{"id":3555,"date":"2012-04-18T08:30:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T11:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2018-08-31T17:10:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T20:10:29","slug":"favela-organicas-1st-tasty-taster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=3555","title":{"rendered":"Favela Org\u00e2nica’s 1st Tasty Taster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas\"\"<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

With a menu that proudly announces the inclusion of orange peel, watercress stems and pumpkin skin, Sunday\u2019s Favela Org\u00e2nica taster event was an exciting introduction to an innovative food project for the favela and beyond.<\/p>\n

\"\"In the Babil\u00f4nia resident\u2019s association building in the pacified community overlooking Leme, Regina Tchelly<\/a> and her team served up a range of gourmet dishes made with ingredients commonly regarded as trash. The full vegetarian feijoada with watercress root farofa, watermelon peel risotto and pumpkin peel dessert may sound like unreasonably experimental cooking but in fact are delicious, satisfying dishes that maximize the nutritious and economical value of the ingredients.<\/p>\n

Regina Tchelly founded Favela Org\u00e2nica with R$140 out of her home in Babilonia. She explains: \u201cI\u2019m from Paraiba in the Northeast. There we manage to get much more out of the food than in an immense city like Rio where there\u2019s an absurd amount of waste.”<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea is that people with low incomes and high incomes alike learn how to use all the food they bring to their homes and produce delicious meals like we\u2019re serving today. It\u2019s low cost, healthier and more economical in the home.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Regina is a smiley one woman super force of passion and energy, out of which her vision to help people create new, healthier and more economical food habits has taken form and grown.<\/p>\n

With Favela Org\u00e2nica she has trained her current team of sixteen women, offering workshops in nutrition, consumption and waste, and gastronomy and the total utilization of foods. She says: \u201cWhen we say we utilize everything, people make the connection with trash but it\u2019s not trash, it\u2019s food. People throw vitamins away.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Sunday\u2019s event, where for just R$10 people could enjoy a full meal of truly tasty and filling dishes, refreshing fresh juices and a richly delicious chocolate and orange peel dessert, there were a lot of fresh converts to the Favela Org\u00e2nica way of thinking.<\/p>\n

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Juliana Beltrame, a carioca diner at the event, says: \u201cI\u2019ve never had a meal with a vegetable peel base before. It was really delicious and I\u2019m going to try to do something like this at home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fellow diner Sebasti\u00e3o Junior from Petr\u00f3polis was also impressed, saying: \u201cWe should really start to value this type of food.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s event is just the first in a series of monthly taster events with the goal of raising funds to buy machines such as blenders to make the food preparation easier and help Regina achieve the dream of a Favela Org\u00e2nica canteen in the community. \u201cMy imagination runs wild adapting chic dishes using the whole of the ingredients. When we have the canteen I\u2019ll be able to follow through with all my ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the project is growing, with workshops in Complexo de Alem\u00e3o and G\u00e1vea and providing outside buffet catering, Regina is still unable to devote all her time to Favela Org\u00e2nica. She says: \u201cAs a maid I earn a lot more than working like this at the moment. I still can\u2019t sustain myself with the project but I want the plans for the future to come to fruition quickly so that I can dedicate myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smiling broadly she says: \u201cIf the project\u2019s like this while I\u2019m still working as a maid, imagine what it\u2019s going to be like in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information on Favela Org\u00e2nica and details of future events visit favelaorganica.blogspot.com<\/a> or fan the Favela Org\u00e2nica Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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View the slideshow of this event and the community:<\/p>\n

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