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 third in a series of posts about what I saw. You can find previous posts here and here. Each morning Mattie Hall performs a ritual in the cafeteria at […]
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Under legislation introduced this week in the D.C. Council, the District of Columbia would become one of the few jurisdictions in the country to place a bounty on school meals that rely on locally grown foods. The bill mandates an extra five cents for school lunch meals containing fruits and vegetables that are locally grown and minimally processed, […]
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This week was the big rollout of our local farm to school network here in the District of Columbia, but for me it was more like a tale of two cities. My job was to give food demonstrations to the kids in two elementary schools, one a predominantly white school in an affluent area of […]
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