When was the last time you sat down and really enjoyed a meal? One that you made, not one you picked up at the drive through or ate at your desk as you quickly rushed between classes or work? If you can't remember a time you had a good conversation over a healthy meal, you might want to consider joining the Slow Food Movement at HS2.

 

The culinary club, headed by Mr. Horn, promotes good, clean and fair food within the Reynoldsburg community. The Fair aspect touches on promoting local businesses, so Mr. Horn invited Chef Micah from Due Amici to do a demonstration where the club made a caprese salad, including making the mozzerella and the balsamic vinegar.

 
"My goal with this demo is not only to promote local but also introduce students to traditional cooking techniques," said Mr. Horn.  "What better way than classic Italian cuisine?"  

 

Chef Micah explained that being a master chef involves knowing everything about cooking from understanding spices to deboning a chicken to learning about every culture and their cuisine. That equates to long hours in the kitchen- often 13-14 hour days. What makes the long days worth it? "When someone tells me that what I prepared for them is good," he said.

 

The Slow Food Movement is part of a larger, overall initiative at our STEM schools. RCS has a garden at Herbert Mills Elementary School, a SOIL Lab at STEM Middle at Baldwin Road Junior High School and the Slow Food Movement is a club where students meet once a week and HS2 administrators and teachers hope to build an elective course from the club.