Health Care Culinary Contest
2023 Winner
The grand prize winner of the 2023 Health Care Culinary Contest was
Mayo Clinic’s three sisters blue zone tacos.
Chef Michael Millben from Mayo Clinic in Florida brought healing and health together, combining the blue zone diet – a whole food, plant-based approach to meals – with the Indigenous agricultural practice of planting corn, beans, and squash together known as the three sisters.
The winners’ accomplishment was celebrated at CleanMed 2024 in Salt Lake City, where the chef received a plaque and the winning meal was served to participants. They will also be honored at the Culinary Institute of America’s Menus of Change Leadership Summit.
And a round of applause for our finalists:
- Overlook Medical Center’s Sicilian butternut squash and sweet pea arancini
- Parkview Regional Medical Center’s beet tataki
- Providence St. Joseph Hospital Orange’s pho-bowl-ous jackfruit
- Scripps Health’s Asian tofu lettuce wraps
Read about the chefs and their stories.
About the contest
Every year Health care culinary professionals across the country take their menus to new levels in creativity and flavor, all powered by plants.
Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth team up with Menus of Change, an initiative of The Culinary Institute of America, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the College of Food Innovation & Technology at Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island to host our Health Care Culinary Contest.
Why participate?
Elevate your hard work and creativity while spotlighting your hospital’s plant-forward commitment to a national audience.
Get inspiration from winner Chef Joseph Moreno from Stanford Health Care, and find out which contest winner went on to serve plant-based eats at the White House.
Why plant-forward?
Hear first-hand why your fellow chefs and food service pros are embracing the Plant-Forward Future...
Check out our Plant-Forward Future resources that help health care facilities set a plant-forward goal, menu and market plant-forward dishes, and track progress.
