The Boys and Girls Club of the Golden Triangle hosts youth cooking demonstration to help fight childhood hunger
Fifty children started tearing up during a special program at the Boys and Girls Club Thursday, but the adults in the room urged them not to worry — crying while chopping onions is a common occurrence.
Cooking for TV: Starkville teen’s cooking show premieres on MPB May 5
Mark Coblentz spent this past Monday afternoon like a lot of high school guys — at spring football practice. Like plenty of boys, he likes to hunt and hang out with friends. But how many 15-year-olds have their own cooking show on television? Mark does.
Starkville teen’s run on ‘MasterChef Junior’ comes to an end
Beef Wellington is a dish Mark Coblentz will remember for a long time to come
Kid Power II: Young Starkville cook competes on ‘MasterChef Junior’
And then there were 16. After auditioning with hundreds of other aspiring young cooks for the television series “MasterChef Junior,” Mark Coblentz of Starkville has baked, broiled and sauteed his way into the show’s top 16 junior home chefs from across the country.
Kid power: This preteen discovered cooking is cool — so is being on national TV
It’s a late Monday afternoon, and Mark Coblentz is hungry. Sporting his lucky cap, the seventh-grader moves between refrigerator and kitchen cabinet with the sliding glide preteens tend to perfect.