A proper FEAST – culinary education in school
by Kate Justen with Patrick Keeler
On September 24th the first FEAST (Fresh, Easy, Affordable, Sustainable, Tasty) cooking course of the new school year was held at Asheville Middle School. Over…
NYT and WaPo Report on Efforts to Fix School Lunch
by Slow Food USA staffer Gordon Jenkins
School lunch is all over the national newspapers today. In The New York Times, Kim Severson writes about a public school in Queens in New York City with an…
Seed-to-plate curriculum at Desert Marigold School
by Youth Programs Intern Heather Teige
Slow Food USA will profile a number of our 2008 Slow Food in Schools Micro-Grant recipients in the coming months. Look out for these profiles, along with…
The Power of Eating Together
by Slow Food USA President Josh Viertel
This post originally appeared on the Atlantic Food Channel
Letting go is hard for me. I want to touch everything. I have strong and specific opinions…
Legislation Update: The Healthy Food for Healthy Schools Act
by Debbie Lehmann
Deborah Lehmann is an editor of School Lunch Talk, a blog about school food. She is currently studying economics and public policy at Brown University and joins us to weigh in…
Nationwide “eat-ins” show way to a revived National School Lunch Program
by Slow Food USA Board Member Chef Kurt Michael Friese
All across the country this past Labor Day, folks gathered for picnics. That’s no surprise, of course. After all, it was a holiday,…