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Beaumont High Senior Wins Best Teen Chef

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012

A one-day cooking lesson with a private chef half a lifetime ago ignited a passion in Ryan Mackey, of Beaumont, Calif. The high school senior kept at cooking and recently captured the title of Best Teen Chef at the Art Institute in San Bernardino’s annual competition. With the title comes a $4,000 scholarship to the school, which Ryan plans to attend this fall.

Ryan cooks in classes at Beaumont High School, where he recently won the Culinary Arts Award from the Riverside County district, and he works in the kitchen at Lil Russo’s restaurant in Beaumont.

Ryan Mackey and other culinary students at Beaumont High in Calif., recently got a visit from Chef Holli Ugalde from TV's "Hell's Kitchen." (Photo via BEAUMONT CITY WEB SITE)

Culinary students at Beaumont High in California recently got a visit from Chef Holli Ugalde of the television program "Hell's Kitchen." (Photo via BEAUMONT CITY)

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Ryan Mackey Wins San Bernardino Top Teen Chef

Beaumont High senior Ryan Mackey won Best Teen Chef in San Bernardino, Calif. (Photo by JULIE FARREN, Record Gazette)

Beaumont High senior Ryan Mackey won Best Teen Chef in San Bernardino, Calif., recently. (Photo by JULIE FARREN, Record Gazette)

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High Schools Provide Unique Food Education

Friday, May 4th, 2012

Throughout the country, high school teens are coming up with innovative ways to get their schools and classmates involved in, er, beefing up school food. Whether it’s planting school gardens, running in-school cafes or improving the fare on the lunch line, students are trying to find ways to incorporate sustainability, care for the planet and entrepreneurship into their classroom curriculum. The Daily Meal dishes on its findings.

Classroom Cafe is operated by high school seniors in the school district's administration building in West Allis, Wisc. (Photo by WEST ALIS-WEST MILWAUKEE SCHOOLS))

Classroom Cafe is operated by Wisconsin high school seniors in this school district administration building in West Allis, Wisc. (Photo by WEST ALIS-WEST MILWAUKEE SCHOOLS)

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Flynn McGarry, 13, Cooking at L.A.’s Playa

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

Getting through eighth grade is tough enough for many young teens but Flynn McGarry, 13, is balancing school work with his night jobs. Flynn, of California, works four times a week at local restaurants, apprentices under top-notch chefs and runs his own supper club, Eureka, out of his home. Each month, about 20 guests gather around the table in the McGarry home to sample a menu of progressive American cuisine featuring local ingredients with a generous dose of molecular gastronomy. Flynn creates the dishes in his bedroom-turned-kitchen.

Next week Flynn will be guest chef at the urban Latin hotspot Playa in Los Angeles. The week after that he’ll be staging with Chef Grant Achatz. Not much is on the menu for June, though. It’s eighth-grade graduation, after all.