Sodexo pledges to help fight childhood obesity: The dining services company just announced that through their work with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, they’ve come up with a new set of guidelines for the 2.8 million school lunches they provide each day.
Bucket gardens will offer ‘food security’ to needy families in Oswego County: The Food Bank of Central New York (the primary supplier for the food pantry where I volunteered an undergraduate!) is launching a Garden in a Bucket program, distributing tomato plants in bucket pots to families in need. Not only will the program show people how to grow their own food, but it will show them how delightful and empowering it can be.
Since we posted the link a couple of weeks back to a story called Let Them Eat Arugula, there’s been considerable backlash in the blogosphere. I like the way Kathryn Baer, Poverty and Policy blogger, puts it:
As everyone should know by now, there are significant long-term social and economic costs associated with unhealthful diets–obesity, related chronic health problems, unemployment, etc. So cutting corners on food assistance will ratchet up the costs of other services.
High school students carve out a future in the culinary arts: The Slow Food USA blog this week featured this interview with the directors of the new movie Pressure Cooker, which follows three high school students from northeast Philadelphia as they try to make it through Mrs. Stephensen’s culinary arts curriculum and out of the circumstances in their neighborhoods. Jennifer Grausman identifies one of the many benefits of working with food for the students:
Some students develop a passion for food and cooking, some gain respect and understanding for the products used in the kitchen, and many learn about nutrition as they broaden their palate and modify their eating habits.
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