Announcing the 2014 Yum-o! Scholarship Winners

The FUND component of Yum-o!’s mission helps kids reach their food-related career goals by funding culinary school scholarships. In partnership with the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF), Yum-o! is pleased to announce 2014’s ten scholarship winners, who will each receive $2,500 scholarships to pursue their culinary education, along with an additional winner of a special $15,000 scholarship.

2014 Yum-o! Scholarships

The FUND component of Yum-o!’s mission helps kids reach their food-related career goals by funding culinary school scholarships. In partnership with the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF), Yum-o! is pleased to announce that Yum-o! scholarships will be available in 2014.

Rachael Celebrates Let’s Move’s 4th Anniversary with First Lady; Shares Proposed Updates to Nutrition Facts Labels

Rachael joined First Lady Michelle Obama and White House Chef Sam Kass in the White House kitchen to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the Let’s Move! campaign, following the First Lady’s announcement of proposed updates to the Nutrition Facts label found on more than 700,000 food products…

Announcing the 2013 Yum-o! Scholarship Winners

The FUND component of Yum-o!’s mission helps kids reach their food-related career goals by funding culinary school scholarships. Yum-o! is pleased to announce this year’s ten scholarship winners, who will each receive $2,500 scholarships to pursue their culinary education.

The Story of 16 Million Hungry Kids, as Told By One

(Washington, DC) — One in five children in the U.S. struggles with hunger. To illustrate the problem of childhood hunger beyond the staggering statistics, Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry® campaign today premiered "The Story of Hungry," a short, animated film depicting the destructive forces of hunger, on the Rachael Ray show. Told through the eyes of a young girl, the film demonstrates the fear and pain hunger causes – and how something as simple rethinking how school meals are served can change a child’s day, week and even his or her future.

Lunch Box 101

Heads up, kids! With school in full swing, it’s extra important to pack nutritious and delicious lunches that will keep you going all day long. So with that in mind, we’re starting to add lunch box tips and all new recipes from our friend J.M. Hirsch to the Yum-o! website! As food editor for The Associated Press, dad and author of the new book, Beating the Lunch Box Blues, J.M Hirsch knows what it takes to pack a terrific lunch. Check out his first recipe on the Yum-o! website, Pizza Sushi, and don’t miss more lunch box faves from Rach, along with more lunch box basics (coming soon!).

(Photo credit: Matthew Mead)

Feeding America Receives $160,000 Donation from Rachael Ray’s Yum-o! Organization to Support National Produce and Backpack Programs

(Chicago, IL) — Feeding America, the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief organization, today announced that television personality and bestselling author, Rachael Ray, has donated $160,000 to support the National Produce Program and the BackPack Program through her Yum-o! organization, which is a long-standing supporter of Feeding America and hunger-relief.

A Message From Rachael Ray

GROWING UP IN THE KITCHEN I was in the kitchen at an early age cooking alongside my mother. In fact, I was in the kitchen watching my mother and learning about food even before I picked up a spoon! She’d have me on her hip while she stirred a pot on the stove and carried […]

Announcing the 2012 Yum-o! Scholarship Winners!

The FUND component of Yum-o!’s mission helps kids reach their food-related career goals by funding culinary school scholarships. Yum-o! is pleased to announce this year’s 14 scholarship winners, who will each receive $2,500 scholarships to pursue their culinary education.

Winning Meal Announced for Rachael Ray’s Yum-o! Healthy School Meal Contest

(New York, NY) — We have a winner! In celebration of October’s National School Lunch Week, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation (Alliance), the School Nutrition Association (SNA) and the Yum-o! organization have announced Donnie Barclift from Oakland Unified School District as the winner of Rachael Ray’s Yum-o! Healthy School Meal Contest with his recipe for Pozole con Pescado…

Go ORANGE for Hunger this September!

Feeding America and Share Our Strength have joined forces to promote September’s Hunger Action Month and No Kid Hungry Month, along with Go ORANGE Day. This September 6, join Rachael Ray and Yum-o! and Go ORANGE to help your friends and neighbors in need…