Chantal to Participate in the Alice Waters and Chez Panisse Edible Schoolyard Community Program

    HOUSTON, TX, May 23, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Chantal, the high-end cookware company with products made for healthy and environmentally-friendly cooking, announced today that they are donating kitchen products to the Alice Waters and Chez Panisse Foundation's Edible Schoolyard program opening in Greensboro, North Carolina.

The first Edible Schoolyard was founded in 1995 in a vacant lot near the Martin Luther King Middle School in Berkeley, Calfornia. Initially, it was maintained by once-monthly student participation. Since then, it has flourished into a garden filled with fresh vegetables, fruits and flowers and now boasts highly active student participation.

Selected as the first children's museum in the country to have an officially licensed Edible Schoolyard, the Greensboro Children's Museum's grand opening is on May 22, 2010. The Greensboro Edible Schoolyard is a teaching garden and kitchen where children and their families can learn how to grow healthy food and create delicious snacks and meals using fresh, local and organic ingredients. The garden is carefully planned to grow a wide variety of seasonal produce that shifts and changes from season to season, as seeds are sown, plants are grown, crops are harvested and fresh food is prepared for the table.

"The Edible Schoolyard is an innovative community program that all of us at Chantal can both and identify with and get our arms around," said Chantal CEO and founder, Heida Thurlow. "We are delighted to support the Edible Schoolyard kitchen which is teaching our children how to cook for themselves and live healthier lives."

The Martin Luther King Middle School garden in Berkeley, California serves as a model for other Edible Schoolyards that are being established in locations including New Orleans and Brooklyn, and has more generally inspired garden programs at other schools across the country. The Edible Schoolyard at the Greensboro Children's Museum is expected to serve as a national model for other museums and children's institutions nationwide promoting health and wellness in young children and families.

About Chantal
Houston-based Chantal Cookware Corporation was founded in 1979 by Heida Thurlow who has received numerous design and utility patents from around the world for teakettle, bakeware and cookware design and innovation. Chantal was the first to bring dramatic color, tempered glass lids, stay-cool handles, and cookware for cooking, serving and storing, to the marketplace. When not focused on product innovation, Chantal continually strives to find ways to give back. They utilize their resources for things like shipments to orphans and widows in Afghanistan, raising funds for the homeless, lobbying for bankruptcy reform, the environment, and occasionally taking in a stray dog or ensuring the retention pond makes a good home for new ducklings.

For more information, visit www.Chantal.com.

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