Campus Kitchen students hold a range of interests: we’ve met marketing majors, public health students, political science junkies, and literature gurus. After that initial Campus Kitchen volunteer cooking shift, there’s one more interest that reverberates across all Campus Kitchen volunteers: a passion for, or interest in, food. It’s something about suiting up in hairnets, aprons, [...]
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Archive for August, 2010
Win an Insulated Bag for your Campus Kitchen
Posted in August 30th, 2010
by Jasmine Touton in Kitchen Advice
Looking to add an insulated bag to your Campus Kitchen? Hoping to expand meal deliveries? A new contest open to all members of The Campus Kitchens Project could provide you the extra space needed to make delivery shifts easier and more organized. In an effort to gather up-to-date volunteer email lists from the 25 Campus [...]
Service-Learning Grant Opportunity for Campus Kitchens
Posted in August 26th, 2010
Campus Kitchens participate in some aspect of service-learning every day – and most of them either are housed on a public school campus or somehow work with a public school through a community partnership. As State Farm and Youth Serve America announced today, these Campus Kitchens are also eligible for a $1,000 grant to complete [...]
Savor Summer Bounties: Its Pickle Time!
Posted in August 25th, 2010
The Story: On sandwiches, as a side dish or straight out of the jar, pickles are a fun and easy thing to make. Pickling was invented at the dawn of civilization in Mesopotamia. It was – and still is – a great way to preserve for out-of-season consumption, and important to the many cultures that [...]
Hungry for Justice: A Waco, Texas, Pay-what-you-can Cafe
Posted in August 24th, 2010
As Campus Kitchens and other thought-leaders in the poverty community gear up for Hungry for Justice: Social, Economic, Environmental – a collaboration between Baylor University’s Poverty Summit and The Campus Kitchens Project – one café quietly continues to feed the Waco, Texas residents and build community, one plate of food at a time. Gospel Café [...]
A New Kind of Wedding Favor: Portable Burners for Campus Kitchens
Posted in August 23rd, 2010
Some people give bubbles and CDs full of love songs, but in place of a wedding favor for guests at their June 5 wedding, Melissa Caron and Matt Medeiros gave something to the Lexington, Va. community that would keep on giving. The couple chose to replace a trinket for dozens of wedding guests with eight [...]
VIDEO: The Campus Kitchen at Gettysburg College Ten Ton Event
Posted in August 20th, 2010
As Campus Kitchen students prepare their whisks for a new year of cooking up some service, we wanted to share some footage of a fabulous event the Campus Kitchen at Gettysburg College put on last year to celebrate reaching 10,000 meals served and 20,000 pounds of food recovered. The video highlights the “10 Ton Relay”, [...]
Schedule for Campus Kitchen Annual Conference and Baylor Poverty Summit
Posted in August 19th, 2010
With under two months to go to Hungry for Justice: Social, Economic Environmental (a joint effort by Baylor University’s Poverty Summit and The Campus Kitchens Project Conference), many participants are making arrangements to arrive in Waco, Texas for the poverty event, October 8 – 10. As we clarify details of the conference, we will post [...]
Savor Summer Bounties: Got Cabbage? Make Sauerkraut!
Posted in August 18th, 2010
The Story: Think sauerkraut, and you might dredge up images of bratwurst or hot dogs recently dressed from Frank’s can or a Bubbie’s Jar. But there’s more to sauerkraut then our current popular culture definition – and two good reasons why you might want to consider creating your own. First, it’s healthy. The sauerkraut fermentation [...]
The Campus Kitchen at University of Virginia Reaps the Benefits of Peach Picking
Posted in August 17th, 2010
Five members of the Campus Kitchen at the University of Virginia (CKUVA) went gleaning with DC Central Kitchen to round out summer operations as students returned to Campus, and they saw potential in the peaches. The peaches were Red Haven Yellow Freestones, and set to peak in late July to early August, so by August [...]
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Blogroll
- Campus Kitchen at Gettysburg College - This is your source for all things CKGC.
- Campus Kitchen at the College of William and Mary
- Campus Kitchen at University of Florida
- Civil Eats - Supporting development and dialog among local and national leaders about the American food system, and its effects abroad.
- CKP’s Flickr page - Photos from the hallowed halls of CKP
- Farm to Table: the Emerging American Model - A collaborative journalistic forum aimed at strengthening the sustainable and local foods community
- First Helping - The Outreach Program of DCCK, their stories and insights into the streets of DC
- Good Food Jobs - A gastro-job search tool, designed to link people looking for meaningful food work with the businesses that need their energy, enthusiasm and intellect.
- Growing Power - Growing Power is a national nonprofit organization and land trust supporting people from diverse backgrounds, and the environments in which they live, by helping to provide equal access to healthy, high-quality, safe and affordable food for people in all
- Robert Egger’s Piece of Mind - DC Central Kitchen founder and CEO, and author of Begging For Change, winner of the 2004-2005 Terry McAdam Book Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Advancement of Nonprofit Management, blogs about the Kitchen, CKP, and the changing nonprofit sector.
- Slow Food on Campus - Our friends at Slow Food on Campus promote food that’s good, clean, and fair
- Sodexo USA - Our partners at Sodexo USA have entered the blogosphere!
- Stocks, Sauces, and Soul - This blog documents the class experiences of the Culinary Job Training Students at the DC Central Kitchen.
- The Campus Kitchen at Wake Forest University - The web version of Wake Forest University’s Campus Kitchen
- V3 Campaign - Join the movement to strengthen the nonprofit sector led by Robert Egger, founder and president of DC Central Kitchen.
- W&L Campus Kitchens Project - Find out the latest about the Campus Kitchen at Washington and Lee University.
- Wasted Food - Inspired by a volunteer shift at the DC Central Kitchen, Jonathan Bloom started researching and writing about wasted food in America. His blog is chock-full of information and inspiration for those of us who recycle food.