Baltimore International College School of Culinary Arts Students Help Prepare Thanksgiving “Dinner” for Kennedy Krieger School Students

BALTIMORE – November 22, 2010 – Baltimore International College (BIC) and Coastal Sunbelt Produce are teaming up to provide a Thanksgiving meal for students and staff of the Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Lower/Middle School on Tuesday, November 23, 2010. The special lunch will consist of turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, and green beans.

Chef Ben Simpkins from Richardson Farms is donating the turkeys and Coastal Sunbelt Produce is donating the potatoes and green beans for the lunch. BIC students will prepare the meal at BIC’s state-of-art kitchen laboratories at the Culinary Arts Center located in Baltimore’s Little Italy.

The Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Lower/Middle School provides special education and related services to students in grades K through 8 with a variety of disabilities and challenges, including autism, emotional disturbance, intellectual disability, and traumatic brain injury.

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About Coastal Sunbelt Produce

Coastal Sunbelt Produce is the leading produce and dairy distributor in the Mid-Atlantic; serving restaurants, schools, hotels and many other partners from New York to North Carolina. Coastal Sunbelt has been operating since 1991, located conveniently in the middle of the Baltimore/Washington corridor in Savage, Md.

About Baltimore International College

Founded in 1972, Baltimore International College (BIC) is an independent, not-for-profit, four-year college that offers certificates, associate, baccalaureate, and master’s degrees in culinary arts and hospitality business and management. The college’s campus is located in Baltimore, Md., just two blocks from the Inner Harbor; and an international campus is located in Virginia, County Cavan, Ireland. For more information on BIC, visit http://www.bic.edu.

About Kennedy Krieger Institute

Internationally recognized for improving the lives of children and adolescents with disorders and injuries of the brain and spinal cord, the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, MD serves more than 16,000 individuals each year through inpatient and outpatient clinics, home and community services and school-based programs. Kennedy Krieger provides a wide range of services for children with developmental concerns mild to severe, and is home to a team of investigators who are contributing to the understanding of how disorders develop while pioneering new interventions and earlier diagnosis. For more information on Kennedy Krieger Institute, visit www.kennedykrieger.org.

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