{"id":2921,"date":"2013-07-05T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T02:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:38:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:38:41","slug":"masterchef-judges-offer-patients-a-fresh-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/masterchef-judges-offer-patients-a-fresh-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"Masterchef judges offer patients a fresh outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2922\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2922\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2013\/07\/MasterChef-for-internet.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2922\" alt=\"Masterchef judges George Calombaris and Gary Mehigan sharing their skills with patients. \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2013\/07\/MasterChef-for-internet.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2922\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MasterChef judges George Calombaris and Gary Mehigan\u00a0planting seeds\u00a0with patients.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MasterChef judges\u00a0took a break from their television duties when\u00a0they visited The\u00a0RCH to teach patients about the importance of using fresh produce.<\/p>\n<p>George Calombaris and Gary Mehigan\u00a0showed their support for RCH Education Institute project &#8216;The Children&#8217;s Harvest&#8217; by demonstrating to patients how to harvest their own fruit, vegetables and herbs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Theres only one type of food you should eat and it should be whole, it should be fresh and it should be real,\u201d says Calombaris.<\/p>\n<p>The chef&#8217;s visit was made more special when MasterChef generously donated the proceeds from a recent cooking challenge to support the harvest project.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0project allows students to engage in the investigation of real-life problems such as how to design, build and maintain a garden filled with seasonal produce.<\/p>\n<p>RCH teacher, Emma Fraser, said The Children&#8217;s Harvest was a excellent inititiative.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are the sorts of things the kids have been doing in their schools and it\u2019s nice that we can bring them from their school here to the hospital so they don\u2019t miss out,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MasterChef judges George Calombaris and Gary Mehigan show RCH patients how food gets from garden to plate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2927,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions\/2927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}