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Cooking Up Change, a benefit to support the Healthy Schools Campaign, was held on Oct. 29 at Salvage One, Chicago. Eight hundred attendees raised over $100,000 for healthy foods in the Chicago Public Schools. Now in its 5th year, guests enjoyed conviviality, libations, a silent auction and the opportunity to taste food prepared by student chefs in the Chicago Public Schools Hospitality and Culinary Arts Program. Guests also had a chance to view a video of White House Chef Sam Kass offering words of encouragement to the students and speaking of the importance of healthy school food. Young chefs created healthy, great-tasting lunch recipes they hoped would win the honor of being served at high schools across the country. Nutrition experts Nutrition experts and mentors helped students craft school meals that met high standards for taste as well as health during the school year. The criteria include USDA guidelines for school meals plus standards for sodium and fiber at a food cost of only $1.30 per meal. The contest was judged immediately prior to the benefit by a panel of renowned chefs, corporate heads and local celebrities including city and government officials. Young chefs from Tilden Career Community High School were on the 2009 winning team with a menu of chicken jambalaya, jalapeño corn bread and cucumber salad. Like previous winners, this group has been invited to Washington, D.C. Cooking up Change benefit chairs were Kelly Dettmann and Nina Winston of Chicago. Suburban committee members included Beth Aldrich of Wilmette, William Anderson of Lake Forest and Marvin Klein of Lincolnwood. Special guests Chicago guests included Nora Daley Conroy and her sister, Lally Daley, Janet and Roger Owen, Meredith and Pat Wood-Prince and Michele and Peter Wilmott. Suburbanites were Lisa Koch, Alice Topping and Mary Ann Clements of Evanston and Margaret Tilson and Laura Slowey of Wilmette. Launched in 2002, Healthy Schools Campaign advocates for policies and practices that allow all students, teachers and staff to eat, learn and work in a healthy school environment. Rochelle Davis who resides in Evanston is the founding executive director of the organization. Call (312) 266-8729, (312) 419-1810 or visit www.healthyschoolscampaign.org. |
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