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by Mackensy Lunsford Earlier this year, Michele Obama presented her “Chefs Move to Schools� program, a branch of her “Let’s Move!� campaign. The effort aims to teach younger school-age kids the benefits of real, unprocessed healthy food. To achieve this goal, chefs are recruited as resources to provide a handson learning experience for the students. Why make teachers prattle on about vitamins and minerals in health class when they can team up with food professionals to actually show kids how real food is grown and cooked — and how good it can taste? Laurey Masterton, proprietor of Laurey’s Catering and Gourmet-to-Go, is the chief local motivator behind the project, in conjunction with the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project.
Area chefs have offered their support in the form of know-how and roll-up-your-sleeves involvement. ASAP is currently working with 37 chefs and volunteers, to pair them with 20 schools. Dan Rattigan of the French Broad Chocolate Lounge, for example, taught local students how to make soup, right in the middle of a garden. Elizabeth and Katie Button, part of the team opening the tapas restaurant, CuratÊ, will be working directly with Claxton Elementary 5th graders next year. Brian Sonoskus of Tupelo Honey plans to bring produce grown at the restaurant’s garden to local elementary schools. It’s hard not to get starry-eyed when faced with such an idea. It’s easy to fawn over reports of children snacking on snap peas right from the
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