FOOD and FINANCE HIGH SCHOOL

I love schools that nurture young people and connect to their passions and I love food and foodies and food bloggers...and I love the man (Richard Murphy) who founded Rheedlen Foundation(later Harlem Childrens Zone) and who invented Beacon Schools and youthline and youth mapping and who is on the board of this school on west 50st. Lunch was a tasting preview for Food Channel sponsor and press in anticipation of a fund raiser at the Food Channel. New York Magazine and NY Daily News writers and a wonderful artist inspired by children and recently featured in an episode of Housewives on Bravo , were all present
to taste the fennel salad, the squid salad, and the oven roasted squash and the talappia{a farm in the basement raises thousands}. This school grows plants in a hydroponic hot house...i think ..on the roof ..I think. But what i know is this is a well equipped and well staffed enterprise infusing skill and pride into fine students. What I tasted could have come from any good restaurant.I missed dessert but I will find an excuse to go back. Top Chefs, Anthony Bourdain, watch your rears there is a pack of fierce culinary future professionals coming up fast behind you.

Board member Richard Murphy handles napkin
and chats with Cornel University  Prof and 2 students describe the talapia