This year’s challenge is to design and cook a meal using the minimum number of food miles.

Once again the organisers of British Food Fortnight have teamed up with Kenwood to find the schools that incorporate cookery within their curriculum activities in the most imaginative and innovative way.

Prizes will be awarded to the best six schools in each region (Scotland, North West, North East, Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, East of England, South West, South East, Wales and N. Ireland) and will include a Multi-pro food processor, handheld electric mixers, tea-towels and aprons. The national winner will also receive a Kenwood Prospero with mincing and juicing attachments to help your pupils create even greater culinary masterpieces.

The closing date is Friday 17 October 2008. Winners will be announced in November 2008.

To download further details click here.

To download an entry form click here.

To download the online cross-curricular resource for primary school teachers that Kenwood has developed, please follow this link.

Winners of our 2007 ‘Cook for Life’ Challenge sponsored by Kenwood

Congratulations to Greencroft Community School, Stanley, Co. Durham – the national winners of the 2007 British Food Fortnight ‘Cook for Life’ Challenge sponsored by Kenwood.

During British Food Fortnight 2007…

• the school invited the local Women's Institute to help them teach pupils how to cook.
• they linked the session to curriculum teaching in an interesting way by preparing dishes that would have been cooked years ago with dishes that are typical of today thus providing a historical comparison and encouraging children to think about food past and present.
• there was a very strong emphasis on sourcing British with pupils shopping for ingredients and buying local wherever possible. As part of this they visited local allotments to teach children about reducing carbon footprints.
• they ate all the food together as a group together with the WI members with the specific aim of encouraging social interaction between generations.
• the teacher put a strong emphasis on 'fun' which is so important when teaching children how to cook.

66 schools provided with Kenwood cooking equipment

Hundreds of schools – Primary, Secondary and Special Needs schools - invited chefs into the classroom to give cooking lessons, visited farms and allotments and toured local butchers, fishmongers and greengrocers as they took up the challenge to include food and cookery within their curriculum teaching during the Fortnight. Irish, Scottish and even some overseas schools participated for the first time.

A total of 66 schools in the UK are being rewarded for their efforts with class sets of Kenwood bakeware, smoothie makers, aprons and scales so that they are fully equipped to teach pupils how to cook long term. The national winner - Greencroft Community School, Stanley, Co. Durham - also received a top-of-the-range Kenwood chef.