Pattie Baker and I are fellow travelers in the garden and food activism realm. We’ve been trading tips and encouragement seems like forever. You can find her at Pattie Baker.com, and at Sustainable Pattie.
A native New Yorker, she moved to Atlanta but came through town this week with her kids. She dropped by yesterday morning [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Food Blogs'
Meetup with Pattie Baker
July 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Blog, garden
Tags: blogging·Food Blogs
Reporting on School Food: I’m the Maytag Repairman
June 13th, 2010 · No Comments · kids, school food
This originally appeared as a guest post at Fed Up with Lunch on June 8.
Can you name a federal program that provides vital services to 10 percent of the U.S. population every day, yet has not a single reporter from the mainstream media assigned to cover it on a sustained basis?
That would be the federal school [...]
Tags: Food Blogs·food news
Big Washington Meets Little Washington
May 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment · entertaining, garden
I don’t even remember how we made the initial connection over the internet. But Sylvie Rowand–she of the Rappahanock Cook & Kitchen Gardener blog–and I of The Slow Cook–have been trading comments and food ideas electronically from the shared perspective of cooking kitchen gardeners. We grow ours here in the District of Columbia, about a [...]
Tags: Food Blogs·lamb·spit roasting
NY Times Shout-Out to Our Parents Blog
May 19th, 2010 · No Comments · food news
The New York Times this morning has a piece on soda taxes that gives a great big kiss to our parents blog–Better D.C. School Food–for its coverage of the meals being served in D.C. Schools.
The Times is examining the utility of and politics surrounding soda taxes, such as the one now pending before the D.C. [...]
Tags: "Healthy Schools"·Better D.C. School Food·Food Blogs·press
We’re in the News
January 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · food news
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 daughter [...]
Tags: about us·District of Columbia·farmer's markets·Food Blogs·plastic·Tales from a D.C. School Kitchen
Saturated Fat Vindicated?
January 27th, 2010 · 2 Comments · food news
We don’t harbor any prejudices against fat. In fact, we respect fat as an essential macro-nutrient, along with protein. On a low-carb, high-fat and protein diet, I’ve lost a ton of weight and improved my health dramatically by every standard measure. What’s important is not how much fat you eat, but what kind of fat.
We try [...]
Tags: fat·Food Blogs·heart disease
We’re a Hit at Grist
January 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Blog
Posts from our recent series Tales from a D.C. School Kitchen, detailing how food is prepared at our local elementary school here in the nation’s capitol, currently occupy two of the top five spots as “most viewed” articles at Grist, the online environmental magazine.
We’re just behind Michelle Obama’s vow to take on childhood obesity, Robert [...]
A Food Stamp Thanksgiving
November 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments · food news
With the entire nation girding for a gustatory blowout, we would do well to remember that not everyone has the means to put on their own feast for Thanksgiving. One D.C. blogger has been doing exactly that, chronicling for the past month a challenge she set for herself: survive at least 30 days on a [...]
Tags: Food Blogs·food stamps·poverty
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.
