WSNA Conference Digizine™

Chef Samantha

Education Session

Core...and More! Minimize Ingredients and Maximize the Menu Education Session

Cowens-Gasbarro

POS/Meal Service Models with Section on BAB – OSPI

Efficiently managing your inventory while offering a creative, appealing menu with options students will love can be a challenge. This virtual training will help you examine your inventory and how you can maximize your menu by making each inventory item work harder. We will explore how you can use your USDA Foods in multiple menu items. Chef Samantha Gasbarro, SNS, will show this concept with demonstrating how to multitask inventory items with 3 recipes.

Debra Calhoun

Mikhail Cherniske

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Chef Samantha Cowens-Gasbarro, SNS Chef Samantha, is a Johnson & Wales University graduate with a degree in Culinary Nutrition. She worked in restaurants, as a personal chef for professional athletes and taught at a cooking school for kids and adults before she found her passion in school nutrition. She spent 5½ years as the Chef and Nutrition Coordinator at Windham Raymond Schools where she created new and healthy recipes, trained staff and taught kids the importance of healthy eating all while increasing participation for that district. In addition to training the staff in her district, she has trained staff across the country in culinary skills and ways to increase participation. She has also spent time developing recipes for K-12. She serves as an active member of the Culinary Institute of America’s Healthy Kids Collaborative. She believes that through school meals, nutrition education and exposure to new and healthy foods we can truly create a generation of healthy eaters and change the food culture in our country.

Debra Calhoun, School Meals Program Specialist Debbie has been with the OSPI team for 20 years as a Program Specialist. Prior to joining OSPI, she spent 13 years in the food servicMount Vernon school districts; as a Manager at the University of California, Davis and at San Francisco State University; and also as a dietary manager in healthcare. debra.calhoun@k12.wa.us | 509-323-2751 | www.k12.wa.us/policy-funding/child-nutrition

Mikhail Cherniske, Legislative Program Specialist mikhail.cherniske@k12.wa.us | 360-999-0968 | www.k12.wa.us/policy-funding/child-nutrition

UN-BRIDLED BRILLIANCE | 12 | JULY 27-28, 2021

UN-BRIDLED BRILLIANCE | 13 | JULY 27-28, 2021