I know I’m not supposed to be blogging daily anymore (to preserve my health and sanity), but it just doesn’t feel right not to share with you some of the many interesting articles and links that come across my screen at a rapid clip each day. Lately, though, I’ve been playing catch-up on life – [...]
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Last week I released on YouTube a rhyming children’s video, “Mr. Zee’s Apple Factory,” which I wrote and illustrated to help teach young kids to think more critically about processed food and Big Food’s advertising. (More on what motivated me to do so here.) When you’re one person going up against Big Food’s almost $2 [...]
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You guys, I feel like I’m walking on air today . . . On a personal level, today marks my 15th year of wedded bliss with Mr. TLT – now also known to the world as the evil “Mr. Zee!” It also happens to be the birthday of one of my food heroes, Janet Poppendieck, [...]
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In March, 2011 I was honored to be chosen as one of the winners of a Slate magazine anti-childhood-obesity crowd-sourcing contest. My submission, entitled “Legislate, Educate and Inoculate to Create Food-Savvy Kids,” argued that we need to fight the problem on three fronts: legislation to curb the food industry’s rampant advertising to children; widespread nutrition [...]
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Back in July, 2011 I told you about Kids Live Well, a program created by the National Restaurant Association to improve the often-dismal offerings on most chain restaurant children’s menus. But in late March of this year, the Center for Science in the Public Interest issued a damning report which found that 97% of the restaurant [...]
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It’s one of those weeks when the school food news is coming in so fast, I can’t keep up! Here’s a quick round-up of articles of interest: A Fourth-Grader Goes Undercover in the Cafeteria – Are His Findings Accurate? Many of you have already seen on TLT’s Facebook page today’s New York Times blog account of a [...]
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