School's camp introduces cooking, food awareness

Chef Camp attracted about 36 Odessa youngsters in first through eighth grades this summer. The two-week session concludes this week. The class came about as a result of the nutrition and physical education grant obtained by the Odessa School District.

Instructor Merleen Smith taught the group about nutrition and cooking from scratch, assisted by recent Odessa High graduate Kimberly Nelson and by volunteer Kerry Scheller. Bev Scherr also spent time with the group working on reading and math skills using iPads.

Smith said she had the group mix up the dough for making "pfeffernuess" one day, with...