Last week I volunteered, as I do every month, with Recipe for Success – a comprehensive “seed to plate” instructional program that brings gardens, cooking, nutrition education and celebrity chefs into local schools. I don’t always post about my experiences with R4S, but last week’s class was so fun I wanted to share. Instead of [...]
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By now most of you have probably either read or heard about Tara Parker-Pope’s cover story in Sunday’s New York Times magazine, “The Fat Trap,” which reviews the most recent obesity science to explain why maintaining weight loss can be close to impossible for the vast majority of dieters. In a nutshell: For years, the [...]
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Well, this felt like a big cosmic joke. . . . Over the weekend, I was pleased to share with TLT readers my opinion piece in the Sunday Houston Chronicle urging our district to put an end to outsourced, highly processed foods in favor of scratch-cooked school meals with more variety than just pizza, burgers and fried [...]
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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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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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Here in Houston, students can volunteer to participate in an innovative program called Marathon Kids. It’s a free exercise, nutrition and schoolyard gardening program designed to get children, over a six-month period – to accumulate 26.2 miles of walking or running (in 1/4 to 1/2 mile increments) and to eat five servings a day of fruits [...]
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Last week I volunteered (as I do every month) with Recipe for Success, a wonderful “seed to plate” organization that brings school gardens and chefs to schools. Along with celebrity chef Monica Pope, RFS Director of Operations Molly Graham and two other volunteers, our fourth-grade class made veggie pizza using ingredients from the school garden. [...]
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As I told you a few weeks ago, Slate magazine is seeking reader proposals to end the childhood obesity crisis. I’m late getting my submission in, but here it is. If you like what I’ve written, would you mind taking a second to click the link at the bottom of the post and voting for [...]
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Last week I volunteered, as I do every month, with a group of fourth grade students at an economically disadvantaged elementary school participating in Houston’s Recipe for Success program. For this lesson, celebrity chef Monica Pope demonstrated for the class in a graphic way some of the ingredients in a processed Hot Pocket. For [...]
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