Chef Timothy Cipriano
Executive Director of Food Services
New Haven, CT Public Schools
Chef Tim is Executive Director of Food Services for the New Haven, CT Public Schools. One of Tim’s most valuable achievements to date has been introducing more local produce into the school lunch program (Over 150,000 pounds of CT Grown in 2010!) and working to educate New Haven’s urban students about fresh, healthy and great tasting food choices. NHPS has 46 schools with roughly 20,000 students with a free and reduced percentage of 80%.
Chef Tim has over 20 years of culinary experience having worked in school food service for the last 6 years and at several restaurants in the Northeast.
Chef Tim has received local & national recognition for integrating lessons about food into school curriculum and for getting students to ask for locally grown, fresh foods; this effort led for him to receive the moniker, Local Food Dude, from a fellow Chef. Follow him on twitter @LocalFoodDude.
Chef Tim volunteers countless hours to supporting programs tied to ending childhood hunger and increasing access to nutritious foods. Chef has been co-chair of Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation New Haven for the last three years and has orchestrated tremendous growth in that event. Because of Chef Tim’s commitment to hunger advocacy he was named Advocate of the Year by Share Our Strength in October of 2010.
Posts By Chef Timothy Cipriano on Strength.org
- We Need YOU to Nominate a Hunger Warrior [ No comments]
- August 8, 2011
If you’re reading this blog, on this website, I have to assume you’re one of us: a compassionate and perceptive citizen concerned enough about our nation’s education, health, security, and economy, that you have committed yourself—in some way—to joining Share Our Strength and its many supporters in the movement to end childhood hunger in America. We’re an especially enlightened bunch, if you ask me.
Tags: awards, conference of leaders - No Kid Hungry Campaign Comes to Connecticut! [ No comments]
- March 23, 2011
The state of Connecticut, also known as the “Constitution State,” has a rich U.S. history. From its role in founding the U.S. federal government to its charming New England landscapes to its premier restaurant industry (if I do say so myself), what we don’t want written in history books about us is that Connecticut is also home to more than 127,000 children at risk of hunger.
Tags: afterschool programs, chefs, No Kid Hungry, state partnerships, summer meals, Taste of the Nation - Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Takes YALE by storm! [ 1 comment]
- May 27, 2010
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs stormed into Yale Commons at Woolsey Hall on Wednesday, May 19, for Taste of the Nation New Haven! Giant replicas of the book's pages lined the walls; cardboard mobiles with clouds, meatballs, and Yale umbrellas hung from the rafters. It truly was raining meatballs!
Tags: childhood hunger, event, No Kid Hungry, Taste of the Nation
