Cooking Teens to Feature Hottest Farm-to-School Efforts

Fairfield, CT, May 17, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Wondering what’s “Taking Root” in the Farm-to-Cafeteria scene? The daily Web magazine Cooking Teens (http://www.cookingteens.com/) will tell you.

Reporters from Cooking Teens – the nation’s only daily magazine dedicated to teens and their families who love to cook and eat – will fan out at the fifth annual Taking Root conference in Detroit beginning today, sending real-time dispatches to teen foodies and their families. On the menu, everything from close-up views of urban gardens, to lesson plans for changing school food, to marketing healthy food to kids and more.

Cooking Teens will feature the teen-chef winners of “Cooking Up Change,” a national competition challenging high-schoolers to create a healthy and tasty school lunch with a twist: Teen teams had to pair typical food-service ingredients with a local product and had to limit their from-scratch lunch recipes to six steps. Winners will be decided in a culinary show-down today and their lunch will be served to attendees on Tuesday.

Also on the menu in Cooking Teens’ coverage (available free at http://www.cookingteens.com/ and on Facebook.com/CookingTeens ), the latest from USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan, lessons in buying locally and sustainably, school gardens 101, and dishing on healthy-cooking contests for high-schoolers. The national Farm to School network hosts the conference.

Cooking Teens features daily (Monday through Friday) food news, videos, recipes, pictures and tips for teenagers and their families. The magazine encourages teens to cook and eat healthy, interesting and family-friendly meals and snacks made from scratch, whether in school or at home. Cooking Teens celebrates family mealtime, teen chefs, and sustainable, healthful and responsible cooking, farming and eating. And lots of food fun! The magazine is the sister site of the TV series Now You're Cookiin!, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5dB442T5mc, in development.

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