Cooking Crew Academy and Rebel Ventures teach kids how to run a kitchen - and a business

At Cooking Crew Academy, headquartered at Benjamin B. Comegys Elementary School in West Philadelphia, every meal the students serve begins with ceremonially trashing a traditional school lunch. Into the garbage goes the frozen pizza and french fries, and out from the kitchen comes food that could easily be on the menu of any farm-to-table restaurant in town: yellow squash and bulgur salad, collard green hummus and soba noodles with eggplant and mango, purple cabbage clementine slaw.

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