Entries Tagged as 'school food'
I flew out to Chicago-land yesterday to surprise my parents for a family reunion to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary. They thought I was just being my usual non-communicative self when I didn’t respond to the original invitation. But my four sisters were all in on the scheme, which was to unveil me at a […]
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Tags:family·rebates
My first article for Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution blog appears today, a condensed version of a report I published here last week detailing the dairy industry’s efforts to create a popular mythology around the notion that kids must have flavored milk available to them in school or else face the possibility of crippling rickets and osteoporosis. Parents, […]
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Tags:flavored milk·Jamie Oliver
A few weeks ago WAMU radio’s education reporter, Kavitha Carodoz, interviewed me for a report on childhood obesity and what people are trying to do about it in the District of Columbia. I appear in part four of the five-part series that aired last week, talking about some of the nastier food D.C. schools have served and […]
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Tags:radio·WAMU