Skuna Bay Salmon announced it will join the Taste of the NFL at the 23rd Annual Super Bowl “Party with a Purpose,” hunger relief event held at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal on 1 February.
Held on the eve of the Super Bowl, the event was founded by Minneapolis restaurateur Wayne Kostroski in 1992 when Minnesota hosted Super Bowl XXVI.
Each year 100 percent of the net proceeds from Taste of the NFL’s are donated to food banks in all 31 NFL cities with the largest portion going to local food charities in the Super Bowl city. This year’s recipients include the Food Bank for New York City, Community Food Bank of New Jersey, City Harvest and Brooklyn’s Bes-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger. The balance of the proceeds will be donated to the designated food bank in each of the other NFL cities, as well as hunger relief organizations across the country.
In addition to a donation to the Taste of NFL’s food charities, Skuna Bay will be providing the salmon for dishes served by many of the performing chefs including Atlanta Falcon’s Kevin Rathburn, Arizona Cardinal’s Eddie Matney and the NFC Champion Seattle Seahawks’ John Howie.
“Skuna Bay’s passion for raising quality salmon and the care for the environment matches perfectly with Taste of the NFL’s mission, and our chef partners’ core business values. We are proud to have them as our newest partner and look forward to many years helping families together,” said Kostroski.
“Being invited to join the Taste of the NFL’s to ‘kick hunger in America’ is an honor that supports our values: of helping to feed the world while reducing pressure on wild fish stocks. We are proud to play a small in addressing hunger through a donation to this great organization and of course we are equally proud that some of America’s greatest chefs will be using our salmon at the even to further this mission,” said Dave Mergle, Skuna Bay director.
