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Review: Eat Like a Rainbow (Win a Copy)
Singer-songwriter (and The Jew & The Carrot contributor) Jay Mankita recently teamed up with The NY Coalition for Healthy School Food to create Eat Like a Rainbow – a “rocking, funky, danceable...
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Food Fights! The Edible Schoolyard
Thanks to Rebecca Bloomfield for this guest post. Rebecca is an alumni of the Adamah program and a garden teacher at The Edible Schoolyard, a program of the Chez Panisse Foundation and founded by...
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Institutional Food – How Green is Your Synagogue?
Deciding what to eat for lunch can be a challenge – but deciding what hundreds (or thousands) of other people should eat for lunch is decidedly harder. But such is the charge for the many hospitals,...
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Food Corps for America?
If Anna Lappe (of the Small Planet Institute) had one minute in an elevator with Barack Obama she’d ask him to start a Food Corps, modeled after the Peace Corps to “support a generation of young...
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Umami and its malcontents
Umami is so hot right now. Barbara Kingsolver talked about it in her food movement tome “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle”, NPR covered it, it’s been scientifically proven, and now it’s basis of a new...
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Reducing Comes First
At Otto Petersen Elementary Schoolin Scappoose, Oregon, the fourth and sixth graders held a “Waste War” in February to see who could have the least amount of food waste. Here are four ways Otto...
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Gender Bending: Yeshivah Home Ec!
How do these bochers hold up in the kitchen? A May 6th piece in the Jewish Week covers a delicious new elective being offered at the all-boys Modern Orthodox Torah Academy of Bergen County…Cooking! An...
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Interested in School Food Updates?
Then check out School Lunch Talk, a blog that focuses on news in school food from the United States and around the world. Written by Ann Cooper, director of nutrition services for the Berkeley United...
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Confessions of a College Health Nut
About a month ago I received an assignment for my business writing course. We had to compose a letter as an angry parent and PTA member, protesting a hypothetical high school’s deal with a well-known...
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Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize Wish – Teach Every Child About Food from David Bryfman on Vimeo. David Bryfman, currently the Director of the New Center for Collaborative Leadership at the Board of Jewish...
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