AN innovative project to encourage youngsters to cook and eat more healthily ended last month with a special presentation. Environmental charity Westden celebrated the end of the teenage cookery workshops project at Food Dreckly's café at Tavistock Livestock Market. Food Ambassadors worked with young people across West Devon and the Tamar Valley, and in total reached in excess of 500 local people through workshops, talks and demonstrations. The workshop participants and guests, including Masterchef Peter Gorton of the Horn of Plenty were presented with certificates by Westden's director Anna Kennedy. During the project, young people prepared, cooked and created recipes with the help of local chefs and food experts. The project produced a cookery survival guide including recipes from everyone involved and some devised during the Ready Steady Cook sessions. This will be available on the Westden website. Westden set out to encourage young people to cook and eat more healthily using locally produced food and to support local producers and cut food miles. The funders who also attended the event were the Tamar Valley AONB, Dartmoor SDF and the Local Network Fund.