1.15.10: Pressure Canning Tomato Sauce Owning a pressure canner is your gateway to eating fresh and local, all year round. It is a safe, easy, and fun way to save those bountiful summer harvests and to make sure you’ve always got something in your Campus Kitchen pantry. Here, I will provide basic, step-by-step instructions for [...]
CKP National Blog
Resources and Updates on Our National Initiatives
Read, then digest: Obesity, bucket, backlash
Posted in May 29th, 2009
by Liz Whitehurst in
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 [...]
CKUNK Saturdays at the Farmer’s Market
Posted in May 18th, 2009
by Liz Whitehurst in
Each Saturday morning in Kearney, Nebraska, the parking lot of a Kmart becomes a bustling, smiling, fresh food oasis as local farmers arrive to sell their goods to their community. The coordinators of the Campus Kitchen at the University of Nebraska-Kearney are there each week, collecting the leftovers and accepting donations from producers and consumers alike. ”Kearney [...]
Read, then digest: shelter controversy, downward mobility and Michelle Obama
Posted in May 15th, 2009
by Liz Whitehurst in
Helping the hungry eat well: Two of our favorite blogs, Beyond Bread and Change.org’s Sustainable Food blog, came together this week in a post that hits on some of my favorite things to talk about: cooking; the connection between hunger, obesity and malnutrition; food deserts; and last but never least, hummus. Share on Facebook
Today’s Waco, but tomorrow’s Paris: CKBU’s culinary artist shares his passion
Posted in May 7th, 2009
by Liz Whitehurst in
On the opening day of the Campus Kitchen at Baylor University, Andrew Woolridge was in charge. “That first day,” he said. ”We had no idea what we were going to do.” He didn’t know what the kitchen would be like, what food was available, or that it would all be frozen. He did know that he had [...]
Guest blog: Alt proteins make for cheap eats
Posted in March 24th, 2009
by Liz Whitehurst in
Guest blogger and Eastern Region Program Director Ariel Gold talks about how eating less meat can mean saving more dollars. And with CKP’s new Alternative Proteins Cookbook, it’ll taste great,too! The talking heads on all of the news network shows have been throwing out ominous economic buzzwords. You don’t need to turn on a TV [...]