CHEFS IN SCHOOLS
Unique in the country, the Recipe for Success Foundation's (RfS) Chefs in Schools™ program organizes the professional culinary community to mentor young children, empowering them to create healthy, yet tasty snacks and meals for themselves. Over 45 of Houston's finest professional chefs volunteer their time to join RFS staff chefs in 4th grade classrooms and after-school to deliver hands-on cooking experiences.
Using specially designed portable cooking carts, chefs lead 4th graders through monthly explorations of flavor. They begin with how taste buds work together and then over the course of the year, move through the entire food pyramid with easy to execute recipes. Fresh produce from the schools' Recipe Gardens™ is regularly featured to exemplify our Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ concept. RFS-devised worksheets feature nutrition, healthy food, and cooking methods integrated into math, science, reading, writing and social studies projects.
Members of our Chefs Advisory Board and RfS staff chefs also bring their fresh eyes to help create healthy and delicious menus for school lunch programs; give RFS-designed cooking classes to parents in schools and community centers; and host field trips to their restaurant kitchens, favorite farms, farmers' markets and grocery stores. During its first three years, the RfS Chefs in Schools™ program led over 1,600 Houston ISD 4th grade students through 9-months of classes, establishing in the children a lifelong enthusiasm for the consumption of healthy foods, fresh fruits and vegetables.
Unique in the country, the Recipe for Success Foundation's (RfS) Chefs in Schools™ program organizes the professional culinary community to mentor young children, empowering them to create healthy, yet tasty snacks and meals for themselves. Over 45 of Houston's finest professional chefs volunteer their time to join RFS staff chefs in 4th grade classrooms and after-school to deliver hands-on cooking experiences.
Using specially designed portable cooking carts, chefs lead 4th graders through monthly explorations of flavor. They begin with how taste buds work together and then over the course of the year, move through the entire food pyramid with easy to execute recipes. Fresh produce from the schools' Recipe Gardens™ is regularly featured to exemplify our Seed-to-Plate Nutrition Education™ concept. RFS-devised worksheets feature nutrition, healthy food, and cooking methods integrated into math, science, reading, writing and social studies projects.
Members of our Chefs Advisory Board and RfS staff chefs also bring their fresh eyes to help create healthy and delicious menus for school lunch programs; give RFS-designed cooking classes to parents in schools and community centers; and host field trips to their restaurant kitchens, favorite farms, farmers' markets and grocery stores. During its first three years, the RfS Chefs in Schools™ program led over 1,600 Houston ISD 4th grade students through 9-months of classes, establishing in the children a lifelong enthusiasm for the consumption of healthy foods, fresh fruits and vegetables.
