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Chartwells gets big rebates serving meals like this By Ed Bruske aka The Slow Cook When I first started writing about the food being served in my daughter’s elementary school cafeteria, I figured there had to be a reason children were being fed Apple Jacks cereal, strawberry milk, Pop-Tarts, Giant Goldfish Grahams and Otis Spunkmeyer muffins for [...]
Posted in SchoolsOctober is apparently ALL THINGS FOOD month….. DC Farm to School Week — which celebrates healthier food options inside the schools — begins next Monday, Oct 3. But this week you can celebrate the gardens that are helping to teach kids how our food grows just outside of their classrooms, in their very own schoolyards. [...]
What’s a child’s first reaction to a bright orange roasted sweet potato on her cafeteria tray? “Weird!” or “What’s that?!” But take that child to a nearby farm and show her how sweet potatoes are grown; or bring a local chef into her classroom to make a delicious sweet potato dish. Then what? That sweet potato in her school meal is gone before you know it!
The D.C. Farm to School Network is pleased to announce that the third annual D.C. Farm to School Week will take place October 3-7, 2011 in schools across Washington, DC! The week will get students excited about local food and where it comes from. Schools will feature seasonal, local foods in their school meals, and engage students in hands-on food education.
Berkeley’s breakfast in a bin By Ed Bruske aka The Slow Cook When I worked in Berkeley’s central school kitchen a year ago one of the things that impressed me most was something I’d never heard of before: breakfast served in the classroom. Every morning at the crack of dawn we’d start loading plastic [...]
Not coming back to D.C. schools By Ed Bruske aka The Slow Cook D.C. Public Schools officials apparently have no intention of reinstating chocolate milk in local cafeterias despite a recent grilling by D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown and the pleadings of a first-grader who polled his fellow students. In an e-mail to Brown [...]
Posted in SchoolsBy Ed Bruske aka The Slow Cook The National Dairy Council is circulating the testimony of a first-grader at Lafayette Elementary School who told the D.C. Council kids aren’t drinking milk as much since chocolate milk was removed from the menu. D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown last week grilled schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson on the [...]
Posted in SchoolsBy Ed Bruske aka The Slow Cook Suddenly a debate over chocolate milk in school is heating up in the pages of The Washington Post. Or should I say our hometown paper has finally noticed there’s a food revolution going on in D.C. school cafeterias now that a first-grader has polled his fellow [...]
Posted in SchoolsBy Ed Bruske aka The Slow Cook D.C.Council Chairman Kwame Brown says he’s in possession of “research” conducted by a first-grade pupil that convinces him schools in the nation’s capitol should bring back chocolate milk. Brown made the remarks in an animated exchange last week with Kaya Henderson during hearings to consider her confirmation as schools chancellor. Saying a [...]
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