With the mainstream media lavishing so much attention on a recent state dinner at the White House honoring the president of Mexico, I thought it would be interesting to compare what happens at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue foodwise with the less publicized activities taking place in the cafeteria at the D.C. public school my daughter attends barely a […]
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Here it is, the winning entry in the national Cooking Up Change contest, high school division, a grilled mult-grain quesadilla with tepary beans prepared by a Native American team from the Tohono O’odham nation in Arizona. Tepary beans are a traditional ingredient to the Tohono O’odham people and this quesadilla wowed the judges gathered for […]
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I’m in Detroit to judge a national student cooking contest–Cooking Up Change–and sitting on the panel with me is Tony Geraci, the famed locavore food services director for schools in Baltimore. After I wrote a series of articles about the industrially-processed convenience foods being served in my daughter’s elementary school here in the District of […]
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