Friday, July 4, 2008

Bonnell’s restaurant joins Cuisine for Healing

By Pegasus News wire

FORT WORTH — Cuisine for Healing, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing easy access to healthy, healing food for those with a life-threatening illness, is excited to announce that the award-winning Bonnell's Fine Texas Cuisine restaurant in Fort Worth has partnered with Cuisine for Healing to label a dozen or more menu items with the Cuisine for Healing logo. The Cuisine for Healing (CFH) logo signifies a food item is hormone- and antibiotic-free, low in sugar (using only acceptable forms), organic when possible, and contains no trans fats, high fructose corn syrup or preservatives.

"When someone is fighting a life-threatening disease, nutrition is vital to their survival and quality of life," said Wendy Wilkie, founder of Cuisine for Healing and a stage-four breast cancer survivor. "Their tastes change, their appetites and energy are greatly diminished, and they are too tired to shop and prepare their own food. Ready-made food needs to be available to meet these needs, and we are thrilled that Bonnell's has joined our cause."

Rated by Zagat's as one of the Very Best Places to Dine in Fort Worth and chosen by Gourmet magazine as one of America's Best Farm-to-Table Restaurants, Bonnell's is a staple in Fort Worth culture. Critically-acclaimed nationally, Chef Jon Bonnell has been honored by The Texas Restaurant Association and Wine Spectator, and has been featured on ABC's Nightline and on The Food Network.

"Our whole concept is based on the freshest, farm-to-table ingredients," said Jon Bonnell, owner and executive chef at Bonnell's Fine Texas Cuisine. "This is a natural fit for us, and I'm so glad we can be part of Cuisine for Healing."

Cuisine for Healing was founded in 2006 by Wendy Wilkie, a stage-four breast cancer survivor in Fort Worth. First diagnosed in 1999, Wendy was just 42-years-old, a mother of two young children and determined to beat the disease that the doctors claimed would take her life in two years. Reading everything she could find about beating cancer, Wilkie found research documenting nutrition's impact on the terminal illness. However, grocery shopping became a difficult task because of the time and energy spent scanning labels and finding barely any foods that were free of harmful preservatives, hormones and antibiotics. That's when the idea for Cuisine for Healing was born.

Cuisine for Healing's mission is to partner with food manufacturers, grocery stores, restaurants and other retail establishments to place the CFH logo on items, making healthy, healing foods readily available and easy to identify.

Source: Cuisine for Healing

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