Top hat chefs are featured White House guests in Michelle Obama’s new calorie-cutting campaign

Chefs sign on for Michelle’s anti-obsesity kick

WASHINGTON — Scores of chefs are joining Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity campaign and lending their expertise to local schools.

Mrs. Obama is hosting celebrity chefs Rachael Ray, Tom Colicchio, Cat Cora and others at the White House to tout the program, in which individual chefs adopt schools and work with teachers, parents and school officials to help educate kids about food and nutrition.

Several of the chefs — way more than a baker’s dozen — will pick vegetables from Mrs. Obama’s kitchen garden with local school children and cook on the South Lawn Friday. Other famous participants include Daniel Boulud, Jose Andres and Marcus Samuelsson. He helped prepare the Obamas’ first state dinner in November in honor of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.