Newly Poor Swell Lines at Food Banks: Another week, another story about the growing need for food. This piece highlights the contradictions at food banks in affluent areas, where a former software engineer and a woman with a Vera Bradley handbag load up on lentils and humility.  Kathleen DiChiara, executive director of Community FoodBank of New Jersey says:

“If one of our richest counties has people signing up for food stamps who have never signed up before, that indicates the depth of this problem with the lack of food.”

Fighting Poverty in the Stimulus: In this useful summary, the Center for American Progress breaks the $787 billion dollar stimulus package down into anti-poverty terms:  tax relief, aid to low-income Americans, and help to the unemployed. The Jew and The Carrot and the New York Times also weigh in about how to use the stimulus money to improve school lunches.

A Video Welcome: Check out CKWLU’s Jenny Sproul, CKP’s first YouTube celebrity, as she moves CKP into Web 2.0 territory.

Bon Appétit weighs in on waste, consumption: This article gives us at CKP some serious food for thought for the weekend. Seattle University now uses ValueWaste system to minimize their kitchen waste. What would happen to CKP if there was no food waste? Any ideas?

A Cooking Show: When you’re done with all that deep thought, turn your brain off. Play. (Thanks to this week’s guest blogger Tim at CKSLU for the link.)

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