Tilden Students to Bring Cooking up Change Lunch to Congress

Student chefs present their award-winning jalapeno cornbread on Jan. 29, the day their meal was served in Chicago high schools

The student chefs of Tilden Career Community Academy High School will bring the healthy, great-tasting school lunch they designed – which won first place at HSC’s Cooking up Change healthy cooking contest – to Congress on March 2.

The students will showcase their meal at a Capitol Hill briefing on the future of school food where HSC’s founding executive director Rochelle Davis will moderate a panel of speakers including:

• Christie Vilsack, National honorary co-chair of Cooking up Change and wife of Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack
• Karen Duncan, National honorary co-chair of Cooking up Change and wife of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
• Tilden High School culinary student from the Cooking up Change winning team

The tasty lunch of chicken-vegetable jambalaya with jalapeno cornbread and cucumber salad will be served that day at the Longworth cafeteria in the House of Representatives office building. The healthy student-designed lunch is part of HSC's advocacy for a strong reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act.

Look out next week for more details about how you can take action for school food on March 2!

Plus: Check out a video of the Tilden team's winning moment!