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  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Chefs and parents plot a lunch revolution
  • Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:24:27 -0700

Ya. This is pretty neat.

---- Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com> wrote:
> During 15 years of substitute teaching, I have eaten in the school
> cafeteria only 2 times. I take my lunch. 
>  
> This blows my mind.
>  
> Ken Hargesheimer
>
> --- On Sat, 7/24/10, Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:
>
>
> From: Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>
> Subject: [Livingontheland] Chefs and parents plot a lunch revolution
> To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Saturday, July 24, 2010, 11:02 PM
>
>
>
> Chefs and parents plot a lunch revolution at one D.C. public school
> by Ed Bruske 21 Jul 2010 4:00 AM
> http://www.grist.org/article/food-chefs-and-parents-plot-lunch-revolution-at-D.C.-public-school/
>
> A group of prominent Washington, D.C.-area restaurant chefs has volunteered
> to introduce a novel concept in school-food service to one Capitol Hill
> elementary school: collaborating with parents to take over kitchen
> operations on a nonprofit basis, replacing the prepackaged, reheated
> factory meals that Tyler Elementary kids currently eat with food cooked
> from scratch, served on real plates with real cutlery.
>
> Led by Cathal Armstrong, chef and owner of Restaurant Eve in Alexandria,
> Va., the group would undo the historically knotty issue of school food
> finances by putting parents to work in the cafeteria as voluteers, and
> using the savings in labor to buy better food, much of it from local
> growers. The proposal has been approved by D.C. Public Schools' food
> services division but is still being reviewed by the procurement division
> -- meaning much paperwork, red tape, and potential snags remain between now
> and August 23, when classes resume.
>
> Cathal Armstrong on a visit to TylerChef Cathal Armstrong on a recent visit
> to TylerArmstrong, who was a 2009 James Beard nominee for "Best
> Mid-Atlantic Chef," is an outspoken advocate of fresh, local foods. He sits
> on the board of Fresh Farm Markets, which operates several farmers markets
> in the city. His involvement with Tyler Elementary stems from a meeting
> last year with White House assistant chef and food advisory Sam Kass, whose
> title was recently upgrade to senior policy adviser For Healthy Food
> Initiatives. This appears to be the first time that First Lady Michelle
> Obama's anti-obesity campaign has extended its reach into a school food
> service operation.
>
>
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