When I told the kids in my fifth-grade food appreciation class we’d be making muffins sweetened with apple sauce and orange juice and blueberries instead of granulated sugar, they literally turned on their heels and ran out to the playground. No kidding. I was left standing there alone with a dumb look on my face. [...]
If the U.S. Department of Agriculture has its way, kids will soon be seeing lots more whole grain food on their cafeteria trays–up to 80 percent more at breakfast under the agency’s proposed new meal guidelines [PDF]. But as my colleague Lisa Suriano pointed out in this space recently, if you thought that meant spelt and quinoa [...]
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Guest Post By Lisa Suriano The U.S. Department of Agriculture has proposed new school meal guidelines [PDF] that call for substantially more whole grains. But if you thought that meant kids would start seeing bulgur and spelt on their cafeteria trays, think again. What it really means are the same old dinner rolls, pizza crusts [...]
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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.
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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