The UNCLE BEN'S® Brand Awards Local Wichita Fourth Grader With $30,000 Cafeteria Makeover And $15,000 Cash Prize For Cooking Up Inspiration In The Community
Area Public Officials, Community Leaders and More than 600 Clark Davidson Elementary School Students Come Together to Celebrate Ariel Pinkston as One of Five Grand Prize Winners
WICHITA, Kan., Dec. 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The UNCLE BEN'S® Brand, the number-one selling brand of rice in the United States, named Ariel Pinkston of Wichita, Kansas one of five grand prize winners of the Ben's Beginners™ Cooking Contest. The nationwide contest encourages children to make healthier meal choices by getting them interested in cooking at an early age. The Ben's Beginners™ initiative is designed to empower parents to connect with their children one meal at a time and bring families closer together.
"It is very important to get kids in the kitchen at a young age and educate them on nutrition and how fun cooking healthy meals with their families can be," said Lara McCauley, Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Mars Food North America, the parent company of the UNCLE BEN'S® Brand. "Through our Ben's Beginners™ movement we are excited to know that we helped bring families together in the kitchen as well as at the dinner table."
Ariel was one of 25 finalists selected from hundreds of entrants in grades Kindergarten through eighth. Entrants submitted videos of themselves and their families preparing a rice-based dish and discussing their experience cooking together as part of the third annual cooking contest. Ariel was selected as one of five grand prize winners and awarded with a $30,000 school cafeteria makeover, a $15,000 cash prize and a hometown celebration at Ariel with New York-based celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson.
"We're thrilled to have been selected," said Naomi Pinkston, Ariel's mom, "Ariel has been cooking and helping out in the kitchen since she was just 2 years old. Sunflower Sushi is special to our family because it's a dish we created together. The contest has been such a great experience and it's been amazing to see our community rally around our family."
For more information on the contest, kid-friendly cooking tips and the winning recipes, visit www.unclebens.com.
About the UNCLE BEN'S® Brand
The UNCLE BEN'S® Brand, the number one rice brand in America, is proud to offer a wide range of rice dishes with flavors and textures that will help bring more to your meals, both for savory main courses and convenient side dishes. The UNCLE BEN'S® Brand offers a wide variety of white, whole grain brown, and flavored rices in cook times ranging from 30 minutes to 90 seconds, as well as rice for food service operations such as restaurants, schools and hospitals. The first mass-produced parboiled rice, UNCLE BEN'S® Brand is the top-selling branded rice in the United States and products can be found in more than 100 countries worldwide. The UNCLE BEN'S® Brand products are manufactured by Mars Food North America, part of Mars, Incorporated. For more information, visit www.unclebens.com.
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