Saint Louis Public Schools

Recently, budding chefs from Clyde C. Miller Career Academy and Beaumont Career and Technical High School competed in the Healthy Schools Campaign’s Cooking up Change National Healthy Cooking Contest.

Hosted by Chartwells-Thompson Hospitality, the Cooking up Change National Healthy Cooking Contest challenges teams of high school students to create a healthy and great-tasting school meal that meets high nutrition standards, draws from ingredients commonly available to food service, and can be easily prepared in a school kitchen. 

Moreover, the Cooking up Change National Healthy Cooking Contest engages students and the broader community in a dialogue about changing the future of school food so that all children have access to lunches as nutritious and appealing as those created in the contest.

Proudly, Aretha Brown, Clarece Mathews and William Viney from Beaumont Career and Technical High School won for their healthful, flavorful and kid-friendly menu of barbecue baked chicken, sautéed broccoli and carrots and poached pears, and  will advance to a final round to prepare their recipes before a prestigious panel of judges in Washington D.C.