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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Last year, in honor of Food Day, several bloggers and I banded together to host a “virtual progressive dinner party.” The idea was that readers could go from one blog to the next for each successive course, and the hosts provided recipes, step-by-step cooking photos, giveaways — and even virtual glasses of wine. It was [...]
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This morning I woke up and said, today is the end of daily pink slime reporting on The Lunch Tray! And then a few items came to my attention that seemed worth sharing with you, given the commitment of TLT readers to the Change.org petition and the issue generally. So here’s this morning’s round-up: Lean [...]
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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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Two days ago, the Los Angeles Times ran an opinion piece by Robert Gottlieb, director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College, with an update on school food in the Los Angeles Unified School District. While the piece is notable for its failure to make any mention of Jamie Oliver (who made LAUSD [...]
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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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Longtime TLT readers will remember a period when seemingly every post on this blog began with “My friend Donna told me about . . . ” Donna is a fellow Houston parent and foodie (who also used to sit on Houston ISD’s Food Services Parent Advisory Committee with me), and she’s great about passing on [...]
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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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I’ve often discussed here on TLT the critical need to teach home cooking skills to American children, most recently in my post “My Son Learns to Cook But Who Is Teaching the Rest of Our Kids?” There I argued that merely lowering the price of whole foods (as recently proposed by Mark Bittman, among others) [...]
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