Free breakfast. No sodas. More vegetables. Physical exercise. These are the cornerstones of sweeping “Healthy Schools” legislation (previous posts here, here, here and here) introduced last week in the D.C. Council. Parents and nutritionists across the country have watched with alarm in recent years as children have become increasingly obese and even fallen victim to adult [...]
What do teachers do to prepare for the new school year? At the private elementary school where I teach my food food appreciation classes, one of the things we do is hold an assembly with the school nurse and study the health problems of every kid in the school who has one. These can range [...]
Tags: food allergies·school
Here’s a subject that doesn’t get talked about much: What’s it like being the only white kid in your class in an inner-city public school? From my days as a reporter for the Washington Post I distinctly remember writing a story about race relations in the public schools and interviewing white parents who described the [...]
Tags: school·urban issues
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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