When Alice Waters came to Washington last month she met with D.C. schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee and the schools’ new food service director, Jeffrey Mills, to talk about building a model school garden program in the District. Mills was already keen on the idea, so in very short order he asked Sarah Bernardi at Bancroft […]
D.C. Schools COO, Anthony Tata Anthony Tata, a former brigadier general and career Army officer in charge of procurement in Afghanistan, is the chief operating officer for D.C. Public Schools, second in rank to chancellor Michelle Rhee. Tata was a close reader of our recent series of articles on the food served in D.C. schools–Tales from […]
With snow being cleared, the ice skating rink in the Smithsonian Institution’s Sculpture Garden finally reopened yesterday. Daughter invited friends to walk a little over a mile over not-entirely-shoveled sidewalks to the rink. But first, they sat down to pancakes. Marion Cunningham, in The Breakfast Book, says, “This basic pancake tastes better than all the others […]
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