Students Compete To Cook Up Change

by Katherine Gustafson · 2010-02-08 16:25:00 UTC
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Who better to design a delicious and healthy school lunch than the people who have to eat it? High school and college students are invited to enter the Cooking up Change 2010 National Healthy Cooking Contest, hosted by the Healthy Schools Campaign and the National Farm to School Network.

Their challenge? To create a healthy lunch using only ingredients that are available to the workers in school food service. That sounds challenging enough, but add to that the requirements that the meal must use at least one locally grown food, meet stringent nutritional guidelines and taste good. Tall order!

Interested students should form three-person teams and submit recipes by 5 p.m. EST on March 26. Based on those entries, three teams from the high school division and three teams from the college division will be tapped to travel to Detroit this May to attend Taking Root, the National Farm to Cafeteria conference, to compete in the Cooking up Change finals. The final round will include an in-kitchen battle, where the teams compete to prepare their meals and serve them to a panel of judges.

It will be like Iron Chef: Healthy Lunch edition! Allez cuisine!

Photo: Academia IF via Flickr

Katherine Gustafson is a freelance writer and editor with a background in international nonprofit organizations.
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