D.C. Public Schools in the last two years have taken in more than $1 million in corporate rebates–referred to by some as “kickbacks”–paid by giant food manufacturers as an inducement to place their brands on kids’ cafeteria trays at school. Documents obtained by The Slow Cook through the Freedom of Information Act show that Chartwells, the company […]
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Jamie Oliver at his widely followed website this week linked to our sister blog, Better D.C. School Food, and news that D.C. Public Schools will no longer serve flavored milk and sugary cereals. The result was more than 100 times the usual number of visitors at the blog yesterday and more than 100 comments, almost unanimously […]
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Guest Post By Andrea Northup If you walked into a D.C. school cafeteria on June 3rd2010, you may have been surprised at what you saw on students’ trays. More than 150 schools in DC featured fresh, locally-grown strawberries and salad greens as a part of their school lunches. This was part of an event called […]
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