Tilden students and their culinary instructors pose earlier this month on the steps of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., where their award-winning healthy school lunch was served to ask Congress for more money for better school food. From left: Henry Walton Jr., David “Chef D” Blackmon, manager of culinary education, Chicago Public Schools; Daniel Leszczewicz, Tilden culinary instructor, Jakaia Franklin, Keith Morris, Tilden culinary instructor, Lashonda Livingston, Aljibri Reed and Cari Smith.






