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How are meals prepared for court appearances and what efforts are being made towards scratch cooking in correctional facilities?
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The NYC Department of Corrections provides meals for court appearances and is working towards scratch cooking, with training for cooks to begin in April.
- Meals for court appearances include sandwiches, fruits, and carry meals, supplied based on a daily count.
- The department collaborates with the mayor's office of food policy on scratch-based cooking.
- A grant of $100,000 was awarded to retrain cooks in using more fresh fruits and vegetables and to prepare meatless meals.
- Training for cooks on scratch-based cooking, focusing on healthier meal options, is scheduled to start in April.
Gale A. Brewer
3:21:26
Do you do anything that's cooked there?
3:21:28
Or is it at rikers, or is it all brought in?
3:21:30
That's my question.
James Saunders
3:21:32
Hi.
3:21:34
Thank you for that question, Joe Saunders.
3:21:36
So I want to address your first question, which is about food, and the courts.
3:21:41
And so the nutritional services division gets account on a daily basis of the number of individuals who need to present to court.
3:21:48
And they supply the courts with that with meals, carry meals, sandwiches, fruits, etcetera.
3:21:56
With respect to scratch cooking, I can tell you that we are currently working very closely with the mayor's office of food policy.
3:22:03
To address your your concern about scratch based cooking.
3:22:08
I don't know if you know, but the city was recently awarded a grant about a $100,000 to retrain the cooks who who are employed by DOC.
3:22:21
That training is going to focus on scratch based cooking using more fresh fruits and vegetables and daily meals.
3:22:28
And preparing teaching them how to prepare a meatless meal.
Gale A. Brewer
3:22:36
I like meatless meal.
3:22:37
Okay.
James Saunders
3:22:38
So we're we're trying to wrap
Gale A. Brewer
3:22:39
the mayor.
James Saunders
3:22:40
We wanna make sure that we combine nutritional services along with health services because you really can't separate those 2.
3:22:49
You know, you you are what you eat.
3:22:50
So we wanna make sure that we treat the entire person while they are in our custody.
Gale A. Brewer
3:22:54
I just hope the meatless tastes good.
3:22:56
That's what I worry about.
James Saunders
3:22:57
We will invite you out for a taste testing after that training.
Jumaane Williams
3:23:00
Oh, that's alright.
Gale A. Brewer
3:23:01
That's alright.
3:23:01
I've I've now I've had food and bikers.
3:23:03
It's alright.
3:23:04
It's not great.
3:23:05
That's the problem.
3:23:05
It's How do you do what people want to eat?
3:23:08
But until you're working at when will that program start?
3:23:10
Do you think the one you just discussed?
James Saunders
3:23:12
So the training I believe going to start this April.
3:23:16
I can confirm that and send you the schedule of training and the the implementation.
3:23:22
Working with a a community based organization called hotbread kitchen.