Liz Neumark

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Liz Neumark
Born1956 (age 6667)
Alma mater Barnard College
Occupation(s)chef, entrepreneur

Liz Neumark (born in New York City) is an American chef and entrepreneur.

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Neumark is a member of the New York State Food Policy Council and the founder of The Sylvia Center, a non-profit organization that inspires healthy eating for children through cooking workshops and visits to the farm, and the New York catering company Great Performances. [1]

Life and career

Neumark graduated from Barnard College in 1977. In 1979, she created Great Performances Caterers, a waitress service for women in the arts. The company is based in Hudson Square, New York City, and is today[ when? ] the largest off-premises catering company in New York City. It is the exclusive caterer for notable artistic institutions including Jazz at Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Apollo Theater, Brooklyn Museum, Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts and Wave Hill. In keeping with its appreciation of the arts, Great Performances created the Scholarship Awards Program which supports its event staff members who are pursuing careers as artists with $5,000 awards to help them complete a project that will further artistic aspirations. [2]

Neumark joint-ventured with Delaware North Companies to manage and operate the Plaza Hotel.[ citation needed ]

In 2006, Neumark created Katchkie Farm, [3] an organic farm on 60 acres (240,000 m2) of never-before-farmed land in Columbia County. Katchkie Farm is the site of The Sylvia Center, an organization founded by Neumark, which school groups from throughout New York visit to plant in the Children's Garden and learn about eating healthy foods. [4]

Neumark is a blogger on food politics for the Huffington Post . [5]

Recognition

She is a recipient of the Food Arts Silver Spoon Award [6] and was named one of the 100 Most Influential Women in NYC Business by Crain's New York. [7] In 2012, she was presented with the Barnard's Woman of Achievement Award. [8]

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