HUNTINGTON -- The goodwill from "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution" continues to roll in from across the country; this time, with a $25,000 grant from Share Our Strength, a national organization committed to ending childhood hunger in America.

The money from the Washington, D.C.-based group will fund "Operation Frontline" classes, which are designed to teach healthy cooking and offer nutrition tips and grocery budgeting advice to low-income families, at Huntington's Kitchen, 911 3rd Ave. The six-week program kicks off next week with the first round of classes.

"This is a really cool program that focuses on a population that needs to be reached," said kitchen manager Jill Moore. Moore attended training for the Operation Frontline courses at a partner program in New Hampshire last week. "It does a lot with budgetary guidelines and helping families get the most nutrition for the money.

"I think this is really going to be so much fun and extremely beneficial."

The two-hour classes will kick off with a nutrition segment and then participants will team up to work through several recipes with a qualified chef. Each week, participants are given a bag of groceries corresponding to one of the recipes to take home and try with their families. Other activities could include a tour of a grocery store and tips for shopping.

"I would say our current classes are more skill-based," Moore said. "These will be much more information-based, but they're going to learn really good skills as well."

Because the classes are targeted at low-income families, the kitchen will work exclusively with agencies in town who have already screened participants for income eligibility. Moore said she will send fliers to the names that agencies, such as Ebenezer Medical Outreach, WIC and Weed and Seed, provide to her.

"Right now, we're going to focus on adults, but we hope to expand to incorporate the children's classes as well," Moore said.

The partnership was born out of producers on Oliver's ABC show making contact with Janet McLaughlin, director of Operation Frontline.

"We've worked with ABC before and some of the producers contacted us about working with the kitchen in Huntington," said McLaughlin, adding that Operation Frontline has been partnering with local non-profit organizations for the past 16 years. "We're able to offer the Operation Frontline curriculum, training and technical assistance, and because we do have funding through ConAgra, we were able to offer that to Huntington as well."

Operation Frontline, McLaughlin said, is currently operating in 26 markets across the country.

"We want to empower people to put healthy meals on the table for their families every night," she said. "Families know healthy eating is important, but sometimes it doesn't seem manageable. Our courses are designed to be a positive, hands-on, empowering experience."

McLaughlin said her organization moved more quickly to partner with Huntington's Kitchen than might ordinarily be the case.

"Our partnerships generally are long-term. Almost all of our program partners start with the intention of continuing the programming forward," she said. "We'll test it out through the end of the year and see if we've found a good match, and I think we have."

Huntington's Kitchen is seeking qualified volunteer nutrition educators and chefs for the Operation Frontline program. To volunteer, call 304-522-0887.

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