Zisboombah.com Launches Kids Cook-off With Chef Hosea Rosenberg And Chef Chris Blackwood

Online, August 30, 2010 (Newswire.com) - On September 4th, 2010, ZisBoomBah.com kicks off its inaugural Pick Chow! Across America© event with an "Iron Chef" style cook-off between prominent Boulder chefs Hosea Rosenberg (StrEat-Chefs) and Chris Blackwood (The West End Tavern). Each chef will create a healthy meal that has to please the taste buds of the toughest culinary judges in town: kids. A featured highlight on Kid's Day of the festival will start at 2 pm. The event will be video taped as a feature show on ZisboomBah.com.

Pick Chow! Across America consists of a kids cook-off and the Healthy Meal Challenge. In a task no less daunting than what the professional chefs face on stage, participating families have to cook one meal each week together that their kids create using the website's free online tool Pick Chow! Each Sunday, the families submit photos, videos and a story documenting their Pick Chow! adventure. The Healthy Meal Challenge begins September 7.

Here is how it works:
• Each week, kids log on to ZisBoomBah.com and create at least one meal per week with the website's free online tool Pick Chow!
• Their family then has to cook the meal as a family, write a story about it and submit it each Sunday with a photo.
• Contestants can sign up at the Hometown Fair or at ZisBoomBah.com.
• What's in it for participating families? Support from ZisBoomBah's own food and health experts and free stuff from sponsors. Families who finish the challenge receive a grand finale gift.
"The beginning of the new school year is the perfect time to inspire the community to make healthy food fun!" says ZisBoomBah founder, Karen Laszlo about Pick Chow! Across America.

About ZisBoomBah
ZisBoomBah is an innovative website that challenges conventional wisdom and develops tools to empower children and inspire parents to live a fun, active and healthy life. ZisBoomBah's free online tool "Pick Chow!" allows children to create meals by dragging and dropping foods onto their virtual plate. The "Add it Up!" meters show the nutritional values in a fun and easy way and rates each meal with one to five stars - a feature that helps children learn quickly how their choices make a difference in creating a well-balanced meal. Children can send their "chow" to their parents, who then receive an email with what their child has chosen to be a healthy choice for breakfast, lunch and dinner, along with the menu, recipe, shopping list and coupons.
Behind ZisBoomBah is a panel of health, nutrition and food experts and a team of experienced entrepreneurs who strive to ensure that the site's content is sound and the recipes are as delicious for kids as they are nutritious. Learn more at http://www.zisboombah.com

About Chef Hosea Rosenberg-StrEat Chefs
Hosea won Season Five TOP CHEF: New York in 2009. Since his big win he has been traveling the globe to expand his culinary knowledge and learn from some of the best chefs in the country. He appears once a month at Jax Fish House in Boulder, CO to cook themed dinners based on his travels. His newest venture, StrEat Chefs will be serving, fresh, fast and delicious food that can be eaten on the go right out of a smokin' mobile airstream. The menu is inspired by street food found across the globe, from alleyways in Bangkok to sand pits on the beaches of Mexico.
For more information, visit www.chefhosea.com.

About Chef Chris Blackwood - The West End Tavern
Born and raised in upstate New York, Chris Blackwood started refining his culinary skills at an early age. After graduating from the St. Augustine Culinary Institute in Florida, he tore through the restaurant community of Gulf Shores, Alabama, eventually landing a job under the tutelage of Creole cuisine master Chef Gerhard Brill at the Perdido Beach Resort. A few years later, he landed at Jax Fish House Boulder, creating exciting and innovative food for nearly seven years. As chef/partner of The West End Tavern, Chris has created bold new tavern food flavors that are quickly becoming the locals' favorites.

For more information, visit http://www.thewestendtavern.com.

About The Growe Foundation
The Growe Foundation has sprouted out of the Our Love of Children Foundation, founded in 1999 by Bryce Winton Brown to promote the health and wellbeing of children and families. The foundation's Garden to Table program provides Boulder Valley schools with resources and support to build vegetable gardens and create hands-on learning experiences for students with growing, preparing and eating healthy food.
For more information, please visit http://www.growefoundation.org.

About Boulder Creek Hometown Fair
The mission of Boulder Creek Events is to produce successful, family-oriented events that strengthen, empower, and inspire community members, local businesses and philanthropic organizations to get involved, connect and thrive.
For more information, please visit www.bceproductions.com.

ZisBoomBah Media Contact:
Brandon Saranik
[email protected]

1-805-341-3404