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Olney Friends School in Ohio grows food to grow enrollment
The farm-to-school movement has been gaining ground lately as advocates encourage administrators to bring more local food into school cafeterias. But at Olney Friends School in Barnesville,
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Q&A with Michele Simon — activist, attorney, badass
It's always fun to talk with someone who has such a sense of purpose that she doesn't feel the need to make nice. Michele Simon is one of those people. Let me be clear: Simon, a public health attorney for the Marin Institute, and author of Appetite
‘Top Chef’ fails school-food test, but Colicchio passes with flying colors
In Episode 2 of this season's "Top Chef," the contestants took on school lunch: the 16 contestants divided into four teams, each of which had to cook a nutritionally acceptable
The Edible Schoolyard brings learning to life
The cover story of this week's East Bay Express has a provocative teaser: "Berkeley's Edible
Food Corps puts new energy into school lunch programs
You've probably heard about service programs that put volunteer teaching assistants in classrooms of underprivileged schools or put new college graduated into troubled schools. A new program called Food Corps puts a twist in that old formula, sending volunteers into school kitchens and purchasing offices.
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‘Revolution’ off to contentious and hopeful start
The ABC preview of "Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution” Sunday night has me modestly hopeful that ordinary Americans — those largely untouched by the movement to improve diet and agriculture — might watch and learn. “Revolution”
‘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.
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
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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
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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,
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