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Breaking News: Washington Times Puts Screws to D.C. School Food Provider

January 26th, 2010 · 3 Comments · food news, Tales

By some sort of crazy coincidence, a reporter for the Washington Times newspaper was investigating Chartwells, the contracted food provider for D.C. Public Schools, at the same time that I was spending a week in a school kitchen discovering just how bad our school food is. Last week I published a six-part series under the […]

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Tales from a D.C. School Kitchen: Epilogue

January 25th, 2010 · 6 Comments · kids, Tales

Regular readers who tune to The Slow Cook blog for recipes and updates on my compost pile have probably been a little dismayed to see these postings turned over to stories from an elementary school kitchen. To you, I apologize. We will soon be returning to the humdrum affairs of running a kitchen garden about a […]

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Tales from a D.C. School Kitchen: Conclusion

January 24th, 2010 · 4 Comments · kids, Tales

I recently spent a week in the kitchen at H.D. Cooke Elementary School here in the District of Columbia observing how food is prepared. This is the last of a six-part series of posts about what I saw. You can find previous posts here, here,  here, here and here. When I asked to spend time observing the […]

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