USDA to Help Schools Buy Local!
Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan wasn't joking when she said a few weeks ago that she wanted to “play the role of matchmaker during this administration” and link existing USDA programs with local and regional food initiatives. Today, in an exciting moment for school lunch, she announced that the USDA will ...
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September 15, 2009
Good News Out of the USDA
It may truly be a new era for the USDA when it comes to school lunch. Yes, the department is still closely linked to the meat and dairy lobbies, and it still issues dozens of regulations that don't make sense. But school meals — and healthy school meals, at that ...
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September 2, 2009
Mark Your Calendars for Slow Food’s School Lunch Action Day
What do you get when you combine potluck dishes, the child nutrition reauthorization and thousands of advocates for healthy school food? Slow Food USA calls the result an "eat-in," and hundreds are about to take place across the United States. On Labor Day, this coming Monday, advocates in 290 cities across ...
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September 1, 2009
Legislation Update: A Five-Point Plan to Improve the Child Nutrition
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn outlined a five-point plan this week to improve the Child Nutrition Act, and four of those points deal with school lunches. Here's what's on the (lunch) table: 1. Access to Free Meals: Currently, the children are eligible to receive a ...
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August 14, 2009
Fast Food in Schools, and Some Other Cafeteria Numbers From 2008
After sampling my way through the School Nutrition Association's food expo earlier this month, I picked up a copy of the organization's annual survey of school cafeterias. I just got around to leafing through it, and some of the numbers jumped out at me. The most shocking piece of the report ...
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July 26, 2009
Country Watch: Italy
By Deborah Lehmann — When I blogged about cafeterias in France a few weeks ago, I thought I had found the country that was most different from the United States when it comes to school lunch. Then I found Italy. Italy is like the United States in one respect: both countries look ...
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May 19, 2009
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