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‘Top Chef’ should take up the ultimate challenge: school lunch
Season 7 of Bravo’s Top Chef will be based in Washington, D.C., reported the Metrocurean (no relation) a few days ago, with filming to begin in early April. That means that the popular reality show, with
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Sustainable food movement has a class problem
The flavor of fairness: When a recent UC Santa Cruz study asked grocery shoppers on California's Central Coast to rank their concerns about the food system, respondents prioritized animal welfare above the treatment of human workers on the farms. This is but one example, says Bay Guardian reporter Caitlin
Outside culinary advice helps revamp school lunch
Cafeteria consulting: Oak Park Unified School District, 3,800-student district in Southern California (map), has revamped their lunch program
Teaching food and cooking in elementary school
Reading, writing and ratatouille: In the latest edition of the Chronicle's "What I Do" series, Michael Bauce tells about teaching cooking and nutrition to the 400+ students of Thousand Oaks Elementary School in Berkeley, California. Bauce's class — which appears to be funded by an outside grant, not
Life Lab creates farm-to-school learning programs
Today is "Farm to Institution" day for the USDA's new "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food" initiative. Obama
‘Eating In’ for Better Food in Schools
I went to a Slow Food USA "Eat In" at the foot of San Francisco's magnificent City Hall on Monday, one of several hundred events across the country that aims to build a movement around the upcoming reauthorization of the Child
School lunch reform: A pipe dream or a deluge?
The kids will have their... whole wheat roll?: The momentum is building for big changes to the national school lunch program, reports Kim Severson in the New York Times. Ann Cooper, the chef who famously transformed lunches in the Berkeley school system and has since moved on to Boulder, Colorado, is
Time to get tray serious: Get involved with a Child Nutrition Act campaign now
School’s out for the summer, but there’s a food fight going on in the cafeteria. In Washington, Congress is turning up the heat on the policies that determine what 30 million children will eat once the lunch
USDA cancels successful school nutrition program for poor kids in Philly
Trays terrible: As the Philadelphia Inquirer reported the USDA might last week, the agency has just gone through with plans to end a well-regarded Philadelphia school breakfast and lunch program,
Mom tells school to cut out the junk-food partnerships
Nuggets of truth: A frustrated Pattie Baker blogs about how yet again, her daughter's elementary school is partnering with a fast food restaurant for a "night" (from which it gets a cut of the sales). The class with the most participation gets chicken nuggets for the upcoming field-day picnic. The "beating-a-dead-horse
St. Louis school gets SOLE
An organic apple a day: A Kansas City-based company, Bistro Kids, that puts good food in schools has opened a program at a school in St. Louis. Ethicurean team member Debra Eschmeyer is quoted! (St.
Digest - News: Antibiotics in byproducts fed to cows, Sebelius lobbied to veto milk labeling bill
It was a very busy week for the Ethicurean bees, and we had to skip the weekend Digest. So some of these links may be a tad moldy, but hey — expiration dates are for sissies. Send your tasty news links to digest@ethicurean.com. Distilling madness: We've written
Digest - Features and blogs: The great OJ caper, the anti-produce lobby, and urban-rural love
Take a bite outta that: Orange juice is marketed as a healthy, natural food, but it's actually the end product of a process that involves long-term storage, chemistry, and "flavor packs." As is generally the case, you're much better off just eating an orange. Q&A with author Alissa Hamilton, whose
Digest - Commentary & blogs: School food programs need to start from scratch, Vilsack unCOOL’d, NYC foodshed
Trays important: Alice Waters and Chez Panisse Foundation director Katrina Heron urge the Obama administration to fix the National School Lunch Program not by throwing a little more money at it, but by starting from scratch. Which means a lot more dough: enough for schools to afford to cook and serve
Digest - Blogs: Fat tax, healthy kids, and everyone has something to say about Vilsack
Glass half full (hopefully of rBGH-free, organic, grassfed, family-farmed milk): Obama ran a rural campaign based on an agenda that included many policies that we can support — like regulating CAFOs — and the job of the cabinet is to implement to president's agenda. Our job is to stay on their
