Food Environment Atlas Shows Locations of Food Deserts
by intern Christine Binder
On February 9th, Michelle Obama unveiled Let’s Move, an initiative with the ambitious goal of solving the childhood obesity epidemic within a generation. As part…
Middle School Slow Food clubs meet with Josh Viertel
by Daniela Salazar Monárrez, 8th grader at Hillcrest Academy and Slow Food Club founder
Yesterday the Slow Food clubs of Van Avery Prep and Hillcrest Academy got together with the Slow Food USA…
Fixing School Lunch in America
by intern Christine Binder
Last month, I attended a meeting of parents at a Brooklyn public school. Janet Poppendieck, the author of Free for All: Fixing School Lunch in America, led a…
Home-baked Prohibition
I look back on my school days in Syracuse, NY in the ‘80s and ‘90s, and think: “ we [my classmates] must have been the last of a dying generation.” There was no “No Child…
Students in Oregon Speak Up about School Lunch
Over the last few months, more than 17,000 kids, parents and ordinary citizens have sent letters to Congress asking legislators to invest in healthier food when they reauthorize the Child…
“Let all who are hungry come and eat”
Slow Food USA is a relatively new recruit to the movement to reform the Child Nutrition Act. We entered the fray just last year, and did it in a particularly Slow Food way – by bringing…