The Kids Food Festival partners with Cooking Light to educate families about making balanced food choices.

NEW YORK, July 12, 2012—

The Kids Food Festival™, a premier family-oriented food event, and Cooking Light, the nation’s leading epicurean magazine brand, announced today a partnership to educate families about making balanced food choices through an expanded event series.  The new series, The Kids Food Festival™, in partnership with Cooking Light will offer family-friendly cooking classes, food demonstrations, food sampling, and entertainment to help create wholesome lifelong eating habits for both kids and parents.   

“We are so excited to be working with Cooking Light to expand the footprint and offerings of The Kids Food  Festival™ this fall in New York City and beyond,” says Cricket Azima, The Kids Food Festival™ Founder. “The mission of both organizations are so closely aligned that it made sense to join forces to educate families about making balanced food choices."

Cricket Azima,  Founder

“At Cooking Light we understand the importance of instilling healthy eating habits at a young age and we’re always striving to deliver creative recipes to our consumers who want to feed their families healthy, delicious meals every day,” says Karla Partilla, Cooking Light Publisher. “Partnering with The Kids Food Festival™ allows us bring to life our philosophy of healthy, delicious food through hands-on classes, sampling, and activities the whole family will enjoy.”


The Kids Food Festival™, in partnership with Cooking Light is proud to continue working with the James Beard Foundation, which helps to develop and execute many of the chef led hands-on kids cooking classes throughout the festival.

Chef Jehangir Mehta, Mehtaphor

The Kids Food Festival™, in  partnership with Cooking Light gets cookin’ in New York City on November 3 and 4 and will expand to Washington, D.C. in April 2013.

A portion of the ticketed class proceeds from The Kids Food Festival™, in partnership with Cooking Light will benefit FoodCorps (www.foodcorps.org), the event’s featured charity.    

Balanced Plate Scavenger Hunt

For more information about The Kids Food Festival™, in partnership with Cooking Light go to: www.kidsfoodfestival.com and check the event out on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/KidsFoodFestival.  For the latest information about the event follow us on Twitter: @KidsFoodFestNYC.

For more information about sponsorship opportunities, please contact Founder Cricket Azima at cricket@kidsfoodfestival.com.

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About Kids Food Festival
The Kids Food Festival™, a premier family-oriented food event, is presented by The Creative Kitchen™, LLC, a company that teaches children about food and how to cook in a fun, safe, and educational manner.  Targeting families with children ages two and older, the company focuses on teaching, writing creative content and curriculum, special events, recipe development, spokesperson work, webisode production and consulting to present educational content through food-related activities. The founder, Cricket Azima, inspires children to express themselves creatively through cooking, social studies, arts and sciences.

About Cooking Light
At 25 years, Cooking Light is the nation’s leading epicurean magazine brand with the largest audience and most epicurean editorial.  Cooking Light is the only epicurean brand positioned at the intersection of great-tasting food and healthfulness, serving an important and growing consumer need.  The brand delivers innovative recipes, nutrition advice, and resources to live a healthful lifestyle via its magazine, Web site, and portfolio of cookbooks; across all tablets; through the highly-acclaimed Cooking Light Quick and Healthy Menu Maker app; and on social media platforms including, Facebook (Facebook.com/CookingLight), Twitter (@Cooking_Light), Pinterest (Pinterest.com/CookingLight) and Instagram.  Cooking Light is part of the Time Inc. Lifestyle Group, a division of Time Inc., the largest magazine media company in the U.S.

Media Contacts
Stephanie Hacker, The Kids Food Festival™, media@kidsfoodfestival.com, (716) 499-5638
Erin Clinton, Cooking Light, erin_clinton@timeinc.com, 212-522-2710


Photos courteous of: Ghazalle Badiozamani Photography

Eat Play Local Day... What fun!

Last week, Cricket Azima and The Creative Kitchen took part in Eat Play Local Day at the Children's Museum of Manhattan hosted by Edible Manhattan and we had a blast!  What's not to love about our Mixed-Up Sandwiches, milk and cookies from Organic Valley and Whole Foods' Get Your Greens On Smoothies?  Check out some of our favorite pictures from the event, it looks like you had a great time too!

The Creative Kitchen at Eat Play Local Day

The Creative Kitchen Team!

A rainbow of fresh veggies and Organic Valley American Singles

Vote for The Creative Kitchen! Mission: Small Business!

If you could change the lives of hundreds of children for the better in less than one minute, would you? Now is your chance!

By now you've probably heard about the Mission: Small Business $250,000 grant (unless you've been living under a rock!). And we're sure that everyone from your cousin's neighbor's hairdresser to your cousin's neighbor's hairdresser's dog has asked you to vote for them, but we're taking it one step further... We're begging you to vote for us! 

Why? It only takes a second to vote and your support will help us help not only the picky eater sitting across from you at your dinner table but also hundreds of other pint-sized future chefs! Do it for the children!

We need 250 votes by Saturday June 30th (yup, that's the end of this week!), so please visit missionsmallbusiness.com and follow the three easy steps below in support of The Creative Kitchen. It's as easy as, err, 1-2-3!


1. Go to missionsmallbusiness.com and click "Log In & Support"

2. Search "The Creative Kitchen"

3. Click on the blue Vote button to show your support! (and if you're feeling particularly supportive, share the link on your Facebook wall!)

www.missionsmallbusiness.com

Everybody Eats Lunch Giveaway!

Raise your hand if you love giveaways! We sure do! That's why we're giving away a super cool The Creative Kitchen gift package. 

One lucky winner will receive a signed copy of Cricket Azima's book Everybody Eats Lunch, an Everybody Eats Lunch thermal lunch bag and a chef hat and apron for you to decorate! 

It's easy to enter, just go to our Facebook page and follow the three simple steps below. A winner will be selected at random on Friday, June 29th!

To win: 

1.  "Like" The Creative Kitchen's Facebook page.

2.  Post your child's favorite recipe on the Everybody Eats Lunch photo posted on our wall.  You can also post a recipe that your grandchild or the child you babysit loves!

3. Share the photo with your Facebook friends.

Winner will receive: 

• A signed copy of Everybody Eats Lunch
• An Everybody Eats Lunch Thermal lunch bag
• Chef Hat to decorate
• Apron to decorate

And don't forget you can also purchase Everybody Eats Lunch on Amazon!  Click HERE to order! 

Fiesta Fun Day... Mucho Fun!

Fiesta Fun Day at Whole Foods Bowery Culinary Center! 

After last week's Fiesta Fun Day at Whole Foods Bowery Culinary Center, siestas were on the menu all around! Los niños agreed that there was nothing more fun than squishing avocados with their hands!

Kids went home with their own personal cookbooks, filled with fiesta-inspired recipes including The Creative Kitchen's signature Mango Salsa, Guacamole Party Dip and Mexican Cactus Salad. ¡Comamos! (Let's eat!)

There are lots of great things cooking in the Creative Kitchen so be sure to visit our Buzzworthy Events section of the blog for all the details! And don't forget to check back after each event for fun photos and recipes that you can prepare at home!

Kids went home with a recipe book filled with Fiesta-inspired recipes! 

Mexican Chocolate Milkshakes!  Made with Organic Valley Milk... Delicioso! 

Fiesta Fun Day! Ole!

Hola amigos and amigas! 

Join us this weekend for a Sunday summer cooking party and whip up some tasty Mexican treats using some of our favorite fruits and veggies! Just wait until you see how fun and easy it is to eat a whole rainbow's worth of colorful foods. You'll even get to bring home a healthy, homemade snack to share with your family!  On the Menu: "Guacamole in a Bag"; Mango & Black Bean Salsa; Homemade Tortilla Chips; Mexican Cactus Salad; Summertime Fish Tacos (Vegetarian Option Available); Mexican Chocolate Milkshake with Organic Valley Whole Milk ... Delicioso!

June 10, 2012 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Ages 2 to 13  •  60 min.  •  $30 

Whole Foods Market Bowery Culinary Center

95 East Houston St

New York NY, 10003

Ages 2 to 5 (+1 parent), 12-1pm

Ages 6 to 9 (Drop-Off Class), 2-3pm

Ages 10 to 13 (Drop-Off Class), 4-5pm

For additional information: 

Event details & Registration
info@thecreativekitchen.com

There are lots of great things cooking in the Creative Kitchen so be sure to visit our Buzzworthy Events section of the blog for all the details!  And don't forget to check back after each event for fun photos and recipes that you can prepare at home!