So, here’s some provocative reading we can discuss over salad at our Food Day virtual progressive dinner party. Alice Waters was once mocked for suggesting that it might cost $5 a meal to serve our kids “real food” in schools. But in an article published today, school food activist Dana Woldow explains why it might cost even [...]
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Last year I told you about Nourish: Food + Community, an exciting initiative that uses DVDs and a classroom curriculum to increase students’ food literacy, providing them with a “big picture” view of our food system and how food connects to the environment, health and communities. Well, a few weeks ago, I was contacted by [...]
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As fans of Chef Ann Cooper (aka The Renegade Lunch Lady) know, five years ago, Alice Waters’s Chez Panisse Foundation set out to overhaul the food served in the Berkeley Unified School District. Chef Ann was hired to supervise the project (and has since left to make the same improvements in Boulder, CO.) The [...]
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When I first started researching school lunch in earnest, I had the pleasure of stumbling across The Slow Cook, a blog written by former Washington Post writer, now personal chef and urban farmer, Ed Bruske. The Slow Cook is broad in scope, covering everything from the local food movement, sustainability, and even, in Ed’s own words, [...]
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Let’s move away from the birthday cupcake debate (for now, anyway) and back to the issue of school food. Imagine that you’ve been crowned Food Services Director for a huge urban school district (say, Houston) and can change the menus any way you like. But like any good Food Services Director, you do need to keep [...]
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