Three Queen Creek High School students are getting ready to take part in the “Feeding the Future” competition, a culinary contest that challenges students to create nutritious meals that meet the real-world requirements of the national school lunch program.
Mentoring the students is chef Charleen Badman, who owns the FnB Restaurant in Scottsdale. With more than 30 years of experience in the culinary industry, she remembers coming up the ranks starting in high school.
“I was in a program in high school,” Badman stated in a press release, “and I fell in love with cooking.”
