The Huffington Post reported yesterday that the story of Jamie Oliver’s fraught attempt to improve the school food in Los Angeles USD, documented on his Food Revolution show last summer, is going to be adapted into a feature-length movie. Ryan Seacrest (producer of the Food Revolution show) will be a co-producer of the film, [...]
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Well, that’s apparently true in Australia, anyway. But would the results of a food literacy survey here in the U.S. be any different? We’ve talked a lot on The Lunch Tray about the sharp decline in food knowledge and cooking skills in America, a country which ranks last among 20 surveyed nations in terms of time [...]
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I am SO pleased to announce that Jamie Oliver and his Food Revolution team have thrown their support behind our Change.org petition: Please go check out their new website, Stop Pink Slime.org– you’ll see a prominent link to the petition, information about Lean Beef Trimmings, plus endorsements from supporting organizations and individuals. THANK YOU, Food [...]
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The School Nutrition Association, the association of school food service workers, has proclaimed this week National School Lunch Week and tomorrow, October 12th, is “National Take Your Parents to Lunch Day.” On that day, parents are encouraged to to line up with a lunch tray, eat with your child, and talk to the people who [...]
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Blogger Alissa of The Simply Wholesome Kitchen (she of the excellent pumpkin muffins) last week posted on TLT’s Facebook page an article from the New York Times which she knew would be of interest to me. It describes how students at a high school in California are spurning the healthier offerings in their school cafeteria for [...]
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Here’s a potpourri of a few Jamie Oliver-related news items I wanted to share with you. First, earlier today Jamie Oliver spoke about the global obesity epidemic to the One Young World summit in Zurich, Switzerland — his first public speech since his acceptance of the TED Prize last year, according to his publicity team. [...]
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If you followed TLT’s “Food Revolution” Watch Party you know that Mentor L.A.’s Mike McGalliard, who had a big role on the show this season as the head of West Adams High, has been coming by the blog regularly to comment on my recaps and reviews. So in my discussion of the season finale I [...]
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I have to say I’m pretty happy that Jamie Oliver’s “Food Revolution” series concluded last week, not because I didn’t enjoy watching the show but because writing up my recap and review each week was a daunting (if entirely self-imposed) task. I certainly didn’t expect to be writing about J.O. again so soon, and [...]
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Last Friday’s episode was the finale of Jamie Oliver’s “Food Revolution” and since the series didn’t do very well in the ratings this year, it may be the last Food Revolution show we see for a while. Here’s my recap and review – I’d love to hear what you thought about it, too. A new [...]
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With my new relaxed summertime posting schedule, I realized that I actually forgot do a Friday Buffet last week! An unprecedented lapse in over a year of blogging! (And I’m sure you all were lying awake last Friday wondering about it. . . . You were, right? . . . Anyone? . . . [...]
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