Entries Tagged as 'food news'
The District of Columbia is about to embark on what may be the nation’s most unorthodox public school feeding program: meals from scratch using locally farmed ingredients and made by a charitable social service agency whose primary mission is feeding the homeless and teaching ex-offenders how to cook. Beginning next week, the agency in question–D.C. Central Kitchen–will set […]
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D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), author of recently passed “Healthy Schools” legislation, has asked the city’s attorney general, Peter Nickles, to assist D.C. Public Schools to make sure they are receiving all of the rebates to which they are entitled from their hired food services provider, Chartwells. Cheh’s request follows revelations that prosecutors in […]
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D.C. isn’t a state, but now it’s going to have its own state fair. A group of local food bloggers, including our friend Amelia Showalter, have organized the event to take place on the same day as Columbia Heights Day, with all kinds of contests to judge baked goods, pickles, jams, tastiest tomatoes, “most funky looking […]
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Tags:contests·state fair·tomatoes
