Six Shelby County Schools’ high schools will compete in the Memphis-area 2014 Cooking up Change challenge. Cooking up Change is a national culinary competition launched by Healthy Schools Campaign. The competition challenges high school culinary students to create menu items that are a healthy great-tasting school meal that meets high nutrition standards, incorporates a local food item, draws from ingredients commonly available to food service, and can be easily prepared in a school kitchen.

The local Cooking up Change competition will take place on Friday, May 2 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the L’Ecole Culinaire Culinary School, 1245 N. Germantown Pkwy, Cordova, TN.

The first place team from the May 2nd competition will take its winning meal to compete against nine other teams from across the country in the national finals in Washington, D.C. this June. While in D.C. they will present their meal at a Congressional briefing, meet their legislators to discuss the importance of healthful school food, and see their meal served in the U.S. House of Representatives cafeteria. 

The following high schools will represent Shelby County Schools in the Cooking up Change challenge:

Craigmont High School

Hamilton High School

Memphis Health Careers Academy

Northside High School

Sheffield Career & Technology Center

Trezevant Career & Technology Center

For more information on Cooking up Change, visit www.healthyschoolscampaign.org/programs/cooking-up-change/