I’ll be on the Kojo Nnamdi show at noon today with Chef Cathal Armstrong of Restaurant Eve talking about the food in D.C. schools, something we’ve been writing about quite a lot in recent months.
We’ve got an entire hour for the discussion, so don’t be afraid to call in or e-mail your questions about how we [...]
Entries Tagged as 'school food'
We’re on Kojo Today
September 1st, 2010 · No Comments · food news, school food
Tags: Kojo Nnamdi·radio·school food
Mystery of Missing Local Peaches Solved
August 27th, 2010 · 5 Comments · kids
On Tuesday I contacted D.C. schools wondering why the “local peach” that was supposed to be on my daughter’s breakfast tray looked so much like canned peaches instead. I also inquired where parents needed to look to find the ingredients for school menu items, as required by the new “Healthy Schools Act” that went into [...]
Tags: local food·parents·school food
Something New in School Food: D.C. Central Kitchen’s Local Food Connection
August 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · food news, kids
The District of Columbia is about to embark on what may be the nation’s most unorthodox public school feeding program: meals from scratch using locally farmed ingredients and made by a charitable social service agency whose primary mission is feeding the homeless and teaching ex-offenders how to cook.
Beginning next week, the agency in question–D.C. Central Kitchen–will set up [...]
Tags: school food
The Trouble with Local Produce in Schools
August 7th, 2010 · 6 Comments · food news
I wonder if anyone else attending the “food services round-table” this week at D.C. Public Schools headquarters was struck by food services director Jeffrey Mills’ comment that he and his crew have recently taste-tested some 300 different “food products” for the upcoming school year.
Mills said he personally had tasted “30 different chicken products,” in the [...]
Tags: school food
There is No Plan
August 4th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Blog, food news
Those who went to a “food services round-table” with D.C. school officials expecting to hear a long-term strategic plan for improving school food came away disappointed last night. Despite good buzz around the announcement of vendors for two new pilot meal programs offering more fresh and less processed food, it’s clear that schools Chief Operating Officer Anthony Tata [...]
Tags: school food
What to do About the White Stuff: Sugar in Schools
May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Blog, Wellness, kids
Guest Post
By Susan Rubin, DMD
As a dentist fresh out of school in the late 1980’s, I was idealistic and passionate about my new profession. I gave lots of “tooth talks” at schools and childcare centers every February, during Children’s Dental Health month. It wasn’t until I started having kids of my own that I learned [...]
Tags: school food·sugar
Beyond “Museum” Gardens
April 15th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Wellness, garden, kids
By Jesse Kurtz-Nicholl
With all of the coverage of Michelle Obama in the news lately, you would be a fool not to think that gardens are the answer to all of our public health problems. In addition to the “White House” garden, you’ve got the new “People’s Garden” at the USDA building in D.C., you’ve got [...]
Tags: obesity·school food·school gardens
You Call This Food?
April 8th, 2010 · 12 Comments · Tales, kids
I was ready to have a perfectly civilized discussion–blog-to-blog–with Sam Fromartz over at ChewsWise on the subject of what we can do to get kids to eat better when I was stopped dead in my tracks by the lunch being served at my daughter’s elementary school here in the nation’s capital. Look at the photo [...]
Tags: school food
Is Marion Barry My Soul Mate?
March 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · kids
Testifying before the D.C. Council on “Healthy Schools” legislation yesterday, I found an unexpected ally in Councilmember and former Mayor Marion Barry (D-Ward 8), who went out of his way to criticize the food in D.C. schools
I was there to tell the author of the legislation, Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), that she had left [...]
$6.5 Million Tab for Healthy Schools
March 27th, 2010 · No Comments · kids
Improved nutrition, easier access to school food and incorporating local produce in school meals would cost the District an estimated $6.5 million annually under proposed “Healthy Schools” legislation, according to the D.C. government’s Chief Financial Officer, Natwar M. Gandi.
Gandi released written testimony yesterday indicating that most of that money would be spent on increasing the [...]
Tags: "Healthy Schools"·school food
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.
