Jeffrey Mills, director of food services for D.C. Public Schools, told parents at H.D. Cooke Elementary school yesterday that the city’s schools beginning in the fall would no longer serve flavored milk or sugary cereals. Mills made the remarks at a meeting to discuss staffing changes in the H.D. Cook cafeteria and further details could not […]
One of the most disturbing things I saw during the week I spent in the kitchen at my daughter’s elementary school recently was all the sugar being served to children. From the Pop Tarts and Apple Jacks on the breakfast line, to the fruit juice, the chocolate- and strawberry-flavored milk on constant display, to the […]
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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 fourth in a six-part series of posts about what I saw. You can find previous posts here, here and here. At 7:30 a.m., the first glimmer of daybreak tints a wall of […]
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