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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 21st, Sunny Young from the Food Family Farming Foundation team had the incredible experience of visiting New York for the annual TedX Manhattan conference. Here are her thoughts from the conference: The day was non-stop foodie heaven. Amazing speaker after amazing speaker took the stage to present their ideas, projects, and share their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 at the Food Family Farming Foundation and Beyond!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 5, 2011Dear Friends of the Food Family Farming Foundation , &#160; December 6th, is Colorado Gives Day. Because F3 is based in Boulder, we have the opportunity to increase the value of each dollar raised through incentive dollars offered viaGiving First . Please help us continue to offer free resources and tools to everyone interested in improving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress to Kids: Drop Dead!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2294</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Congress puts corporate profits over kids&#8217; health Congress to Kids: Drop Dead!  Reposted with permission By: Ed Bruske aka The Slow Cook Amid all the hysteria over pizza and potatoes this week the mainstream media missed the real story behind the USDA&#8217;s embattled school nutrition guidelines by half and mangled the other half badly. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Processed Food Industry Shows USDA Who&#8217;s Boss in the Cafeteria</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2290</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Processed Food Industry Shows USDA Who&#8217;s Boss in the Cafeteria  photo: Kids&#8217; all-time favorite food: pizza Reposted with permission By Ed Bruske First it was potatoes. Now it&#8217;s pizza. The processed food industry is reaching out to its friends in Congress to scuttle new USDA guidelines that were supposed to make school meals healthier. Politico reports that House [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chef Ann does a Boulder TedX Talk! Watch here:</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2285</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.tedxboulder.com/chef-ann-cooper-changing-the-way-we-feed-our-children/]]></description>
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		<title>Chef Ann Cooper at Berkeley</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
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		<title>Lunch Lessons: Back to School 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reposted with permission from: Maria&#8217;s Farm Country Kitchen Lunch Lessons: Back to School 2011 by guest blogger Ann Cooper Not a day goes by without the media addressing America’s growing obesity crisis, and lately the discussion has settled on our children. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported that if American children don’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The K Street diet is bad for America</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2270</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The K Street diet is bad for America Reposted with permission: By Margo G. Wootan The House of Representatives recently passed an Agriculture appropriations bill for fiscal year 2012. It includes several provisions that would affect Americans’ diets, but these nutrition provisions are not what the doctor ordered. They are the result of K Street [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improving School Food: Do It Now or Pay the Price Later</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2266</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read this from the Environmental Working Group! Will healthy school food last under current conditions??? http://www.ewg.org/agmag/2011/06/improving-school-food-do-it-now-or-pay-the-price-later/]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Healthy Change: An eye-opening discussion of the current food system, how it’s affecting our health, and what we can do about it</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2258</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this great event coming up tomorrow in Denver! Click here to see the invitation!: CreatingHealthyChange_lowres]]></description>
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		<title>The Farm Dinner Menu is Out!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 21:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come join us in Boulder on Wednesday, June 8th!]]></description>
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		<title>Farm Dinner 2011 to Support the School Food Project in Boulder, CO!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2251</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 23:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of year again to join together in celebration and generosity to help support the School Food Project in Boulder, CO! If you are in the area on June 8th &#8211; please join us! Here is a link to ticket sales: https://schoolfood.giveo.com/ Hope to see you there! -TheLunchBox.org Crew]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Food Is Making Our Kids Sick (and How to Take Charge)</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2247</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 20:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Chef Ann Cooper From: www.huffingtonpost.com Bad Food Is Making Our Kids Sick (and How to Take Charge) I never imagined myself cooking for kids. I spent most of my first three decades as a chef, not knowing or caring what kids ate, and not really wanting to feed them. In fact, as a restaurant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Fork it Over for Food Gardens!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2244</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 16:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this guest blog post from Roger Doiron of Kitchen Gardeners International: (watch here!  http://youtu.be/C72it8Ul0-g) This spring represents the second anniversary of the digging of the White House kitchen garden. As director of the nonprofit, Kitchen Gardeners International (KGI), I was delighted to be part of the large and diverse movement of people and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Dairy Puts Big Scare Into Parents to Push Chocolate Milk&#8211;But for How Long?</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2240</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Dairy Puts Big Scare Into Parents to Push Chocolate Milk&#8211;But for How Long? Reposted with permission: By Ed Bruske aka The Slow Cook Los Angeles schools are prepared to announce they will no longer serve flavored milk beginning in the fall, according to a report yesterday in the Los Angeles Times. Superintendent John Deasy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From OnEarth.org: A Lunch Lady Serves up Healthy Schools, Starting in the Cafeteria</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2237</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Ann Cooper I never imagined myself cooking for kids. I spent most of my first three decades as a chef, not knowing or caring what kids ate, and not really wanting to feed them. In fact, as a restaurant chef, my worst nightmare was the host coming into the kitchen on a Saturday night, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great News!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to our very own Chef Ann! This week the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) announced their &#8220;Growing Green Awards&#8221; which recognize leaders and innovators in the field of sustainable food and agriculture. We are excited to announce that Chef Ann has been awarded one of these very prestigious awards! Read the press release below [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Chocolate Milk Debate is Rekindled!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chef Ann talks with ABC World News about a new type of chocolate milk. Watch here! http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/chocolate-milk-debate-13360641]]></description>
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		<title>The Case for Universal Breakfast: It Really Is the Most Important Meal of the Day!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2215</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been working as a chef for over three decades and in school food for over one.  As a chef I cooked or oversaw the cooking of tens of thousands of breakfasts.  In every restaurant, hotel, cruise ship and catering operation I worked in, it was always taken for granted that breakfast was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Event to raise money for The School Food Project in Boulder! Join us!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2211</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Healthy Snack and Meal Ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am happy to share a resource full of healthy ideas for home cooked meals and snacks. &#160; The staff at the American Institutes for Research invited us to share this online cookbook with you. Lack of time to cook is one reason why people eat out or buy packaged convenience foods in the grocery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TLT Guest Blogger Dana Woldow: &#8220;How to Know If Your School Can Do What Another School Does&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TLT Guest Blogger Dana Woldow: “How to Know If Your School Can Do What Another School Does” Reposted with permission: By: Bettina Elias Siegel [Ed Note:  Earlier today I posted about a well-publicized school food "miracle" taking place at a school in Chicago.  It's wonderful when you hear good news about school food improvements, and everyone's [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congrats to School Lunch Advocate Bettina Siegel!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read Here: http://www.thelunchtray.com/slate-crowd-sourcing-on-childhood-obesity-ends-lunch-tray-entry-is-a-winner/]]></description>
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		<title>Decoding Congress&#8217; Stealth Formula for Raising the Price of School Lunch</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2192</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Higher prices mean fewer kids in the lunch line Decoding Congress&#8217; Stealth Formula for Raising the Price of School Lunch Reposted with permission: By: Ed Bruske aka The Slow Cook A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing—especially when it results in a stealthy government formula for raising lunch prices at the nation’s schools that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Did the Sandwich Become a Punishment?</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2189</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Did the Sandwich Become a Punishment? Reposted with permission: By: Bettina Elias Siegel MSNBC has a story up today about a practice that’s old news for school food services directors, but may not be widely known by TLT readers — i.e., quietly giving “alternative” meals to  students who come through the lunch line without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buyer&#8217;s Remorse Over Healthier School Food?</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2185</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who will pay for healthier school food? Reposted with permission: By Ed Bruske &#8211; aka The Slow cook School food is poised to look less like prison fodder and more like a Moosewood Restaurant buffet if new USDA guidelines are adopted. Colorful vegetables—lots of them—more whole fruit, more whole grains, less salt, less processed junk—that’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TLT Guest Blogger: Dana Woldow on “How to Make Friends with Your Nutrition Services Director”</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2151</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reposted with permission by: Bettina Elias Siegel TLT Guest Blogger: Dana Woldow on “How to Make Friends with Your Nutrition Services Director” [Ed. Note:  Among the many things I love about San Francisco school food advocate Dana Woldow is how generous she is with her advice and, more importantly, how very practical and straightforward that advice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley&#8217;s School Lunch Program Makes its Big Screen Debut</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2148</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley&#8217;s School Lunch Program Makes its Big Screen Debut Reposted with permission By: Sara Henry Photo: Sophie Constantinou Fancy a film documenting the evolution of school lunch reform in Berkeley and there&#8217;s not an interview with Alice Waters in sight. We&#8217;ll get to that. First, some background: The Berkeley Unified School District&#8217;s (BUSD) school food [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Workshops Coming Up for Coloradans!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2144</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Culinary and Food Education Tools Development Workshop Edible Education to Nourish the Nation: Translating the science of nutrition using the tools of the kitchen to enhance nourishment on every plate- A Continuing Education Workshop For Food,  Nutrition, Health Professionals/Educators &#8211; People Who Advise Americans about Food &#38; Food Choice Hosted by Amanda Archibald, R.D. – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthy School Food: Pay Now, Save Later</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2139</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Healthy School Food: Pay Now, Save Later Reposted with permission: By: Kari Hamerschlag, Environmental Working Group Senior Analyst. New school food standards proposed last week by the Obama administration could nearly double the amount of fruits and vegetables that more than 32 million kids eat every day. WOW! If these standards come into force, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Wal-mart got it right</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[picture: Wal-Mart Why Wal-mart got it right Reposted with permission: By: Jane Black Even the most strident public health advocates cautiously welcomed Wal-Mart’s plan to slash produce prices and reformulate its private-label processed foods to cut sodium and added sugars. Still, on and off the record, they worried. Where were the details about the discounted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Word to Parents About Calcium</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2131</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Broccoli: a good source of calcium A Word to Parents About Calcium Reposted with permission: By Ed Bruske aka The Slow Cook Parents can breathe a little easier now that a group of experts in the most authoritative assessment yet [PDF] has found that kids are not suffering a “calcium crisis” as the dairy industry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Head of Harvard Nutrition Unit Says No to Chocolate Milk</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2127</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Head of Harvard Nutrition Unit Says No to Chocolate Milk Too much sugar in school food? Reposted with permission: By Ed Bruske aka The Slow Cook The dairy industry would like to see Americans everywhere lift a glass for chocolate milk—and pour one for their kids while they’re at it. Dr. Walter Willett, chairman of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Report Challenges Dairy Campaign Promoting Chocolate Milk in Schools</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2123</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reposted with permission By: Ed Bruske New Report Challenges Dairy Campaign Promoting Chocolate Milk in Schools A little sugar with that calcium? A landmark study on calcium and vitamin D nutrition recently published by the Institute of Medicine poses a serious challenge to a dairy industry campaign to sell chocolate milk to the nation’s school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jamie Oliver highlights thelunchbox.org and Chef Ann!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2119</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jamie Oliver highlights thelunchbox.org and Chef Ann! Read here.]]></description>
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		<title>School Food Project Employee Spotlight!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2112</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The School Food Project Presents… Employee Spotlight!  This month, BVSD and The School Food Project bid farewell to Teri Wolfkiel and Della Gibson, both treasured employees who will be missed! Read District Manager Brandy Dreibelbis’ tribute to both Teri and Della below: This is Teri&#8217;s 19 year at BVSD.  She has been at Superior Elementary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Thanks:</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2107</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>From the Westword in Denver: &#8220;Renegade Lunch Lady&#8221; Ann Cooper bellies up to the salad bar</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2100</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reposted with permission: By: Tyler Nemkov &#8220;Renegade Lunch Lady&#8221; Ann Cooper bellies up to the salad bar Ann Cooper is a busy lunch lady &#8212; even if she&#8217;s not the hairnet-wearing stereotype, standing behind the hot-lunch line plopping down scoops of canned green beans and powdered mashed potatoes. In fact, she&#8217;s been trying for years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D.C. Mayor Puts Healthy School Food on the Chopping Block</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2096</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reposted with permission By: Sarah Parsons At the same time that the federal Child Nutrition Act is poised to become law, one city may axe nutritious lunches in school cafeterias. Washington, D.C.&#8217;s Mayor Adrian Fenty recently proposed cutting funds for the city&#8217;s Healthy Schools Act. The budget cuts will effectively ruin one of the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fruit of Their Labor- Elementary School Students in Boulder Enjoy Pumpkin Muffins Made with Pumpkins from their Very Own Garden!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2085</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Sunny Young, thelunchbox.org Blogger “And guess what is SO special about the pumpkin we are using to make these muffins today…” said Michele Bailey, director and founder of the Garden Club at a local Boulder, Colorado Elementary school, “…These pumpkins came from our garden!” This announcement was followed by the oohs and ahhs of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USDA Rmoves Roadblock to Michelle Obama&#8217;s Salad Bar Initiative</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2082</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ed Bruske, reposted with permission Lunch at Columbine Elementary School, Boulder The U.S. Department of Agriculture has removed a serious hurdle confronting Michelle Obama’s campaign to place 6,000 salad bars in the nation’s schools after advocates expressed alarm over a government memo indicating that self-serve salad bars would not be permitted in elementary schools. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Success for the School Food Movement!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2078</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act passes! Read here for the press release from Colorado Congressman Jared Polis&#8217; office: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 2, 2010 Congressman Polis, Chef Cooper Praise Passage of Child Nutrition Bill WASHINGTON—Continuing his push to improve nutrition education and provide healthier school meals, Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO) and Chef Ann Cooper praised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What I’m Thankful For: Salad Bars in Every School: Healthy Food For All Kids!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2058</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Chef Ann Cooper I had the honor of spending Monday the 22nd in Miami at Riverside Elementary School with numerous school food advocates to announce the implementation of our latest collaboration: Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools. With the goal to provide at least 6,000 salad bars to schools in the next three years, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White Out White Rice</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2051</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pediatrition Dr. Alan Greene recently visited ABC News to talk about his new campaign to discourage moms NOT to use white rice as their child&#8217;s first food. Watch here: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/video/white-white-rice-cereal-12227710 Also- Join the movement on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/whiteoutnow]]></description>
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		<title>The School Food Revolution in Boulder: Epilogue</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reposted with permission: November 23, 2010 By: Ed Bruske The School Food Revolution in Boulder: Epilogue Me, slicing pizza, Columbine ES I depend on the kindness of strangers to pursue my quest for the cutting edge in the nation’s school food. After settling on Boulder as my next stop, I had to wonder where I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from Boulder</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reposted with permission: November 23, 3010 By: Ed Bruske Lessons from Boulder Ann Cooper with some of her young salad bar fans Ann Cooper is conducting a clinic in Boulder on how to rescue  school food. Is anyone paying attention? In remaking the lunch line in Boulder schools, Cooper has revealed the federally-subsidized school meals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Community Rallies Around School Food</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reposted with permission: November 23, 2010 By: Ed Bruske A Community Rallies Around School Food Boulder newspaper ad “Dear Parents of the Boulder Valley School District,” the appeal begins. “Things are going well, but we need your help. We need at least 30 more kids in each school to start eating lunch so we can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News Release: School Salad Bar Advocates Support First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Initiative</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2033</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For more information: Ray Gilmer, United Fresh Produce Association, 202-510-8205, rgilmer@unitedfresh.org Sylvia Tawse, Food, Family, Farming, (F3) Foundation, 303-913-9650, sylvia@freshideasgroup.com LOGO, PHOTOS AVAILABLE MIAMI, FL – November 22, 2010 – With the goal to provide at least 6,000 salad bars to schools in the next three years, a new public-private partnership has launched Let’s Move [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salad Bars: Bringing Fresh Produce to Boulder’s Cafeterias</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2027</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salad Bars: Bringing Fresh Produce to Boulder’s Cafeterias Reposted with permission: November 18, 2010 By: Ed Bruske Salad Bar in Use: Monarch High School Every day U.S. school children throw tons of vegetables in the trash. The U.S. Department of Agriculture requires that schools participating in the national school lunch program offer a certain quantity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Build a Salad Bar</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2024</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to Build a Salad Bar Reposted with permission: November 17, 2010 By: Ed Bruske Laying a Sheet of Ice The Boulder school district owns two kinds of salad bars: a stainless model with plug-in refrigeration costs upwards of $6,000. A simpler, polyethylene model costs around $2,500. At Columbine Elementary School, I watched kitchen assistant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dragging School Food into the Computer Age</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2021</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2021#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dragging School Food into the Computer Age Reposted with permission: November 17, 2010 By: Ed Bruske When she arrived in Boulder in May 2008 to investigate food service in the schools, Beth Collins found that the cooks had to send paper purchase orders to the school system’s central warehouse to get the ingredients they needed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boulder’s New Deep-Dish Vegetarian Enchilada: The Recipe</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2019</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2019#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reposted with Permission by Ed Bruske: Brady Dreibelbis, cutting potatoes Most U.S. schools don’t worry about recipes for the food they serve: it arrives pre-cooked and frozen from industrial factories. All they have to do is re-heat it and put it out on a steam table. Under their newly re-constituted meal service, schools in Boulder are serving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Quite Cooked from Scratch…Yet by Ed Bruske</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2016</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2016#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reposted with Permission: Lunch: Penne pasta with salad, cottage cheese Ann Cooper warned me that I might see some unusual things in the school kitchens on my visit to Boulder. I did. One morning at Casey Middle School, five-pound bags of what looked like frozen cookie dough lay on a stainless work table. In fact, labels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Your Momma’s Lunch Ladies</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2014</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2014#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reposed with Permission: November 12th, 2010 by Ed Bruske Ali Metzger, left, and Margaret Hancock: happy to be feeding kids I was happily stuffing cheese quesadillas at Boulder’s Monarch High School one morning when a perky young woman in a crisp white shirt, natty black apron and spiffy billed cap extended a paper container filled with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Many Faces of Ann Cooper</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2012</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2012#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reposted with permission: November 11th, 2010 by Ed Bruske Ann Cooper&#8217;s latest book Ann Cooper is involved in so may different activities and is branded in so many different ways it’s sometimes hard to know where one starts and another ends without a program. Here’s an organizational chart of sorts to explain the multi-faceted world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Chance Encounter Plus Tacos Ignites Boulder’s Cafeteria Makeover</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2008</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2008#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reposted with Permission November 10th, 2010 by Ed Bruske Sylvia Tawse wanted less talk, more action After putting four children through Boulder schools, Sylvia Tawse was tired of talking about changing the district’s lousy food. She wanted to do something about it. “I had been packing lunches for my kids for 17 years. Once a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Two More Weeks &#8211; Chef Ann Wants 200 More Schools to Apply!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2003</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/2003#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Salad Bar Project needs your help!  Nov. 15 is the deadline for schools to apply for a free healthy salad bar kit through our partnership with Whole Foods Market, whose shoppers raised more than $1.4 million to fund salad bars in schools across the country.  It is so easy to apply &#8211; schools just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Interests of the Child?</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1994</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1994#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Best interests of the child! Great article from NY about school lunch: http://wagnerfpa.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/best-interests-of-the-child/]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Don&#8217;t &#8216;Toy&#8217; With Kids&#8217; Health!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1995</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1995#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Sunny Young, thelunchbox.org blogger Anyone who has children (who have dined at McDonalds) knows what it’s like to drive by the red and yellow restaurant with your kids in the back seat, begging for what’s inside. Not only does the food entice them, but often there are also attractive slides, ball pits, and other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National School Lunch Week:  Why Is Healthy School Food So Elusive &amp; Can You Just Do One Thing to Help Fix It</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1991</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1991#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The President has proclaimed this week as National School Lunch Week, the White House press release on this event leads us to believe that there is tremendous progress being made toward healthier school lunches and in some ways we have made progress.  It’s difficult to read a paper, watch TV, listen to NPR or peruse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeding Kids Better Food and Teaching Them About Food Helps Them Make Better Food Choices!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1966</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1966#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feeding Kids Better Food and Teaching Them About Food Helps Them Make Better Food Choices! For four years I was the Nutrition Services Director for Berkeley Unified School District.  The four years was a roller coaster ride of changing the food from a menu of highly processed chicken nuggets, corn dogs, Extremo burritos, pizza pockets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sugar is Sugar, says the Corn Refiners Association&#8217;s new ad campaign. But is it?</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1960</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1960#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reposted with permission from Robyn O&#8217;Brien of AllergyKids: I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve seen it.  The new campaign for high fructose corn syrup in which the Corn Refiners Association has decided to rebrand and rename their product.   Reflecting on changing consumer sentiment around high fructose corn syrup and declining sales, the Corn Refiners Association has petitioned the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USDA Needs a Taste of Reality About School Lunches</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1954</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1954#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read here: http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/USDA_Needs_a_Taste_of_Reality_About_School_Lunches_8504.html for Dana Woldow of San Francisco&#8217;s reality check for the USDA!]]></description>
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		<title>God Issues Recall</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1952</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1952#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[God Issues Recall reprinted with permission of Alex Bogusky http://alexbogusky.posterous.com/god-issues-recall HEAVEN&#8211; In a surprise move, God issued a statement today announcing an immediate recall of His complete book series:The Torah, The Quran and the New Testament, citing misunderstandings and violence of &#8220;biblical proportions&#8221; brought about by many who have read the books. In a written [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1948</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1948#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Salad Bar in Every School! The smells of back-to-school: freshly sharpened pencils, old leather seats of yellow busses, chalk dust, and lettuce?  This fall, Whole Foods and Chef Ann Cooper, “The Renegade Lunch Lady,” in conjunction with her Food Family Farming Foundation’s premier project, The Lunch Box, have implemented a remarkable new program, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OMG: Corporate Advertising is Killing Us!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1944</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1944#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Biz &#8220;Greenwashing Our Lives &#38; Health&#8221; The segment starts 1:15 minutes in: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/308102/april-29-2010/tip-wag&#8212;scientists&#8212;kfc]]></description>
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		<title>The Latest on The Child Nutrition Bill &#8211; Reposted with Permission by Jill Richardson</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1938</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1938#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AUG 12, 2010 Last week, the Senate unanimously passed the Child Nutrition Reauthorization, a bill that would do just about everything to improve the school lunch program &#8211; except fund it. This is no small exception, considering that a tiny percentage of schools are currently able to follow the USDA&#8217;s nutrition regulations. How will they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Dairy Says Your Kids Need Chocolate Milk</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1936</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1936#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[School Nutrition Association Dances to Milk Industry Tune August 12th, 2010 by Ed Bruske · food news Drink this chocolate milk or die! The School Nutrition Association, representing thousands of school food service workers across the country, has embraced a “study” promoting chocolate and other sugar-enhanced milk that was paid for by the dairy industry, conducted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>www.thelunchbox.org Goes Live!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1933</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1933#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Huffington Post Chris Elam Program Director, Meatless Monday: Posted: August 10, 2010 10:57 AM reprinted with permission of the author School Food, Is There Hope? Chef Ann Cooper Opens The Lunch Box There was good news last week as the Senate passed the Child Nutrition Act, authorizing increased funds and program expansion, and now awaits debate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Senate’s Passed the Healthy Hunger Free Kid’s Act BUT&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1929</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1929#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate’s Passed the Healthy Hunger Free Kid’s Act But What’s For School Lunch? High Fat – High Sugar – High Salt! On the heels of the Senate’s unanimous vote to pass Child Nutrition Reauthorization, this time around named the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act, I find myself think about the next big bill to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boot Camps: Really Cooking School Food!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1920</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1920#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boot Camps: The Perfect Summer School for School Food Service Staff I’m just back from a family vacation and my nephews were very excited about their respective summer camps.  Back at work we’re beginning to schedule two weeks of training for our Sous Chefs and Production Cooks.  As I catch up on school food news, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cancer &#8211; Agriculture &amp; BP</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1899</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1899#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Precautionary Principal and the Tale of Two Disasters: the BP Spill and Cancer I spent the weekend with a good friend who has cancer and in the next few weeks I’ll go to visit another.  Both 50-something women who eat well, get lots of exercise, take care of themselves, have work they love, spouses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Lessons from Berkeley: The Truth About Vegetables&#8221; by Ed Bruske</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1895</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 17:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.theslowcook.com Reposted With Permission: May 17th, 2010 Might as well say it straight up: Kids don’t like vegetables. At least most kids don’t like most vegetables most of the time. That’s the ultimate lesson I draw after spending weeks in school kitchens from Washington, D.C., to Berkeley, CA. And that certainly challenges the idea of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Berkeley Schools Cook Food from Scratch: Epilogue&#8221; by Ed Bruske</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 17:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.theslowcook.com Reposted With Permission: May 15th, 2010 Me, in hair net, weighing pasta After discovering earlier this year that the “fresh cooked” meals being served in D.C. schools were actually industrially-processed convenience food, I went looking for a school district that was really making food from scratch. I turned to Ann Cooper, the “renegade lunch lady” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Berkeley Schools Cook from Scratch: Hold the Beans, Please&#8221; by Ed Bruske</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1871</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 19:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.theslowcook.com Reposted With Permission: May 14th, 2010 After spending hours sorting chicken pieces my first day on the job in the Berkeley school system’s central kitchen, I got a break. “How would you like to serve the kids at lunch?” asked Joan Gallagher, the sous chef in charge of kitchen production. “It’s the most exciting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Do One Thing For Our Children’s Health: And Please, No More Talking!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1867</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 17:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just Do One Thing For Our Children’s Health And Please, oh Please, No More Talking! Today The President’s Task Force on Childhood Obesity released its report and action plan to tackle childhood obesity.  The report addresses five main strategies: early childhood, empowering parents and caregivers, healthy food in schools, access to health, affordable food, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Berkeley Schools Cook From Scratch: How Breakfast Pays for Lunch&#8221; by Ed Bruske</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1859</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 17:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.theslowcook.com Reposted With Permission: May 13th, 2010 Around 8:30 each morning, students at the Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Berkeley, CA, cross an asphalt playground behind the main school building and begin drifting into a cafeteria and kitchen complex known as the “dining commons” to pick up breakfast. They head for a set of rolling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Berkeley Schools Cook From Scratch: Chefs Rule&#8221; by Ed Bruske</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1849</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 16:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.theslowcook.com Reposted With Permission: May 12th, 2010 Executive chef Bonnie Christensen Executive chef Bonnie Christensen was at her desk, holding forth on her troubles with labor unions, when her second-in-command, sous chef Joan Gallagher, walked into the kitchen office cradling a bunch of asparagus freshly picked and just arrived in a 350-pound delivery from Full Belly Farms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Berkeley Schools Cook From Scratch: Parents Revolt&#8221; By Ed Bruske</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1841</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 14:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.theslowcook.com Reposted With Permission: May 11th, 2010 The Dining Commons, Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School Eric Weaver’s son is a freshman in college now. But back when he was in kindergarten, Weaver, an appeals attorney in Berkeley, CA, was a parent volunteer who couldn’t help noticing that the kids were sneaking into the teacher’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Berkeley Schools Cook From Scratch: An Epic Chicken&#8221; By Ed Bruske</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1837</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 14:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 10th, 2010 http://www.theslowcook.com Reposted With Permission: Chicken eight days in the making My instructions, simple enough, were spelled out in permanent black marker on the cover of a brown pizza delivery box: Lay six chicken breasts down one side of a parchment-covered baking sheet pan, lay four across, then fill all the spaces in between. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can the Military Fix School Food?</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1835</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 01:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Business: the Elephant in the Room of Changing School Food: The Military – Are They the Godzilla? When the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) first came into being a little more than half a century ago, one of the pressing issues of the time was that too many recruits were too malnourished to fight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CIA Commencement 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1833</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 21:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CIA Commencement 2010 Good morning &#8211; I am so honored to be speaking at your graduation. I stand before you today as a chef who graduated over 30 years ago from CIA – but more importantly I stand before you today as a Lunch Lady – yes as a school Lunch Lady – a fact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips to Be a Healthy School Food Advocate</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1830</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 22:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are we throwing a tantrum about school lunch?  Consider these staggering facts: The Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention have stated that out of the children born in the year 2000, one out of every three Caucasians and two out of every three African Americans and Hispanics will contract diabetes in their lifetimes. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School Thoughts by Alice Walker</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1828</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 00:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following was given to me by a school administrator &#38; I wanted to share it w/ you&#8230;.. We Are the Ones We&#8217;ve Been Waiting For I have deeply loved all of my teachers, except one, a distant cousin, who frequently left us locked out of the school building on very cold days.  When she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School Food &amp; Commodity Food &#8211; Our Kids Health in the Balance</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1826</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What’s For School Lunch? High Fat – High Sugar – High Salt! Where Does Most of it Come From? Highly Processed Commodity Food! Like many of you I’ve been watching Jamie Oliver’s reality TV show and like many, but certainly not all school food advocates, I’ve been applauding his efforts and his ability to bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Five Jamie O</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1812</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Lunch Lady Wants to “High-Five” Jamie O &#38; Says: Shame on Those in the Movement “Dishing” Him When Jamie’s show began airing I was trekking through Nepal, at peace in a meditative state in the Himalayas.  Upon return I found a tremendous amount of angst, negativity and out-right anger from many of my colleagues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Interview on Seeds &amp; Fruit website</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1810</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.seedsandfruit.com/2010/04/ann-cooper-chef-school-lunch-activist]]></description>
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		<title>Pennies for School Food</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1808</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lincoln vs Lincoln: What Would Abraham Say About Blanche’s Pennies for School Food? “I believe it will be held a crime in the twentieth century to lure young bodies and minds to school under the pretense of education, only to poison them slowly with bad food.” &#8211; Ellen H. Richards The history of the National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ed Bruske on How School Food Relates to Childrens Health</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1805</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Study: Kids Who Eat School Food Are Fatter Reposted with permission March 16th, 2010 by Ed Bruske · Tales, Wellness, food news, kids Is school food implicated in childhood obesity? A new study from the University of Michigan finds that kids who eat the food served in schools are more likely to be overweight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School Lunch Contest: Eat Lunch With Your Kids, Send Us the Pictures, Win Prizes!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1797</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out Lee Zukor&#8217;s article, enter the contest and read his blog: simplygoodandtasty.com. In order to agree on a solution Lee challenges us all to look at the problem or decide if there is one with school lunches. Time to eat a school lunch! Reposted with permission: School Lunch Contest: Eat Lunch With Your Kids, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Case Against Chicken Nuggets as a School Lunch</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1793</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Case Against Chicken Nuggets as a School Lunch I just came back from presenting at Expo West; the Natural/Organic Show where the Natural/Organic industry presents their products over one million feet of floor space.  Last year when I was at the show, the item that made me crazy was organic gummy bears, this year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More $$ for school lunch = healthier kids – my Op Ed in the Washington Post today:</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1786</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For healthier kids, increase the federal school lunch budget By Ann Cooper Friday, March 5, 2010 Washington Post For all the good first lady Michelle Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Let&#8217;s Move&#8221; initiative will do motivating the private sector, there is hard work ahead as Congress takes up reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act this year. The administration has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It’s Not the Burgers, Mr. President, it’s the Buns&#8221; by Ed Bruske &#8211; Reposted with permission</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1775</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[·cholesterol]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So if the President, who has two chefs at the White House, isn’t eating a healthy diet, what can we expect of our most at risk children, who are fed a diet high in refined carbs everyday at school.  We know the President’s diet will be “fixed,” but what about our children’s?  Write your elected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Article by Jill Richardson:  Are School Lunches Setting Kids Up for Obesity and Poor Nutrition?</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1771</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reposted with Permission By Jill Richardson: Are School Lunches Setting Kids Up for Obesity and Poor Nutrition? The Obamas are taking on childhood obesity by tackling problems with the National School Lunch Program. But will their fixes be enough? From Alternet.org February 25, 2010 &#124; Photo Credit: Beau Wade Michelle Obama launched her &#8220;Let&#8217;s Move&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chef Ann Cooper asks USDA, “Brother, Can You Spare More Than A Dime?”</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1768</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Secretary of Agriculture’s budget leaves school kids with paltry 10 cents extra for food BOULDER, Colo. (Feb. 23, 2010) – USDA Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack thought his news today was positive until Chef Ann Cooper did the math.  Earlier today at the National Press Club, Vilsack announced a proposed Obama Administration $1 billion increase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jill Richardson on my visit to San Diego:</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reposted with Permission: An Ann Cooper School Lunch Makeover by: Jill Richardson http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/3277/an-ann-cooper-school-lunch-makeover Thu Feb 18, 2010 at 23:33:59 PM PST Whole Foods held a competition, promising the winner a school lunch makeover by famed &#8220;Renegade Lunch Lady&#8221; Ann Cooper. As luck would have it, the winner was Albert Einstein Academies, here in San Diego. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking the School Lunch</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here to listen:  http://www.wcpn.org/WCPN/news/29698/]]></description>
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		<title>Ed Bruske on Michelle Obama&#8217;s Obesity Campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’re in WashPost “Outlook” Today February 14th, 2010 by Ed Bruske · Tales, kids To make school food healthy, Michelle Obama has a tall order There’s been an impressive convergence of attention on school food recently, with “Healthy Schools” legislation introduced in the D.C. Council, then my series of blog posts, “Tales from a D.C. School Kitchen,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The School Garden Debate: To Weep or Reap?”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lisa Bennett was originally published by the Center for Ecoliteracy. © Copyright 2010 Center for Ecoliteracy. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. For more information, visit www.ecoliteracy.org. I was speaking today with a mom at my sons&#8217; school. She was concerned about a teacher who was doing such a poor job that even his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One More Dollar For Healthy School Food</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chef Ann Cooper Urges Parents to Demand Healthy Funding Boost for Child Nutrition Act Renegade Lunch Lady Launches Letter-Writing Campaign: One More Dollar for Healthy School Food February 09, 2010 09:48 AM Eastern Time BOULDER, Colo.&#8211;(EON: Enhanced Online News)&#8211;The Child Nutrition Act, slated for reauthorization this year, serves up a rare opportunity for healthier funding of [...]]]></description>
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