{"id":28070,"date":"2014-06-12T10:17:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T14:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=28070"},"modified":"2014-06-12T10:17:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T14:17:25","slug":"harlem-students-teen-battle-chef-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=28070","title":{"rendered":"Harlem Students in Teen Battle Chef Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Harlem Students Face Off in Teen Battle Chef Competition<\/p>\n

Twelve Harlem students who have mastered an eight-week culinary program will put their cooking skills to the test when they face off in Teen Battle Chef Live.<\/p>\n

Teen Battle Chef Live is the culmination of an intensive program aimed at preventing obesity and diabetes. Students from Democracy Prep, a Harlem charter school, and The Harlem Dream Center, an afterschool program, will show off the techniques they learned that are needed to prepare delicious and nutritious food through healthy cooking. Two teams of students will complete a designated recipe that reflects the healthy, multi-ethnic meals and sophisticated culinary techniques they learned during the program.<\/p>\n

New York City First Lady Chirlane McCray will deliver opening remarks, with Chef Alexander Smalls, Food Network personality Ellie Krieger and Izabela Wojcik, Director of House Programming of the James Beard Foundation serving as judges.<\/span><\/p>\n

The event is sponsored by EmblemHealth and the Metro-Manhattan Chapter of the Links, Inc. The event is open to the public and free to attend.<\/span><\/p>\n

WHEN<\/strong>:\u00a0 Thursday, June 12, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n

6 p.m. | Reception<\/p>\n

7 – 8 p.m. | Competition<\/p>\n

WHERE<\/strong>: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture<\/a><\/p>\n

Langston Hughes Auditorium<\/p>\n

515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY<\/a><\/p>\n

(NW corner of West 135th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

About The Metro-Manhattan Chapter, of the Links, Inc.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Metro-Manhattan Chapter of The Links, Incorporated<\/a> established in the Harlem community in 1988, is a proud addition to a National organization established in 1946.\u00a0 The Chapter\u2019s express mission is to serve the Greater Harlem community.\u00a0 The chapter\u2019s hard work has established a reputation at the local and national level for effective programming through its signature Young Achiever\u2019s program and other equally impactful initiatives that have impacted Harlem institutions such as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Harlem Hospital, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Thurgood Marshall Academy, and countless men, women and children in Harlem and around the world.<\/p>\n

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