We cooked. We fed. We conquered. The family of 20 campus kitchens that make up The Campus Kitchens Project saw a lot of highs and lows, cabbage and carrots, PB&J’s and pastas, tomatoes and turkeys in 2009. The year of an ill economy, swine flue epidemic, and a healthcare overhaul also marked a period of [...]
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You Could Get $10,000 for your Hunger Relief Work
Posted in December 29th, 2009
by Jasmine Touton in
Show up every morning to open the kitchen and organize volunteers? Have your car keys ready at a moment’s notice if a restaurant wants to donate food? Stack and count donated cans in your free time? You could be eligible to win $5000 for school, and $5000 for hunger relief. Sodexo food service company – [...]
What to Do with Leftover Turkeys, and a Burning Freezer Question.
Posted in December 23rd, 2009
by Jasmine Touton in
What to do with 25 extra frozen turkeys when campuses practically shut down over the holidays? Student leaders of the Campus Kitchen at Gettysburg College found themselves in this situation after they were unable to serve all of the turkeys donated for their Turkeypalooza feast (they received 35 donated turkeys in total). The staff of [...]
CK Blogfiles: Dear CKJHU Leaders, Helpers, Volunteers, and Friends
Posted in December 21st, 2009
by Jasmine Touton in
Every Monday, we’ll try to get a first-person account or post from one of our individual campus kitchen blogs featured on the national blog. Jessica Zha, Campus Kitchen Coordinator at Johns Hopkins University, just re-started her kitchen’s blog presence to end out the semester. Read what CKJHU did this semester, at a glance: Dear CKJHU [...]
“Sometimes starting new projects is like getting fifty cats to walk down the street together…” School Spotlight: Saint Andrew’s Episcopal High School
Posted in December 18th, 2009
“Sometimes starting new projects is like getting fifty cats to walk down the street together…” says Charles James, campus kitchen coordinator at St. Andrew’s in Potomac, Md. James is working to make St. Andrew’s our third high school-based Campus Kitchen while simultaneously coordinating a service project for MLK Day. “St. Andrew’s is the type of [...]
The New Campus Kitchen at Wash. U in St. Louis Gets in the Groove
Posted in December 17th, 2009
by Jasmine Touton in
In early November, Washington University in St. Louis students grooved to the beat of the St. Louis Area Dance Marathon fundraiser, an event where students, student groups, and members of the community come together, dance their socks off for 12 hours, and earn money for Children’s Miracle Network. The group behind what will soon become [...]
Campus Kitchen Blizzard Survival Techniques from CKUWEC
Posted in December 14th, 2009
by Jasmine Touton in
As winter sets in, cold weather campus kitchens are preparing to run cooking and delivery shifts through the iciest days of winter. Ashley McCarthy and other volunteers of the Campus Kitchen at Univeresity of Wisconsin Eau Claire learned some important lessons about planning and quick thinking when wintry conditions become dangerous for volunteers. Read Ashley’s [...]
Easy Pumpkin Cookie Recipe for Holiday Meals
Posted in December 9th, 2009
by Jasmine Touton in
As much as we all like eating a slice of a custardy, smooth pumpkin pie, practicality of transport poses a problem. That’s where pumpkin cookies come in. This Turkeypalooza, a few campus kitchens took cues from each other and swapped baking sheets for pie tins. The result: easy to make, bake, and take pumpkin cookies [...]
Pavo is Spanish for Turkey: Turkeypalooza, by the Numbers
Posted in December 4th, 2009
by Jasmine Touton in
Campus Kitchens across the nation were stuffed with activity this Thanksgiving for the annual Turkeypalooza project, a hunger relief initiative mobilizing kitchens to feed thousands on Turkey Day. The Campus Kitchen at St. Louis University tacked on seven extra cooking shifts to roast 20 whole turkeys, which, when coupled with 20 precooked turkey breasts, served [...]
A Look at Wake Forest University’s Campus Kitchen, and their Locally-sourced Food Efforts
Posted in December 2nd, 2009
by Jasmine Touton in
What’s better than gathering 75 volunteers to deliver over 200 pounds of turkey on Thanksgiving? Doing it all using turkeys local to Winston-Salem, N.C., where the Campus Kitchen at Wake Forest University assists dozen of agencies with hunger relief. Wake Forest Campus Kitchen coordinator Shelley Graves says the group secured sponsorships of turkeys to purchase [...]