Explore recipe collections and cookbooks designed for preparing local food in school settings, culinary training videos, and guides for developing your menu. 

Culinary Skill and Recipe Demonstration Videos

Culinary skill and recipe demonstration videos by a professional chef from Brigaid, designed to help you implement more scratch & speed scratch cooking in your school kitchens. Developed in partnership with NY State Department of Agriculture and Markets, Cornell Cooperative Extension, and Brigaid.

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NY School Food Cookbook

A collection of recipes that follow the NSLP Meal Pattern & emphasize local ingredients. Developed in partnership between NY Agriculture & Markets, Brigaid, and Cornell Cooperative Extension Harvest NY, and tested by SFAs.

Cooking with Local Fish Video

Learn to cook the plentiful whiting fish with CCE Marine Program's Stefanie Sacks. Whiting is one of the top fish in NYS commercial markets, especially in the winter.

Institute of Child Nutrition

Child nutrition program resources including culinary training videos and recipes.

New School Cuisine

A cookbook for school cooks, by school cooks that includes 78 kid-tested and approved recipes. The recipes meet the USDA dietary guidelines and feature local, seasonal foods.

The Culinary Institute of Child Nutrition

A division of the Institute of Child Nutrition that provides culinary training programs and resources for preparing and serving healthy, school meals from scratch.

The Lunch Box Training Videos

Videos on school food and scratch cooking, culinary techniques, knife skills, and food safety.

Local Food Buyer Toolkit: Menu Planning

Developed by Farm to Institution NYS, this toolkit will help you build a Farm to School menu from the ground up, from assessing your existing menu, to training food service workers in preparing new recipes.

Food and Health Network Farm to School Recipes

Farm to School recipes developed by Food and Health Network of South Central NY, in collaboration with Broome-Tioga BOCES Rock on Cafe, student taste testers, Farm to School Americorp Members, farmers, FHN Farm to School Coordinator, and more, scaled for trying at home!

NY Beef Council School Foodservice Resources

A suite of resources from recipes to training videos to cut sheets that can help you incorporate local beef into your meal program in new ways.