by Bettina Elias Siegel on November 3, 2011
[Ed Note: The following post appears on my Houston ISD school food blog, The Spork Report and is also posted at the Houston Chronicle's Chron.com.] When I was once asked by Slow Food USA to explain why I started my daily blog about kids and food, The Lunch Tray, I realized that a packet of [...]
by Bettina Elias Siegel on August 31, 2010
[Ed Note: There may be a local ordinance here in Houston, of which I and the district were unaware when I wrote this post back in August, that prevents donation of previously-served food. I'm looking into this and will report back.] My fellow HISD/Aramark Food Services Parent Advisory Committee member, Lisa Murry, writes a great [...]
by Bettina Elias Siegel on August 19, 2010
Yesterday HISD Food Services sent me another, minor correction to my initial post about forthcoming changes in Houston’s school food. Lunch Tray readers come from all over the U.S. (and the world), so I don’t want to get too deep into a Houston-specific issue, but then I realized that this correction could be a springboard [...]