With the first day of school set for Wednesday, Chipman Junior High\u2019s kitchen staff spent Tuesday preparing meals and getting ready to serve students.<\/p>\n
The menu includes fried spicy chicken breasts, baked potatoes, ribs and salads.<\/p>\n
Lesley Sierra, a nutrition services trainer for the Bakersfield City School District, said she knows Chipman well.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, originally I was a student here for Chipman Junior High when I moved to Bakersfield,\u201d Sierra said. \u201cI started working for the school district 13 years ago when I started as a regular six-hour employee and then I started just moving up and applying for positions and learning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sierra also has a son who attends Chipman Junior High.<\/p>\n
Along with food preparation, Sierra highlighted Chipman\u2019s annual junior chef competition, scheduled for Dec. 16.<\/p>\n
\u201cStudents from all grade groups from K all the way through eighth grade submit the recipes,\u201d she said. \u201cWe choose a few recipes and then the student creates the recipes and then the winning recipe gets put on the menu.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chipman\u2019s kitchen also plans special meals for holidays, including Thanksgiving. \u201cWe do our famous cream turkey with mashed potatoes,\u201d Sierra said. \u201cDuring the cold time. We usually do pozole.\u201d<\/p>\n
Across the Bakersfield City School District, kitchen staffs serve thousands of students at the district\u2019s 44 schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the first day of school set for Wednesday, Chipman Junior High\u2019s kitchen staff spent Tuesday preparing meals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-430126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}