A Chopped kid chef and entrepreneur is on a mission to bring healthy food options and easy-to-cook scrumptious recipes to a busy and heavily-scheduled generation of teens. Remmi Smith, a sixteen-year-old chef who hosts two cooking shows and serves as a national Student Ambassador for a leading food services company, has written a cookbook encouraging teens to take up healthy cooking as a new pastime. Chef Remmi Smith's creation is not your typical teen's cookbook: It's written 'for teens by a teen,' explains the author, and is filled with tried-and-true recipes with budding cooks in mind, using limited ingredients and steps. Through the colorful, easy-to-read book, Remmi sets out to inspire teens to adopt healthy eating habits by introducing them to the glorious pastime of cooking. The book takes the reader on a culinary journey across the seven continents, highlighting a country and its top food items in each one. Each section features geographic descriptions, a full menu (from appetizer to dessert), fun facts, brain teasers, personal tips, and delicious photos of the recipes-making it a geography lesson, a cookbook, and a social studies class all in one. Remmi's recipes include a lot of vegetables and she uses fruits to add natural sweetness while going light on spices to make the dishes more appealing to children and teens. 'I want to inspire teens to get in the kitchen and have some fun, cook healthy and enjoy life and the love of food,' Remmi says. 'You can explore the world through food. Writing this book was a really big adventure for me and I hope it will be an adventure for everyone else.'

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