Entries Tagged as 'sweden'
Just in time for the “Nordic Day” festivities in D.C. Public Schools next week, my food appreciation classes arrived in Scandinavia on our virtual world food tour and made the best meatballs you’ve ever tasted from scratch–including fresh bread crumbs and white sauce–in less than an hour. It helps to have a portable burner to […]
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At first I thought it was a prank. On September 7, I received an e-mail purporting to be from the press office at the Swedish embassy in Washington. I was invited to attend a “study visit” of the school lunch program in Sweden just two weeks hence. “The Swedish Institute is willing to cover costs […]
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Tags:sweden
Imagine a school cafeteria where lunch is free for all children, where there are no cash registers, no a la carte lines, no vending machines, where kids serve themselves from long food bars loaded with different entrees as well as salads, and where they pour themselves plain milk or water to wash it all down. […]
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Tags:sweden·USDA