Guest Post
By Dr. Susan Rubin
Albert Einstein said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. When it comes to food, we’ve been counting calories for years expecting a weight loss result that hasn’t materialized. While the food industry would like us to believe that ‘’energy balance” [...]
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The Calories that Really Count
May 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments · food news, politics
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Fun with Food: A Tale of Two Cities
May 22nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · kids, school food
With the mainstream media lavishing so much attention on a recent state dinner at the White House honoring the president of Mexico, I thought it would be interesting to compare what happens at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue foodwise with the less publicized activities taking place in the cafeteria at the D.C. public school my daughter attends barely a [...]
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White House Egg Roll Mob
April 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment · kids
It was a great time. Thanks, Michelle Obama! And thanks to D.C. Central Kitchen for hard-boiling all those eggs.
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Where Does the White House Get All Those Easter Eggs?
April 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · food news
Thousands of kids and their families are expected to descend on the south lawn of the White House on Monday, April 5, to take part in the annual Easter egg roll. The event is so popular, tickets are dolled out through a lottery. But you may be wondering, where do they get all those eggs?
Answer: [...]
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We’re in WashPost “Outlook” Today
February 14th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Tales, kids
There’s been an impressive convergence of attention on school food recently, with “Healthy Schools” legislation introduced in the D.C. Council, then my series of blog posts, “Tales from a D.C. School Kitchen,” detailing the woeful food being served at my daughter’s elementary school, followed by the launch this week of Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign against childhood [...]
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Behind White House Garden Triumph, School Gardens Desperate for Help
February 8th, 2010 · 9 Comments · kids
Sarah Bernardi is one of the teachers from Bancroft Elementary School here in the District of Columbia whose students famously have been helping Michelle Obama grow the new White House vegetable garden. Despite all the interaction between school kids and the First Lady, however, Sarah says her own school garden and others like it depend too [...]
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White House to Veg Garden with School Kids
March 20th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
The garden and food blogs are all atwitter with news that Michelle Obama will be installing a food garden at the White House.
Apparently I was outnumbered in my argument against the garden on grounds that President Obama should think about food policy for the whole nation before he started feeding the First Family produce from [...]
What Do Presidents Eat?
January 15th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
There’s a great move on to have the Obamas start a large vegetable garden at the White House. But do presidents even like vegetables?
We know that George Bush the elder famously hated broccoli. George Washington apparently loved fish and nuts. Abraham Lincoln was so preoccupied with holding the country together that he paid hardly [...]
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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.
