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    The unmasking of a school lunch hero: Mrs. Q speaks

    Now that her book, Fed Up with Lunch, is out, the teacher who blogged her way through a year of eating school lunch finally comes clean.

    Claire Thompson Food

  • New Agtivists: FoodCorps foot soldiers

    Meet three young members of FoodCorps, a new national program which asks young leaders to improve the food systems in limited-resource communities.

    Lily Mihalik Food

  • New made-from-scratch school lunches trick kids into eating healthy

    Schools in Greeley, Colo. are forgoing the frozen pizzas and assorted horse parts in favor of meals made from scratch with fresh ingredients. That's obviously better for students, who get better nutrients and fewer additives, but children are not historically great at doing things that are good for them. How do you sell kids on freshly cooked food when they're clamoring for junk? Greeley's new chef has some tricks up his sleeve:

    Take macaroni and cheese, for example. It will still be a staple on the new menu and will still have that bright, strange yellow color that children have become accustomed to, but it will not be artificial. “No natural cheese is that color,” he said.

    Greeley’s version will be colored by turmeric, a spice associated with Indian cooking. “Adds a really interesting, subtle flavor, too,” Mr. Coates said.

    Jess Zimmerman Food

  • FoodCorps will teach kids, link farms and schools

    FoodCorps puts young workers into communities to deliver nutrition education, build and tend school gardens, and implement farm-to-school programs.

    Tom Laskawy Food

  • D.C. schools chancellor defends decision to ditch chocolate milk

    D.C. Public Schools officials apparently have no intention of reinstating chocolate milk in local cafeterias despite a recent grilling by D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown and the pleadings of a first-grader who polled his fellow students. In an email to Brown dated June 22, newly-confirmed schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson says the decision to remove chocolate […]

    Ed Bruske Uncategorized

  • First-graders and Big Ag agree: More chocolate milk!

    D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown says he's in possession of "research" conducted by a first-grade pupil that convinces him schools in the nation's capital should bring back chocolate milk.

    Ed Bruske Food

  • Jamie Oliver has really pissed off Los Angeles

    The Daily Show – Jamie Oliver Tags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Hey look, Jamie Oliver can talk about improving school lunches for five whole minutes without saying something douchey about fat people! Keep it up, Jamie, because your campaign to increase the real-food content in school lunch […]

    Jess Zimmerman Food

  • Why raising the price of school lunch is a bad idea

    Scene from Dickens’ Oliver Twist. Drawing by George Cruikshank, circa 1837.At a time when many families are struggling with money — and racking up millions of dollars in debt at school cafeterias — school lunch is about to get more expensive. The hike is mandated by the recent Child Nutrition Reauthorization passed by Congress and […]

    Ed Bruske Food

  • USDA releases new nutritional guidelines for school meals

    The fight over the federal school lunch program is really a question of social justice for our times. Do the disadvantaged children for whom the program was designed deserve the chance to eat the same quality food as children from families who can afford to shop at a farmers market?

    Ed Bruske Food