you want to do is get home. “So you’re in a hurry, and you think, oh you know, for hospital food it wasn’t that bad. But for real food, it’s terrible!”
Maharaj is not one to mince words. And she knows a thing or two about institutional kitchens. She was the chef for food-justice advocacy group The Stop Community Food Centres for three years, where she pushed for increased access to healthy food through a variety of programs and community services. Since 2011, the activist-chef has helped turn food programs around at Scarborough General Hospital and SickKids, bringing more local food to the menus and re-igniting a passion for scratch cooking among the kitchen staff. Her good works have been made possible by the backing of the Greenbelt Fund—and her successes are inspiring more institutions to boost their local-food sourcing.
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Greenbelt Fund
By: Dick Snyder
January 18, 2015
