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Podcast title	Chef Ann Cooper : Renegade Lunch Lady
Website URL	http://www.chefann.com/blog
Description	Chef Ann Cooper is a renegade lunch lady who works to transform cafeterias into culinary classrooms for students - one school lunch at a time. She brings you information to learn about the importance of changing the way America feeds its children.
Updated	Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:57:23 +0000
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1. Ann Cooper Interview http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: The Cookthink Questionnaire: Ann Cooper November 17th, 2008 Ann Cooper is the director of nutrition services for the Berkeley Unified School District. Her newest book is Lunch Lessons: Changing the [...]
2. Breakfast in the Classroom http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: November 17, 2008 Its a Hit: Breakfast in the Classroom By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ The 8-year-olds in Elizabeth Apostolidiss classroom at Public School 70 were talking business over their Crispix and bananas. Seen the newest Batman movie yet? Nasty weather outside, huh? Whats with that gross apple-cinnamon filling in the bagels? It was the kind of quality conversation among [...]
3. Kids & Heart Disease http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Health News:Heart Disease Study: Obese Children, Teens Have the Arteries of45-Year-Olds Getty ImagesBy Sally ChewTUESDAY, Nov. 11, 2008 (Health.com) " Obese children have as much plaque in their neck arteries as middle-aged adults, according to a study presented this week at the American Heart Association meeting in New Orleans.This precocious buildup of fatty deposits may give kids [...]
4. Bad Beef http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/10/burgers-health-food-forbesl ife-cs_rr_1110health.html Health What’s Really In Your Fast Food? Rebecca Ruiz, 11.10.08, 05:40 PM EST A new report reveals how your favorite hamburgers, chicken sandwiches and fries go from farm to table. .head111008fastfood { background-color: #336699; color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; padding:2px;}.border111008fastfood{ border:1px solid #003366;}.bordercolor111008fastfood { background-color: #336699;}.row111008fastfood { background-color: #ffffff;}.row1111008fastfood { [...]
5. Bake Sales http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Bake Sales Fall Victim to Push for Healthier Foods By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN PIEDMONT, Calif. " Tommy Cornelius and the other members of the Piedmont High School boys water polo team never expected to find themselves running through school in their Speedos to promote a bake sale across the street. But times have been tough since [...]
6. Dear Mr. President from The Grist http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Going up? Part 2 Sustainable food and ag folks offer their elevator pitches for Obama Posted by Grist at 5:44 AM on 07 Nov 2008 We asked a number of leaders in sustainable food and agriculture to imagine they found themselves in an elevator with the president-elect — giving them one minute of his undivided attention. Here are [...]
7. Orfalea Foundation - Doing GREAT work! http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: s‘Cool Food Needs Assessment: Public Report WHY sCOOL FOOD? Of the six leading causes of death in the United States today, four are linked to unhealthy diets.i Alarmingly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recently stated that: (i) more than a third of todays six-year-olds (and as many as half in minority communities) will develop [...]
8. Kidney Stones & Kids! http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: A Rise in Kidney Stones Is Seen in U.S. Children By LAURIE TARKAN To the great surprise of parents, kidney stones, once considered a disorder of middle age, are now showing up in children as young as 5 or 6. While there are no reliable data on the number of cases, pediatric urologists and nephrologists across the [...]
9. School Lunch is Getting Worse http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Newsday.com Lean funding, fatty food Why school cafeterias have little choice but to offer meals that are less than ideal BY JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER jennifer.kelleher@newsday.com School districts across Long Island, which collect nearly $7 billion each year in taxes, offer lunch menus dominated by pizza, chicken nuggets, burgers and fries despite a nationwide call to fight childhood obesity. School food service [...]
10. Healthy School Meals http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Despite costs, healthy school lunches on themenu Special thanks to Margaret Stafford of the Associated Press for writing this article! By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: October 6, 2008 Filed at 3:23 a.m. ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) " The buffet offers a variety of pizzas, with whole wheat crust, organic toppings and hormone-free cheese. The salad bar includes some greens [...]
11. Marketing to Children http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: We really need to stop marketing milk to children - first off what about lactose intolerence — further why are we teaching children marketing is “cool.” October 12, 2008 Consumed Milk Cartoon By ROB WALKER Milk Media This past July, the Federal Trade Commission handed over to Congress its 120-page report on the subject of marketing food to children and adolescents. [...]
12. Michael Pollan’s a genius http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: This is a Must read - Pollan is a genius — I felt like clapping when I was reading this. Farmer in Chief By MICHAEL POLLAN The New York Times Dear Mr. President-Elect, It may surprise you to learn that among the issues that will occupy much of your time in the coming years is one you barely mentioned [...]
13. Colorado Schools - Better School Food http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Fresh ideas in the lunchroom Food fight \| From community gardens to private chefs, activists change menu. By Kristen Browning-Blas The Denver Post Article Launched:10/01/2008 12:30:00 AM MDT Kindergarten students Melia Pacheco Fluker, left, and Jiselle Barry mix a salad at Fairmont Academy. ( Cyrus McCrimmon, The Denver Post ) Whatever you think about school lunch, many agree it’s time to [...]
14. School Lunch Remake http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: School Lunches, Making the Grade? By Jennifer Huget Tuesday, September 30, 2008; HE01 This is the first appearance of The Post’s new nutrition column. Full disclosure: I have an abiding fondness for certain school lunch items from my youth, including a peculiar breed of bland and flabby pizza that, while nearly nutrition- and taste-free, had a comforting mouth-feel that [...]
15. New Haven Schools http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: September 28, 2008 Town Green \| New Haven Whole Grains, Fresh Corn: School Menu on a Mission By GERRI HIRSHEY NEW HAVEN NEVER mind your Iron Chefs, your swashbuckling Dinner: Impossible TV cooks. Could any of those free-range stove jockeys turn out healthy and toothsome breakfasts and lunches for 20,000 spirited young food critics " every [...]
16. School Food http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: The School Food Revolution Chef Ann Cooper is leading the fight to change the way we feed our children. By Lisa Thibodeau When public school kids in Berkeley sit down for lunch, they dig in to a meal made from scratch, with fresh fruits and vegetables, organic milk and whole grains. They are not fed trans fats, [...]
17. New Jersey Schools http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: School Lunches Get a Healthy Makeover by Natalie Pompilio Posted August 13, 2008 With new nutrition standards New Jersey schools are making mystery meat a thing of the past. Julia Cameron noticed the changes almost immediately. When the Bergen County Academy student walked into her school cafeteria last September, not only was the dcor different"posters featuring actors and singers [...]
18. Chef Ann - Women Doing Good http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN NATIONWIDE RECEIVE SELF MAGAZINES WOMEN DOING GOOD AWARD; “RENEGADE LUNCH LADY” ANN COOPER AMONG THE HONOREES SELF, Together With Program Sponsors Maybelline New York and Kashi, Honors Three Women Whose Philanthropic Work Improves Their Communities and the World September 24 2008; New York, NY " SELF Magazines inaugural Women Doing Good Awards recognize three [...]
19. Chef Ann at Whole Foods http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Listen to the Lunch Lady! [guest blogger Lynn Gowdy, who works at Whole Foods, will hopefully be joining Sacatomato as a regular poster] Do you care about what your kids eat for lunch? While perusing culinary-type sites on the web one evening, I stumbled upon The Renegade Lunch Lady, Chef Ann Cooper. I stopped at her website and [...]
20. School Lunch in Japan http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Hello from Japan, An American friend just sent me your link on school lunches in the US. I live in Japan now and have since 1991. I have 3 kids in the school system here and thought you may be interested to know a few facts about school lunches in Japan, perhaps some interesting tidbits for [...]
21. Food Policy http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: S.F. developing policy on use of local food Erin Allday, Chronicle Staff WriterThursday, September 4, 2008 The Bay Area produces more than enough fruits and vegetables to feed San Francisco, and Mayor Gavin Newsom wants to get a lot more of that local produce onto the plates of anyone served a public meal - including schoolchildren, homeless [...]
22. Slow Food http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1838757,00. html Thursday, Sep. 04, 2008 Can Slow Food Feed the World? By Bryan Walsh Over Labor day weekend, thousands of foodies flooded a special farmers’ market set up by Slow Food Nation in San Francisco’s grand Civic Center. But the gourmands who showed up eager to fill their baskets with dry-farmed Early Girl tomatoes and muslin-wrapped Cheddar cheeses might [...]
23. High Prices & School Food http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: September 1, 2008 Hard Times Hitting Students and Schools By SAM DILLON LOUISVILLE, Ky. " With mortgage foreclosures throwing hundreds of families out of their homes here each month, dismayed school officials say they are feeling the upheaval: record numbers of students turning up for classes this fall are homeless or poor enough to qualify for free meals. Were [...]
24. Farm to School http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Eat Up, Kids, This Spud’s for You By ANNE MARIE CHAKER August 28, 2008;PageD1 Karen Kleinkopf, whose two daughters attend Great Salt Bay Community School in Damariscotta, Maine, visited the cafeteria at lunchtime one day last fall. “The response was incredible,” she says. “Little kids were eating organic potatoes saying, ‘I love this. Can we have this every [...]
25. Berkeley Unifed School District http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: King Middle School Gets New Cafeteria, Berkeley Unified Gets New Kitchen Riya Bhattacharjee, Berkeley Daily Planet (online edition), 8/25/2008 Until earlier this month, students at Martin Luther King Middle School in Berkeley could pretty much eat lunch anywhere they wanted.Most preferred the baseball field, the steps of the amphitheater, or, as a former King middle-schooler put it, [...]
26. Portland Schools & Kaiser http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Grant from Kaiser Permanente Community Fund Puts Local Food on the Menu in Portland Public Schools and Gervais School Districts Local Farmers and Food Processors to Profit from Growing and Cooking for Thousands of Students this School Year; Kids Benefit from Nutritious, Local Ingredients PORTLAND, OR " The first school assembly of the new academic year will [...]
27. New Chef for Baltimore Students http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Food Politics [...]
28. Cost of School Lunch http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: August 25, 2008 As Food Costs Rise, So Do School Lunch Prices By WINNIE HU Gas pumps, grocery stores, and now school cafeterias. Prices on some school lunch lines are going up this fall as school officials, like many others, struggle to pay higher prices and delivery fees for staples like bread, milk, fresh fruit and vegetables. The price [...]
29. Better School Food NOW http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Now is time to fight for better school food Ann Cooper, Dana Woldow Sunday, August 24, 2008 “If you are what you eat, then I’m fast, cheap and easy.” When Alice Waters, of Chez Panisse fame, saw that line on a bumper sticker, she wondered, “Is this really what we want the destiny of our nation to be?” Waters, [...]
30. Farm to School in CO http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: A growing program Farm to School connects 9-R with local producers August 21, 2008 By Dale Rodebaugh \| Herald Staff Write A discussion three years ago among La Plata County residents who make their living off the land resulted in locally grown produce and meat in Durango 9-R School District breakfast and lunch menus. JERRY McBRIDE/Herald photos The Cole [...]
31. School Food boot Camp http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: School staff members attend culinary boot camp : Districts hope program will help transition to cooked-from-scratch meals JEREMY FOSTER, NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER August 18, 2008 7:12 AMThe ongoing move by county school districts to serve more healthful meals, even as they face higher food prices, was eased last week by a conference on school food [...]
32. Child Nutrition Reauthorization http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: City May Discontinue Kids Free Summer Lunch Program by Dana Woldow, 2008-08-12 For generations, students have complained about school food, calling it mystery meat. More recently, their elders have begun complaining too, as rates of childhood obesity and Type 2 diabetes reach new highs, and unhealthy school lunches are targeted as one cause. As Congress gets ready [...]
33. Chef Ann in the Telluride Magazine http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Where is She Now? Anne Cooper By Corinne Platt Rikkers Ann Cooper, a.k.a. the Renegade Lunch Lady, is on a crusade to persuade schools across the country to transform lunches into healthy, appetizing meals. Furthermore, she is teaching students about nutrition through hands-on work in gardens and a curriculum that covers the fundamentals of food. To the [...]
34. Katie Wilson’s Testimony http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Testimony Of the School Nutrition Association Education and Labor Committee House of Representatives July 9, 2008 Chairman Miller, Members of the Committee, we deeply appreciate this hearing and the opportunity to discuss how the school nutrition programs are being effected by the steep increase in food prices. I am Katie Wilson, PhD, the President- Elect of the School Nutrition Association [...]
35. Kids & Food as a Bi-Partisan Cause http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Found At: http://www.amconmag.com/2008/2008_06_30/article.html Food for Thought Renewing the culinary culture should be a conservative cause.by John Schwenkler Alice Waters might not seem like a conservative. A veteran of Berkeleys Free Speech Movement, who once cooked a $25,000-a-seat fundraising dinner for Bill Clinton, she eagerly compares her campaign for edible schoolyards"where children work with instructors to grow, prepare, [...]
36. School Food in France http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Beautiful account of a public school in France using fresh, local foods within 30 milesfor the cafeteria…make sure to listen to the audio version to enjoy the sounds of cooking and laughter. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9168776 9&sc=emaf Morning Edition, July 2, 2008 Chef Dominique Valadier starts each day at 5:30 a.m., just as the fish market opens in the southern [...]
37. Better School Food http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Schools are taking the mystery out of the meat they serve Some nutritionists are opting for organic dishes and generally healthier meals — and students are finding that they like them. By DeeDee Correll, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer June 23, 2008 CASTLE ROCK, COLO. — The precooked beef patties with the fake charcoal lines won’t be on [...]
38. LA School Food http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-food22-2008jun22,0,4 846063.story From the Los Angeles Times L.A. Unified’s new top chef trying to put the ‘wow’ in school lunches Mark Baida is taste-testing some new recipe ideas on students, hoping to change attitudes about cafeteria fare. By Mary MacVean Los Angeles Times Staff Writer June 22, 2008 Mark Baida was pleased with his latest taste test: lots of empty little black trays, [...]
39. The True Cost of Our Economic Policies http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: This was on NPR - should make us all think…… Finding the Flexibility to Survive by Brighton Earley http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9106589 0 Every Friday night the cashier at the Chevron gas station food mart on Eagle Rock Boulevard and Avenue 40 offers us a discount on all the leftover apples and bananas. To ensure the best selection possible, my mother and I pile into our [...]
40. Bad Policies Equal Bad Food & Bad Health http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: June 13, 2008 Op-Ed Columnist Bad Cow Disease By PAUL KRUGMAN Mary had a little lamb / And when she saw it sicken / She shipped it off to Packingtown / And now its labeled chicken. That little ditty famously summarized the message of The Jungle, Upton Sinclairs 1906 expos of conditions in Americas meat-packing industry. Sinclairs muckraking helped Theodore [...]
41. GMOs - They Shouldn’t Be Part of Our Food Supply http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Uncertain Peril By Claire Hope Cummings Claire Hope Cummings was an environmental lawyer for 20 years. An environmental journalist, she has also farmed in both California and Vietnam. This essay is an excerpt from her new book, Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds (Beacon Press, 2008) . On a frozen island near the North [...]
42. Regional & Seasonal Is a Health Mantra http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-rutten11-2008jun11 ,0,865799.column >From the Los Angeles Times Attack of the poison tomatoes The supply chain that ships foods to far-flung consumers is also good at spreading disease. Tim Rutten June 11, 2008 Aproper insalata Caprese is one of the jewels of Campania’s incomparable cuisine. All that’s required are ripe tomatoes just off the vine, fresh mozzarella di bufala, basil coaxed to aromatic fullness by the [...]
43. Try Gardening with your Kids http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: June 11, 2008 Banking on Gardening By MARIAN BURROS CASSANDRA FEELEY prefers organic ingredients, especially for her baby, but she finds it hard to manage on her husbands salary as an Army sergeant. So this year she did something she has wanted to do for a long time: she planted vegetables in her yard to save money. One organic [...]
44. Kids Really Will Eat Food http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: June 11, 2008 Scorpions for Breakfast and Snails for Dinner By MATTHEW FORNEY IN Beijing, where my family lives, I once returned home from a restaurant with a doggy bag full of deep-fried scorpions. The next morning, I poured them instead of imported raisin bran into my 11-year-old sons cereal bowl. I wanted to freak him out. The [...]
45. Food & School Lunch Prices http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: High food costs hit school lunch trays Rising food, fuel to drive up student meal prices by as much as 50 percent By Alex Johnson, Reporter MSNBC updated 6:57 a.m. ET, Mon., June. 9, 2008 When Americas schoolchildren return to class in the fall, they will learn a painful lesson in economics: Higher food and fuel prices are forcing [...]
46. School Lunch Must Be Mandatory http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Busy Students Get a New Required Course: Lunch By WINNIE HU BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y. " High school students in this well-to-do Westchester suburb pile on four, five, even six Advanced Placement classes to keep up with their friends. They track their grade-point averages to multiple decimal places and have longer rsums than their parents. But nearly half [...]
47. Obesity http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: The Childhood Obesity Numbers It is a sad commentary on the health of American youngsters that we are cheering a leveling off of childhood obesity rates. Far too many children and teenagers are still overweight. Tens of millions of young people will be at risk of illness and death unless this country commits to reversing, not [...]
48. School Lunch and Obesity http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Slimming Down Schools A la Carte Menus, Parents Often Thwart Cafeteria Makeovers By Lori Aratani Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, May 21, 2008; B01 On a tour through the cafeteria of Parklawn Elementary School in Alexandria, Penny McConnell points to the array of healthy foods on the day’s menu: low-fat yogurt, baked chicken legs, fresh broccoli and cauliflower. As food [...]
49. School Lunch Overhaul http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Boulder schools eye lunch overhaul District considers replacing processed meals with made-from-scratch food By Vanessa Miller (Contact) Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Photo by Paul Aiken From left to right, Josue Chavez, Itay Reuven and Dayne Ehmke, third-graders at Creekside Elementary School at Martin Park, eat lunch on the lawn in front of the school on Monday. The school district is [...]
50. Beef It’s Off the Menu http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Districts prefer the beef less traveled A movement to buy locally grown meat hits schools, and students are chowing the burgers. Is it worth the cost? By Bruce Finley The Denver Post Article Last Updated: 05/12/2008 10:35:16 AM MDT A growing movement that advocates buying and eating locally produced food is gaining momentum in Colorado high schools, where students [...]
51. Dan Barber’s GREAT Op Ed http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: May 11, 2008 Op-Ed Contributor Change We Can Stomach By DAN BARBER TARRYTOWN, N.Y. COOKING, like farming, for all its down-home community spirit, is essentially a solitary craft. But lately its feeling more like a lonely burden. Finding guilt-free food for our menus " food thats clean, green and humane " is about as easy as securing a housing loan. [...]
52. School Lunch http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Garden to Table: Making School Lunches Green May 1, 2008 By Kim Fuller The green thumbs showing up at Boulder area elementary schools this spring are not leftover from afternoons of finger painting. Hands are instead being submerged in soil, breaking apart the sedentary ground, [...]
53. Feeding Our Kids Cheap Food http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Beef recall spotlights real cost of cheap school lunches By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY When was the last time you spent 50 cents and got lunch? For millions of children who eat public school fare these days, it’s just about every day. School cafeterias get up to $2.47 a student from the U.S. government to serve lunch. After [...]
54. More Money For School Lunch http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: School kids feel the bite of high food prices Administrators are cutting corners and considering lay-offs to make up for the price spike in milk, eggs and flour. By Aaron Smith, CNNMoney.com staff writer Last Updated: May 5, 2008: 12:09 PM EDT NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Rising food prices are making it harder for schools to cook up ways [...]
55. Great Website http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Check this out….. http://www.thefoodtimes.com/home.html
56. Cheap School Food http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Beef recall spotlights real cost of cheap school lunches By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY When was the last time you spent 50 cents and got lunch? For millions of children who eat public school fare these days, it’s just about every day. School cafeterias get up to $2.47 a student from the U.S. government to serve lunch. After [...]
57. WA State - Fruits & Veggies http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Produce law just a start, educators say Susan Gordon; susan.gordon@thenewstribune.com Published: April 27th, 2008 08:26 PM Public schools would be allowed to pay more for Washington produce as part of a new law promoted as a way to improve child nutrition while supporting Evergreen State farmers. Its a tremendous opportunity for us. We just need to connect [...]
58. Farm Bill Redux http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Farm bill: making America fat and polluted, one subsidy at a time Let’s support sustainable farming, instead. By Christopher D. Cook from the April 23, 2008 edition San Francisco - At a time of soaring food prices, America’s grocery bill is about to balloon. Congress is staggering toward completion of a nearly $300 billion farm bill that upholds subsidies [...]
59. Climate Change http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: The Way We Live Now Why Bother? By MICHAEL POLLAN Why bother? That really is the big question facing us as individuals hoping to do something about climate change, and its not an easy one to answer. I dont know about you, but for me the most upsetting moment in An Inconvenient Truth came long after Al Gore [...]
60. School Lunch - Santa Barbara http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: School lunches just got cool BY ERIC LINDBERG DAILY SOUND STAFF WRITER Fresh food fanatics Ann Cooper and Kate Adamick unveiled their vision for the future of school meals at the Marjorie Luke Theatre yesterday evening in the third installment of the sCool Food Initiative events. Cooper, the director of nutritional services for Berkeley Unified School District, and Adamick, [...]
61. Eat Less Burgers http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Op-ed in Boston Globe: http://www.boston.com/ One less burger, one safer planet By Derrick Z. Jackson April 15, 2008 EARTH DAY is a week from today, so brace yourself for cuddly, hug-the-planet blubbering from the presidential candidates. John McCain will tell you we must be the “caretakers of creation” even though he received a zero rating in 2007 [...]
62. Schools and Obesity http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: School nutrition policy can prevent obesity By Amy Norton NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Philadelphia schools that cut out soda, revamped snack selections and took other measures to prevent childhood obesity were able to halve the odds of students becoming overweight by sixth grade, a study has found. Among fourth-graders at five schools that instituted the new nutrition [...]
63. Government Policies Equal Unhealthy Food for Our Children http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I hope this article brings to light the importance of raising both the federal and state reimbursement rates. Its an absolute travesty that school districts are struggling to make ends meet and being forced to feed our children highly processed unhealthy food. Schools Get A Lesson in Lunch Line Economics Food Costs Unravel Nutrition Initiatives By Maria Glod Washington [...]
64. Each One of Us - Can Really Make a Difference http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: My good friend Beth Collins made this happen - it’s truly a testament — to the positive difference we each can make. Tools for Change " One Letter Leads to Legislation In March at the first Farm to School Conference held in the state of Michigan the gap between the way wed like our schools to reflect [...]
65. Breakfast Really Is Important http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: One more reason why we chould have a national mandate for Universal Breakfast. Skipping Cereal and Eggs, and Packing on Pounds By NICHOLAS BAKALAR Researchers have found evidence that Mom was right: breakfast may really be the most important meal of all. A new study reports that the more often adolescents eat breakfast, the less likely they are [...]
66. Food and Feds http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: This is a great read - Tom’s thoughts are right on point!! Kitchen-Table IssuesAs the feds bail out Wall Street, here’s a food-related fix for Main StreetBy Tom Philpott 21 Mar 2008 “The current financial crisis in the U.S. is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second [...]
67. School Lunch - Santa Barbara http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Spork It OverChecking Out the Quality of School Lunches By Starshine Roshell Thursday, March 20, 2008Its just before noon and Im casing the school cafeteria. Empty-bellied kindergartners stand at the Garden Bar with giant silver tongs in their yea-big hands. They stare at the cucumber, cauliflower and celery bins curiously"the way youd expect them to look at [...]
68. Farm to School For All http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Shrinking Markets in Our Own Backyard - Michigan Department of Education Limiting Purchase of Michigan Grown Product in Schools? Wednesday March 12th at the Hagerty Center at Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City, Michigan, Michigan Land Use Institute hosted a sold out conference called Farm to School: Healthy Kids, Thriving Farms. Over 330 attendees from [...]
69. Chef Ann’s Podcast - An Evening with Morgan Spurlock & Marion Nestle http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (audio/mpeg, 13.76Mb) Description: Another new podcast to listen to… “An Evening with Morgan Spurlock & Marion Nestle” Download An Evening with Morgan Spurlock & Marion Nestle
70. School Lunch - Students Go Hungry http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Free Lunch Isnt Cool, So Some Students Go Hungry By CAROL POGASH SAN FRANCISCO " Although Francisco Velazquez, a 14-year-old freshman with spiky hair and sunglasses, qualifies for a free lunch at Balboa High School here, he was not eating. He scanned the picnic table full of his friends in a school courtyard one day a few [...]
71. Bad Beef in Schools http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: School Lunch at Risk for Years Weak Safety Standards Reported by Auditors As Far Back as 2003 By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON March 3, 2008; Page A6 The U.S. Agriculture Department has for years had problems ensuring that beef supplied to the national school-lunch program meets food-safety standards, federal auditors’ reports show, suggesting more widespread problems than those that triggered the biggest food [...]
72. School Lunch http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: http://www.naturalnews.com/022740.html School Lunch in the Era of Processed Food: To Buy or Not to Buy? (NaturalNews) This should not even be a question for most parents. But, unfortunately it is. When asked what she thought of the school lunch program in public schools, Camele McIntosh, certified holistic health practitioner and store manager for Harvest Health Foods in [...]
73. USDA Beef Recall: Like Calves to the Slaughter http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: LIKE CALVES TO THE SLAUGHTER By Ann Cooper and Kate Adamick On Sunday, the USDA took action to force the recall of 143 million pounds of beef dating back two years — the largest beef recall in our countrys history. More than 25% of the recalled beef was distributed free of charge through the USDAs commodity food [...]
74. The USDA Isn’t Protecting Our Children http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: As far as I’m concerned, the USDA is responsible for the fact that approximately 37 million pounds of potentially tainted beef was fed to our children. This is part of the reason why the farm bill and the commodity program needs to be over-hauled. As well, I believe that over-sight of the National [...]
75. Chef Ann’s Podcast - USDA Commodity Beef Products http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (audio/mpeg, 4.13Mb) Description: In this podcast, Chef Ann and Chef Kate discuss USDA commodity beef products in the National School Lunch Program. Download USDA Commodity Beef Products
76. Berkeley School’s Breakfast Program http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: check this out: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/education& id=5942053
77. Lean funds keep school food fatty http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Lean funds keep school food fatty No state money plus outdated standards make it tough for districts to supply meals that are healthy, and even farm-rich Oregon has problems using local produce Sunday, February 03, 2008 SCOTT LEARN and BETSY HAMMOND The Oregonian Oregon’s school nutrition leaders are trying to put more fresh foods in students’ lunches, rely less on high-fat foods and [...]
78. Antibiotics & Our Meat http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Fight to curtail antibiotics in animal feed Sabin Russell, Chronicle Medical Writer Monday, January 28, 2008 Consumer advocates have been campaigning for years to curb the use of antibiotics in agriculture, citing studies that show that 70 percent of all U.S. antibiotics are administered in low doses - not to treat disease, but to promote the growth of [...]
79. Farm to School in WA http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: January 28, 2008 Bill aims to put more farm-fresh foods on school lunch menus By JENNIFER LANGSTON P-I REPORTER Kia Kozun knew that lugging 40-pound boxes of vegetables single-handedly from a Sequim farm to a friend’s bistro wasn’t entirely sustainable. For more on the farm-to-school issue, read our special report “Farmed Out”. The outreach manager for Nash’s Organic Produce wanted [...]
80. Eat Less Meat!! http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: This is a great article from www.nytimes.com Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler By MARK BITTMAN A SEA change in the consumption of a resource that Americans take for granted may be in store " something cheap, plentiful, widely enjoyed and a part of daily life. And it isnt oil. Its meat. The two commodities share a great deal: Like oil, meat [...]
81. Eat Local http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Even in Winter, Eat Local " Its Delicious One of the keys to eating a healthy diet is eating regionally and seasonally as much as possible. The best choice is most often the one closest to home. Eating food from within your 100-mile foodshed will be the most nutritious and flavorful because it is picked closer [...]
82. Cloned Animals - delicious???? http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Editorial Observer www.nytimes.com Closing the Barn Door After the Cows Have Gotten Out By VERLYN KLINKENBORG Last week, the Food and Drug Administration cleared the way for the eventual sale of meat and dairy products from cloned animals, saying, in effect, that consumers face no health risks from them. The next day, the Department of Agriculture asked farmers [...]
83. School Gardens http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Growing minds and bodies Ryan Holeywell January 18, 2008 - 6:38PM DONNA " Sixth-grade girls have fallen in love with worms at the IDEA College Preparatory charter school. While little girls and worms are a seemingly odd couple, school district officials say the combination makes sense. The worms help produce compost for the schools garden, and teachers use the [...]
84. In Defense of Food http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I just finished Michael Pollan’s new book: In Defense of Food: an Eater’s Manifesto The soul of the book is summed up by the “tag-line” on the cover: “Eat Food, Not Much, Mostly Plants” I loved the book & you should all buy & read it. Michael is a wonderful story teller & makes the most complex [...]
85. Farm to School http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/346791_farmtoschool10.ht ml Bill aims to put local foods on school lunch menus Last updated January 9, 2008 11:33 p.m. PT By JENNIFER LANGSTON, P-I REPORTER Kia Kozun knew that lugging 40-pound boxes of vegetables single-handedly from a Sequim farm to a friend’s bistro wasn’t entirely sustainable. The outreach manager for Nash’s Organic Produce wanted to sell to school cafeterias. For [...]
86. Cooking and Dining with Chef Ann and Chef Kate http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (audio/mpeg, 6.22Mb) Description: Another new podcast to listen to… Chef Ann and Chef Kate discuss the simplicity and pleasure of cooking and dining. Download Cooking and Dining with Chef Ann and Chef Kate
87. Chef Ann on CNN.Com http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Renegade lunch lady saving kids’ lives, one plate at a time Story Highlights Chef, school nutrition chief Ann Cooper hopes to change the way America’s kids eat Her Berkeley, California, schools serve fruit, salad bar daily Her “meal wheel” helps kids understand what should be on their plates daily By Fran Fifis CNN (CNN) — Ann Cooper is on a one-woman whirlwind [...]
88. Hot Lunch Programs Should be Reviewed http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Editorial: Review all school food for nutritional value Jan 08, 2008 @ 11:48 PM The Herald-Dispatch Amid concerns about problems with obesity and dental health among West Virginia schoolchildren, the Legislature will consider a new law to ban soft drinks and sugary snacks from all West Virginia schools. According to The Associated Press, about 20 counties have similar, voluntary [...]
89. Vanishing Bees http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: VANISHING OF THE BEES Wow! We receive a lot of submissions of that would like their work to be featured in Organic Bytes, but this is honestly one of the best trailers we’ve seen in a while. As you’ve probably read about previously in Organic Bytes, vast numbers of bees are literally disappearing all around the [...]
90. Two Angry Moms http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Two Angry Moms:The Genesis Of The Movie And The Movement Posted January 4, 2008 \| 12:12 PM (EST) When I set out to make a documentary on school food several years ago, I was advised to steer clear of involvement in my own school district. Why? Because, my advisors advised, I would get so bogged down in [...]
91. Kids Getting Excercise at School http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: www.baltimoresun.com Kids take steps to become healthy To promote healthy living, a program rewards youngsters who, over time, cover the distance of a marathon By Meredith Cohn, Sun reporter - January 3, 2008 A few rounds in the gym. A jog to school. A lap around a lake. With a few hundred steps here and a few hundred steps there, [...]
92. Students: Gardening & Nutrition http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Posted on Tue, Jan. 01, 2008 BY ANA VECIANA-SUAREZ It’s a windy, overcast morning better spent in cozy confines, but the second-graders in Maren Roedenbeck’s class are busy digging holes in a raised soil bed at Carlos Finlay Elementary in West Miami-Dade. With their garden gloves and spades they look — and perhaps even sound — like [...]
93. Medford Schools Hire Chef http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Medford chef to redo lunch By Eric Moskowitz, Globe Staff \| December 30, 2007 It is time to rethink school lunch in Medford, where the public schools will soon have a professional chef. Gone are the days when many of Medford’s schools did not have kitchens and when hot lunch meant a foil-wrapped mystery that had [...]
94. School Food - Chicago http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: www.chicagotribune.com MINDING YOUR BUSINESS Putting heat on school menus Entrepreneurs focus on boosting healthy lunch, snack choices By Ann Meyer Special to the Tribune - December 31, 2007 Fighting childhood obesity has become a pet cause for Susan and Robert Rogers and their Hanover Park-based family-owned business, School Health Corp., a supplier to school nurses and athletic trainers. “It drives me crazy [...]
95. School Lunch - Boulder chater School http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Summit lunches climb food pyramid School breaks away from district lunch program By Amy Bounds Camera Staff Writer Monday, December 31, 2007 Photo by Marty Caivano Summit Middle School students Bryn Newell, left, and Emily Sun stand in line to pay for their hot lunch, which includes all-natural barbecued chicken, organic green beans and potatoes. Summit, a Boulder charter school, [...]
96. Fast Food Outlets Built Around Schools http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Schools around the country are focusing on serving more healthful food to students to combat childhood obesity. But what about the food served near the schools? In one of the largest studies of its kind, researchers from the University of Illinois have mapped out the locations of more than 31,000 middle schools and high schools and [...]
97. Healthy Moms = Healthy Kids http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-1221bodyworksdec21,1,254 4513.story chicagotribune.com Healthy relationships Program teaches good food and exercise habits to the moms and caregivers of girls By Jody Temkin Special to the Tribune December 21, 2007 The 10 women gathered around a table at Mason Elementary School in North Lawndale watched in mock horror as Sara Whalin counted out the teaspoons of sugar in a 20-ounce bottle of soda. Whalin [...]
98. Kids Will Eat Healthy Food http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: By Ryan Blitstein \| 12.17.2007 \| 10:13 AM (UTC) http://www.miller-mccune.com/main/article/11 It may cost incrementally more, but banishing poor food choices from school lunches can be achieved, two new studies suggest. School cafeteria food may be hazardous to your children’s health, but a pair of University of Minnesota studies show that cooking nutritious meals, and convincing children to eat [...]
99. Food Factories http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: The Way We Live Now Our Decrepit Food Factories By MICHAEL POLLAN www.nytimes.com The word sustainability has gotten such a workout lately that the whole concept is in danger of floating away on a sea of inoffensiveness. Everybody, it seems, is for it whatever it means. On a recent visit to a land-grant universitys spanking-new sustainability institute, I asked [...]
100. Beyond the Farmbill from the Grist http://www.chefann.com/blog/?p... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: After many legislative hiccups along the way, Congress is rapidly deciding the fate of America’s food supply: what’s grown, how it’s produced and by whom, and how that food will affect our health and the planet. The roughly $288 billion Farm Bill, covering everything from urban nutrition and food stamp programs to soil conservation and [...]