When she arrived in Boulder in May 2008 to investigate food service in the schools, Beth Collins found that the cooks had to send paper purchase orders to the school system’s central warehouse to get the ingredients they needed to cook meals. The nutrition services department and the warehouse had computer systems, but they didn’t […]
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Most U.S. schools don’t worry about recipes for the food they serve: it arrives pre-cooked and frozen from industrial factories. All they have to do is re-heat it and put it out on a steam table. Under their newly re-constituted meal service, schools in Boulder are serving food that fits the description “home made.” Recipes come from […]
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Ann Cooper warned me that I might see some unusual things in the school kitchens on my visit to Boulder. I did. One morning at Casey Middle School, five-pound bags of what looked like frozen cookie dough lay on a stainless work table. In fact, labels described the contents as chicken gravy. Not your typical institutional […]
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