Entries Tagged as 'farmer’s markets'
Washington City Paper’s “Young and Hungry” column this week spills some ink in defense of our recent series, “Tales from a D.C. School Kitchen.” “Y&H isn’t quite sure how he missed this, but former Washington Post reporter Ed Bruske recently spent a week in the kitchen at H.D. Cooke Elementary School in Adams Morgan. where his […]
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Tags:about us·District of Columbia·farmer's markets·Food Blogs·plastic·Tales from a D.C. School Kitchen
How do you keep the cider hot when the mercury reads 20 degrees and the wind is gusting 40 miles per hour? Today was the first day of winter season hours for the Dupont Circle farmers market here in the District of Columbia. Most markets in our area closed shortly after Thanksgiving and won’t be […]
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Tags:farmer's markets·local farming·local foods·winter
Has there ever been a time when more attention was paid to what poor people eat? Cheap food–and I would argue cheap, refined carbohydrates above all–are blamed for a national epidemic of obesity and diabetes and nowhere has the scourge of modern diseases hit harder than among the poor. It stands to reason, then, that […]
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Tags:farmer's markets·food stamps·poverty