Local Students Create Interfaith Cookbook at Rollins

May 29, 2007
Twenty local middle school students recently gathered at Rollins to put together interfaith cookbooks. The event was coordinated by the Rollins Department of Education and the Olive Tree Foundation for Peace. Students in attendance came from the Muslim Academy of Orlando, the Hebrew Day School and Orangewood Christian School. With the help of Rollins students, they worked on a cookbook that will be published at a later date.

The cookbook is part of a project that involved students from each school submitting family recipes and stories about them. They were recently judged as part of the Olive Trees for Peace Writing Contest. Winning authors and their teachers will fly to New York this summer to take part in a faith camp.

“This is a very special cookbook, and these are very special students,” said Lucy Roberts, project coordinator. “The students hope their book demonstrates peace through understanding.”

Olive Trees for Peace was created to promote peace and interfaith understanding.