Giant food service companies apparently will do whatever it takes to squelch information about the impact of rebates on meals served to children in the nation’s schools. At a recent conference hosted by the American Association of School Administrators, representatives of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) who had paid $5,000 to participate in the conference at Denver’s convention [...]
Tags: American Association of School Administrators·Aramark·Chartwells·rebates·School Nutrition Associaton·Service Employees International Union·Sodexo
Science writer Gary Taubes We may look back on this week as the moment when public opinion finally turned against the idea that fat is what makes us ill and embraced the emerging science implicating sugar as the nation’s number one threat to good health. In Sunday’s New York Time’s Magazine, science writer Gary Taubes [...]
Tags: diabetes·falvored milk·heart disease·obesity·school food·sugar
The D.C. Environmental Film Festival always presents a mind-boggling area of great documentaries. Here’s a schedule of up-coming screenings directly related to food and agriculture. March 17 7:00 p.m. Maret School Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Wine Welcome by Kathy Sweeney-Hammond, Academic Affairs Director, Maret School. Introduced by Andrea Meditch, Chair of Development Committee, Maret School. Portrait [...]
Tags: food films
We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
What's in your turkey? We killed and butchered more than 80 birds on the farm of Mike and Michelle Klein in Prince George's County. Thankfully, Michelle did the gutting. Unfortunately, Mike bought his turkey chicks earlier than usual and they did not stop growing. Our prize for helping was a carcass that weighed nearly 40 pounds. It barely fit in the oven. Here, Mike is subjecting a slaughtered bird to the "magic fingers," a machine with a nubby, rotating barrel that removes most of the feathers. 
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