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West Virginia Health Right Community Engagement Manager Shayla Leftridge, left, and Latasha Jones-Isabell, the wellness center's assistant, demonstrate a healthy "Bayou Chicken Power Bowl" with fresh, healthy ingredients, as Gov. Patrick Morrisey and Health Right CEO Angie Settle look on. Maria Young/West Virginia Public Broadcasting
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West Virginia Health Right unveiled its new Mobile Teaching Kitchen Monday – with the help of Gov. Patrick Morrisey and his flourishing garden.
Brightly colored orange, yellow and green vegetables – most picked fresh from the mansion garden just an hour or two before the ribbon cutting ceremony – sizzled on a grill as West Virginia Health Right CEO Angie Settle showed off the nonprofit health clinic’s shiny new addition.
Many of the vegetables used for Monday’s cooking demonstration were picked from the garden at the governor’s mansion just an hour or two before they hit the grill. Maria Young/West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Settle said the fully equipped mobile kitchen was made possible by funding approved through the governor and legislature.
The unit is fully equipped to bring healthy cooking demos and promote preventive health screenings to communities across West Virginia.
“We’re going to meet people in a community at church events, fairs, festivals, and show them yes, this is how you do it. This is how you can make great tasting food that, yes, it’s natural and it’s going to nourish your body and make you healthy,” Settle said.
Morrisey said the new mobile kitchen fits in with his initiatives on making West Virginia Healthy Again.
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