A Letter from Rachael: Let’s Get America’s Kids Eating Healthy

In an open letter featured in the September issue of her magazine, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Rach underscored how we all have a responsibility for the health of America’s kids, both at school and at home…

Eat Well to Be Well: Rachael’s Op-Ed Published in Newspapers Nationwide

Speaking out on behalf of children across America, Rachael’s recent Op-Ed submission makes the case for funding child nutrition programs and has inspired readers nationwide to take action for child nutrition…

Take Action: Child Nutrition and Better School Food

Rachael is taking a stand for child nutrition. Learn how you can join her in ensuring access to nutritious food for your kids and for all children across the country!

Cooking as a Way of Life: Chefs Move to Schools

America’s chefs are stepping up to be a part of the solution to address the childhood obesity epidemic within a generation. To lend her support, Rachael joined the First Lady and hundreds of chefs on the South Lawn of the White House to launch the Chefs Move to Schools initiative, part of the First Lady’s Let’s Move! campaign…

Rachael Ray and Members of Congress Speak About Importance of Bipartisan Legislation to Improve Child Nutrition

(Washington, DC) — Daytime talk show host and author Rachael Ray joined a bipartisan group of Members of Congress to speak about the importance of the new Improving Nutrition for America’s Children Act of 2010. The legislation, which reauthorizes the Child Nutrition Act, will dramatically improve the quality of meals children eat both in and out of school and in child care settings, support community efforts to reduce childhood hunger and, for the first time, establish nutrition standards for all foods sold in schools. Nationally, one-third of children are either overweight or at risk of becoming overweight.

New York City Mayor Bloomberg and Rachael Ray Announce New Programs to Promote Healthy Eating

(New York, NY) — On May 13, 2010, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Rachael Ray announced a series of initiatives to help New York City’s youth eat healthier and understand where their food comes from. The new programs, supported by Rachael Ray and her Yum-o! organization, will help schools build a garden or connect them to an existing garden and provide cooking and nutrition instruction to young New Yorkers…

Yum-o! Scholarships

Rachael Ray and the Yum-o! team recently visited Frankford High School in Philadelphia, PA to meet with Wilma Stephenson and her hardworking culinary students in Room 325. Surprising 10 students with culinary scholarships was not the only surprise Rachael had in store. Check out these video clips from the Rachael Ray show to learn more!

Yum-o! Scholarships: Spotlight on Aria Anastasio

A core part of Yum-o!’s mission is helping kids reach their food-related career goals by funding culinary school scholarships. Applications for the 2010 scholarships will be due this spring, so be on the lookout for more information!

For some inspiration, we checked in with Aria Anastasio, a 2008 scholarship recipient who attended the French Culinary Institute (FCI). After working at Marisol at the Cliffs in Pismo Beach, CA upon graduation, Aria currently works at the Cass House in Cayucos, CA while setting her sights on her ultimate dream of opening two cake shops, one on each coast!

Yum-o!’s Director Featured in Culinary Types: Teaching Kids to Appreciate Food

Writer T.W. Barritt recently featured Yum-o!’s Director, Andrew Kaplan, in his Culinary Types blog, which chronicles his day-to-day encounters with all things edible and the extraordinary people who grow, prepare, study, celebrate and eat food. In Barritt’s interview with Andrew, he captures the inspiration and vision for Yum-o! and his commitment to the heart of Yum-o!’s mission: getting kids involved in the kitchen…

Yum-o!’s “If You Can…We Can!” Food Drive Makes More than 160,000 Meals

For the second year in a row, Yum-o! enlisted the help of the Rachael Ray studio audience to support one of our core work areas: feeding hungry kids and raising awareness about the issue of hunger in America.

Rachael Ray, Yum-o! and NYC SchoolFood Promote Healthy Food Choices to New York City Students

(New York, NY) — In an effort to highlight the continuous strides that the NYC Department of Education’s Office of SchoolFood is making towards promoting healthy food choices to New York City students and to encourage students and their families to develop healthy relationships with food and cooking, daytime host and best-selling author Rachael Ray, the Office of SchoolFood and the Yum-o! organization, Rachael Ray’s nonprofit organization, have partnered to create an exciting, delicious and nutritious lunch menu to be served in more than 1,600 New York City public schools, across all five boroughs. On October 26, 2009, Ray was joined at the announcement of the partnership at PS89/IS289 in Manhattan by Deputy Mayor Dennis M. Walcott, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, Deputy Chancellor Kathleen Grimm, State Senator Daniel L. Squadron, Chief Executive for SchoolFood Eric Goldstein, Chef Jorge Collazo and Principals Veronica Najjar of PS 89 and Ellen Foote of IS 289.

Rachael Ray Celebrates Sesame Street’s 40th Anniversary with a
Family-Friendly Recipe in
C is for Cooking

Rachael is helping to celebrate Sesame Street’s 40th Anniversary by contributing to the newly released special edition cookbook, C is for Cooking.

Let’s Get Cooking…with David Fishman: Camp Food

In this edition of Let’s Get Cooking…, David Fishman, Middle School Food Critic, dishes about this summer’s camp food.

Rachael Ray Featured in Actions Speak Loudest: Keeping Our Promise for a Better World

Rachael has shared her passion for teaching kids and families about food and cooking as a contributor to the newly released book, Actions Speak Loudest: Keeping Our Promise for a Better World.

Announcing the 2009 Yum-o! Organization Scholarship Winners

(Chicago, IL) — In partnership with the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF), Rachael Ray’s Yum-o! organization is pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 Yum-o! Organization Scholarship. Yum-o! has awarded ten $2,500 scholarships to graduating high school seniors who have enrolled in a post-secondary foodservice program to support their dreams of pursuing a career in the foodservice industry.