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		<title>More $$ for school lunch == healthier kids – my Op Ed in the Washington Post today:</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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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 proposed an additional $1 billion [...]]]></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>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[·fat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[·Obama]]></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>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Obama]]></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; campaign to fight obesity [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
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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 [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ann Cooper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school lunch]]></category>
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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 [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here to listen:  http://www.wcpn.org/WCPN/news/29698/
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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>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
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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 students were complaining [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
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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 school lunches. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Budget &amp; School Food</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1734</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away: 
Why Then Doesn’t the President’s Budget Proposal Assure 
Our Children Even That Much?
President Obama’s Budget became public recently and one of the many items in the massive $4.5 trillion expenditures is $1 billion per year for Child Nutrition split between the National School Lunch Program and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lacking of School Food Funding</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1733</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by: Daniela Kunz
Lack of financial funds make things very complicated not only for school cafeterias, food decision makers of school districts, principals and ultimately also for parents &#8211; and big Food Inc. takes advantage of this and drives out of business small family farms &#8211; systematically so&#8230;&#8230;..
I have ditched processed foods for more than 13 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schools &amp; Sugar &amp; Our Children</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1731</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just Say No: D.C. Needs to Man Up to Sugar and Flavored Milk in Schools
cross posted with permission from the Slow Cook blog
http://www.theslowcook.com/2010/02/02/just-say-no-d-c-needs-to-man-up-to-sugar-in-schools/#more-4031
February 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Tales, kids


 Are schools addicted to high-fructose corn syrup?

One of the most disturbing things I saw during the week I spent in the kitchen at my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Child Nutrition Reauthorization = Shovel Ready Stimulus Funding</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1729</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[School Food: Shovel Ready Stimulus at Its Best!
The last few weeks at work in Boulder have been challenging, the Governor’s budget is bleeding and it seems that hundreds of millions of dollars will be cut out of K-12 education over the next two years.  As we all tighten and tighten and yet one more time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edible Education: It Really Does Make Sense!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1717</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1717#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Source: http://lettuceeatkale.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/cultivating-controversy-in-defense-of-an-edible-education/
Cultivating Controversy: In Defense of an Edible Education
By Sarah Henry
reprinted with permission of the author

I was so royally peeved by Caitlin Flanagan’s hatchet job on Alice Waters and the Edible Schoolyard in her Atlantic piece “Cultivating Failure” that it’s taken me a week to simmer down enough to write about the matter with some decorum.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berkeley School Food a Sustainable Model!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Public School Lunches
By Beebo Turman 
Thursday January 14, 2010
If you care about what your children eat, you will be pleased to hear that Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) serves terrific lunches to all our students! The food is either freshly made or assembled, locally grown or produced, and as organic as possible. We have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Feud Over Food</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1711</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.districtadministration.com/viewarticlepf.aspx?articleid=2247
The Feud Over Food
The truth about the school lunch wars.
By Stephanie Johns
January 2010

Serving meals and snacks at school is fraught with politics and pitfalls. While the battle rages in school cafeterias over menu choices, beverage sales, vending foods, and outright bans on what students can buy or even bring to school, there is some good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Culinary Instructor&#8217;s Thoughts on the Atlantic Article</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Sí se puede” –Cesar Chavez
“Yes it can be done” is a phrase born from the story and abuse of immigrant labor in America; the belief in an American “lofty set of ideals” the driver within the phrase, the belief in humanity.  Caitlyn Flanagan’s piece in The Atlantic uses the story of immigrant labor to explain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victoria Tatum&#8217;s Response to the Atlantic</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1707</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By vtatum


In Defense of Gardens

Caitlin Flanagan is right: I am an educated, middle-class woman whose school voluntarism is “a locus of (my) fathomless energies.” When I see students whose support system, for a myriad of reasons, has failed them, I want to do something about it. And I am one of the Alice Waters groupies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Great Response to Atlantic Article!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to thank Ms. Flanagan for having the courage to tell a great story and not be encumbered by the need to be politically correct. My only complaint is that she did not finish her heroic tale of that little Latino boy forced to be a indentured servant for the eco-elite. I was so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smarter School Lunches from Yes Magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smarter School Lunches
&#8220;Renegade Lunch Lady&#8221; Ann Cooper changes the way kids eat.
by Ellen Mahoney
posted Jan 12, 2010
http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/smarter-school-lunches &#8211; reprinted with permission from Yes Magazine
School lunches often get low marks when it comes to flavor and nutrition. But chef, author, and activist Ann Cooper is working hard to change all that.

 

Ann Cooper believes in smarter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Atlantic Attacks School Garden Programs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I almost don&#8217;t know how to respond to something that is so absurd, misinformed and misguided!
In reading Caitlin Flanagan’s article in the Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/201001/school-yard-garden ), I found myself shaking my head over and over and wondering if anyone involved in writing or editing the article actually worked with kids in gardens or in the school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthy School Lunch: The Cure for Our Health Care Woes</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1690</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Healthy School Lunch: The Cure for Our Health Care Woes
The Obama administration has declared the dire state of our health care system one of our country’s most pressing challenges.  The Centers for Disease Control have stated that of the children born in the year 2,000; one out of every three Caucasians and two out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthy Food for ALL Children</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1688</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The School Lunch Revolution’s New Year’s Resolution!
We have one resolution for 2010: that No child will ever be hungry at school and that every child will have access to a healthy/delicious breakfast and lunch every day at school!
It just seems like a day doesn’t go by without a print, blog or news story about school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Got Ethics&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1686</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the New Year begins the health care debate moves forward and Child Nutrition Reauthorization is on the horizon.  With ads telling us that Coco Krispies will stave off the flu, Fruit Loops are a Smart Choice, Chocolate Milk is the only source of calcium for kids and most recently that only Agribiz produced pork [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing School Food Can Be Hard Work</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1684</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: www.chicagotribune.com/health/chi-suburban-school-lunches-jan05,0,6750587.story
chicagotribune.com
TRIBUNE WATCHDOG
School lunches: Push for healthier foods faces barriers
Parents find the rules stacked against them as they try to remove entrees such as pancakes
By Monica Eng
Tribune reporter
January 5, 2010 

On a frigid February day last year, Michele Hays filed into Evanston Township High School with other concerned parents to talk with district administrators about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schools could learn lessons on food safety</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1679</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: http://www.usatoday.com/
Schools could learn lessons on food safety
By Elizabeth Weise and Peter Eisler, USA TODAY
As Congress and the Obama administration seek new ways to assure the safety of food served to the nation&#8217;s schoolchildren, the most promising paths are no secret.
Scientists and food safety experts say there are industries and major companies, both in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Schools&#8217; War Against Chocolate Milk</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1674</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Find this article at:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1948865,00.html
Friday, Dec. 18, 2009
U.S. Schools&#8217; War Against Chocolate Milk
By Gilbert Cruz
It would sound like a joke if everyone weren&#8217;t so up in arms about it. Taking a stand against chocolate milk? It&#8217;s like canceling Christmas. What could possibly be wrong with something that brings children such joy?
A lot, according to some nutrition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Chocolate Milk Debate Goes On!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1672</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[School District Says &#8216;No More Chocolate Milk&#8217;
Boulder Valley School District Stopped Serving Chocolate Milk This Fall
Jennie Castor, 7NEWS Video Journalist
BOULDER, Colo. &#8212; Something is very different in the cafeteria of Douglass Elementary School in Boulder County.
The chocolate milk is gone.
In November, the Boulder Valley School District&#8217;s new director of nutrition services made some drastic changes. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sam Kass &#8211; my favorite White House Chef!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1670</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Kass preps and plugs the winter garden
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/all-we-can-eat/sustainable-food/prepping-and-promoting-the-whi.html
First, he was profiled in Men&#8217;s Health magazine. Then it was People. Now White House assistant chef Sam Kass has taken the first step to small screen stardom. And by small screen, I mean YouTube.
Today, the White House released a video of Kass and Department of Agriculture officials [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madison WI: Taking on School Food Reform</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1668</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whetting the appetite for school lunch reform
By SUSAN TROLLER &#124; The Capital Times &#124; stroller@madison.com &#124; Posted: Thursday, December 10, 2009 6:45 am
Those looking to overhaul Madison’s school lunch program will get a taste of what could be when Beth Collins pays a visit in January.
Collins is coming to Madison to take a preliminary look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dairy Groups Fight To Keep Chocolate Milk On Menu</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1658</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dairy Groups Fight To Keep Chocolate Milk On Menu
by Jeff Brady
December 9, 2009
Source: www.npr.org

Some school lunchrooms have turned into virtual battlefields in recent years as activists push for more healthful menus. Remember the soda wars and ketchup as a vegetable?
The latest fight is over chocolate milk. Critics say it has too much sugar, and they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA Today on School Lunch</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1656</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fast-food standards for meat top those for school lunches
By Peter Eisler, Blake Morrison and Anthony DeBarros, USA TODAY
In the past three years, the government has provided the nation&#8217;s schools with millions of pounds of beef and chicken that wouldn&#8217;t meet the quality or safety standards of many fast-food restaurants, from Jack in the Box and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jill Richardson on School Lunch from Fresh the Movie Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1654</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[School Lunch – A Sad Reflection of Our Nation’s Screwed Up Priorities
Guest Bloggers
Posted on December 7, 2009 &#8211; by Lisa Madison
By: Jill Richardson
 Author of: Recipe for America: Why Our Food System is Broken and What We Can Do To Fix It
Website: www.lavidaloavore.org 
With the epidemic rise in diet-related chronic illnesses in the past few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Denver Post on Chocolate Milk</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1652</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colorado schools face cartons of controversy over milk

Health cited on each side of schools&#8217; debate over chocolate vs. plain milk

By Karen Auge 
The Denver Post

Posted: 11/30/2009 01:00:00 AM MST

Updated: 11/30/2009 10:02:22 AM MST


Jamison Castillo picks chocolate milk during lunch at Lincoln Elementary. As school districts ban flavored milk, citing the high sugar content, the milk industry has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robyn O&#8217;Brien: 8 Steps to Save Food!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1649</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1649#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The landscape of health has changed. No longer are our families guaranteed a healthy livelihood, not in the face of the current rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer’s and allergies. In the words of Elizabeth Warren, Harvard University law professor who is head of the Congressional Oversight Panel, &#8220;We need a new model,&#8221; and we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cool School Food in Telluride</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1646</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.telluridewatch.com/printer_friendly/4546697
School Lunch, Made From Scratch, Draws Rave Reviews
by Martinique Davis
11.18.09 &#8211; 05:36 pm
TELLURIDE – Close to sixty pumpkins came home with the Telluride Intermediate School’s sixth graders following a recent field trip to a pumpkin farm near Delta.
Those pumpkins wound up in new Telluride Schools’ chef Jonny Taylor’s kitchen, and by the end of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School districts ban chocolate milk</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1644</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: www.9news.com
BOULDER &#8211; Ann Cooper is passionate about getting kids to eat and drink healthy. She says that&#8217;s why she has removed all flavored milk from her school district, sticking strictly with the white stuff.
&#8220;I really believe we should not be serving chocolate milk in school. As far as I&#8217;m concerned, chocolate milk is soda [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USDA backs rewarding schools serving healthy food</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1633</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[USDA backs rewarding schools serving healthy food
Tue Nov 17, 2009 4:13pm EST
By Christopher Doering
Source: Reuters.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; Schools that serve more fruits, vegetables and whole grains to pupils should see higher federal support rates than those serving less-healthier meals loaded with high fats and sugar, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Tuesday.
Child nutrition programs, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GMOs &amp; Pesticides</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1631</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 by Reuters
Biotech Crops Cause Big Jump in Pesticide Use: Report
by Carey Gillam
KANSAS CITY &#8211; The rapid adoption by U.S. farmers of genetically engineered corn, soybeans and cotton has promoted increased use of pesticides, an epidemic of herbicide-resistant weeds and more chemical residues in foods, according to a report issued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Ag Committee on School Food</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1629</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate Ag Committee held a hearing this morning on opportunities to address hunger and improve health in the reauthorization of federal child nutrition programs. The hearing comes one day after the release of the USDA&#8217;s 2008 report on household food security, which found that almost 15 percent of Americans are food-insecure — the highest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Got Ethics&#8221; by Kate Adamick &amp; Ann Cooper</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1626</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1626#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Got Ethics?”  (A Reality Tale)
By Kate Adamick &#38; Ann Cooper
Not long ago or far away, there was a great and mighty kingdom that was the envy of all other kingdoms in the world.   The kingdom was home to two groups of people, the Big People and the Little People.  The Big People had many jobs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marion Nestle on Chocolate Milk &#8211; Thanks Marion!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1624</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1624#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raise your hand for chocolate milk?
Thanks to Marlene Schwartz of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale for alerting me to this Associated Press report about the new dairy industry campaign to rescue chocolate milk from the food police.  This, you will not be surprised to hear, is the latest activity funded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Blog on Chocolate Milk!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1622</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1622#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parent groups have a cow over campaign pushing chocolate milk as &#8216;health food&#8217;
Sarah Gilbert 
Nov 9th 2009 at 6:20PM
When it comes to comfort foods, chocolate milk ranks right up there with meatloaf and mac n&#8217; cheese. But a campaign to market the sweetened milk as a healthy choice for kids is leaving parent groups anything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OMG National Dairy Council Pushin Chocolate Milk!!!!!!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1620</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Industry pushes chocolate milk in schools
Posted on November 8, 2009 at 1:04 PM
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The creators of the &#8220;Got Milk?&#8221; campaign are getting ready to make a big push to keep chocolate milk on kids&#8217; minds and on school lunch menus, a plan that has some educators and obesity advocates none too pleased.
The new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Fructose Corn Syrup: Why We Shouldn&#8217;t Consume It!!!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1616</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[High Fructose Corn Syrup vs. Sugar for our Children 
by RACHEL MCFADDEN on OCTOBER 30, 2009
http://www.happygreenbabies.com/food/high-fructose-corn-syrup-vs-sugar-for-our-children/
Have you seen the high fructose corn syrup commercials?  The commercials tell us, “it is simply corn, and fine in moderation.”  What does moderation mean?  Do you know what you are eating?  What are you feeding your children?  The fact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeding Kids or Counting Stuff &#8211; Which is More Important?</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1605</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Question of Values
Source: The Lunch Box Blog
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
The San Francisco Chronicle reported last week that San Francisco schools have had to pick up the entire bill for the school lunch program. Inspectors found &#8220;critical&#8221; program violations in the district and have cut off federal and state funding until the district shapes up.
Phyllis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s the Real Beef? In Portland Schools!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1602</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Burger Trials
A student taste test in the Portland Public Schools
By Lola Milholland
Published in MeatPaper &#8211; http://www.meatpaper.com/ &#8211; Issue 9, Fall 2009
Nikole Williams is sweating puddles into the armpits of her blouse. We’re standing in the cafeteria of Benson High School in northeast Portland, Oregon several hours before lunch service. The air smells like Parker House [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Government Making Paperwork MORE Important Than Feeding Hungry Kids!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1600</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[S.F. schools&#8217; lunch money cut off; rules broken
Jill Tucker, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 21, 2009


  


(10-21) 14:43 PDT SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; School lunches have long been the butt of bad jokes featuring mystery meat and plastic-wrapped bean burritos, but in San Francisco, feeding more than 30,000 children every day &#8211; while following strict federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are GMOs the Answer: I say NO!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1598</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can Biotech Food Cure World Hunger?
By The Editors www.nytimes.com 

Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg A crop of genetically modified canola grows in a field in Lake Bolac, in the Western District of Victoria, Australia, Sept. 29, 2009.
With food prices remaining high in developing countries, the United Nations estimates that the number of hungry people around the world could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sam Kass &#8211; Helping Assure Better Food For Kids</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1595</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Family Chef, Sam Kass, Cooks up Policy
Politico.com (October 23, 2009)
Michelle Obama hired Sam Kass to cook for her family.
As the White House food initiative coordinator, Sam Kass has a fancy title. But he’s also a chef who turns out healthful dinners for the first family. His job comprises the connection between dinner menus (more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthy School Lunches??</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1592</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Healthy Are Your Child’s School Meals?





Associated Press First lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack sample foods during a healthy kids fair at the White House. 


School lunches have come a long way since the federal government tried to cut costs in the 1980s by classifying ketchup as a vegetable.
Nevertheless, I mostly bypassed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting Read: Food Labels &amp; Global Warming</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1589</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To Cut Global Warming, Swedes Study Their Plates
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL

STOCKHOLM — Shopping for oatmeal, Helena Bergstrom, 37, admitted that she was flummoxed by the label on the blue box reading, “Climate declared: .87 kg CO2 per kg of product.”
“Right now, I don’t know what this means,” said Ms. Bergstrom, a pharmaceutical company employee.
But if a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IOM Guidelines &#8211; Could Help Our Kids</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1587</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IOM recommends new nutritional requirements for school meal programs
Published: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 &#8211; 10:38 in Mathematics &#38; Economics
The National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program should adopt a new set of nutrient targets and standards for menu planning, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. The recommended targets and standards would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marion Nestle says FDA set to take on Big Biz self-endorsements</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1572</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FDA to clean up front-of-package mess
The FDA has a new “Dear Industry” letter announcing that it is going to set some rules for those “better-for-you” stickers on the front of junk food packages.  Why?   “FDA’s intent is to provide standardized, science-based criteria on which FOP [front of package] nutrition labeling must be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IOM Recommendations Could Help Kids Health</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1570</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChefAnn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[School Food News 
The National Scene
Source: The Lunch Box Blog
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
The current nutrition standards for school meals are in sore need of an overhaul. They haven’t been updated since 1995, and they’re not in line with the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The USDA tried for several years to bring the regulations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Institute of Medicine Study</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1568</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New school-lunch study focuses on better nutrition
By PHILIP BRASHER
pbrasher@dmreg.com 
Washington, D.C. — Kids will see more fruits and vegetables in the lunchroom, if the government follows recommendations issued by the National Academy of Sciences.
Foods would be less salty, too, under the guidelines developed by a 14-member panel of experts in health, child nutrition and economics. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Civil Eats: Its Cool to Eat School Food!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1566</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 20th, 2009  By Victoria Tatum
It was lunchtime at Harbor High School, and the cars were backed up three stories down to the parking lot at the bottom of campus. The thump of the bass resonated from jacked-up trucks and Toyota Forerunners as students tried to break out for a burrito or at Joe’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthier Kid Food</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1564</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sneak This, Swap That: 9 Healthier Kid Foods
By Jennifer Gruenemay, Special to Lifescript
Published October 16, 2009
Mac &#8216;n’ cheese, hot dogs and French fries can be healthy — with a few clever tweaks. Learn how to turn your kid&#8217;s favorite junk foods into nutritious meals. Plus, find out the top 8 supermarket snacks to avoid&#8230;
What would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Childhood Obesity</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1562</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[10 Ways You&#8217;re Making Your Child Fat
By Jennifer Gruenemay, Special to Lifescript
Published September 25, 2009
Let’s face it: It’s tough to get kids to eat healthy foods when they’re screaming for fries or ice cream. But more than 12.5 million U.S. children are overweight and face chronic disease ahead. Are you setting your child up for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Need a Junk Food Tax!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1560</link>
		<comments>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1560#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 13, 2009
Overeating on Pocket Change
By RONI CARYN RABIN
Is the corner store making some children fat?
Low-income children in Philadelphia with about one dollar in pocket money managed to purchase almost 400 calories worth of snack food at convenience stores on the way to and from school, according to study published on Monday in the journal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunch Money: Washington Times</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1558</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday, October 11, 2009
More money needed for nutritious school meals
Gabriella Boston
&#8220;An apple a day keeps the doctor away,&#8221; the old saying goes.
The problem — of course — is Americans in general are just not that into fresh fruit and vegetables. Kids are no different.
It doesn&#8217;t help that school lunches often lack in fresh produce offerings, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Pollan&#8217;s Rules to Eat By</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1556</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 11, 2009
The Food Issue
Rules to Eat By
By MICHAEL POLLAN
Every trip to the supermarket these days requires us to navigate what has become a truly treacherous food landscape. I mean, what are we to make of a wonder of food science like the new Splenda with fiber? (“The great sweet taste you want and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Less Junk Food in Schools!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1551</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More US schools shun sale of &#8216;junk food&#8217;
WASHINGTON — Fewer US schools are making soda, candy bars and other types of &#8220;junk food&#8221; available on their premises, according to a study released Tuesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
&#8220;The school environment is a key setting for influencing children&#8217;s food choices and eating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYC Schools &#8212; Healthier Vending</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1549</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Schools, New Rules on Snacks for Sale
By JENNIFER MEDINA

New vending machine contracts expected to be approved on Wednesday could mean less junk food — and less money for schools — as the Education Department tries to promote healthier choices for students.
One contract would give exclusive drink machine rights to CC Vending, a Bronx company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The School Lunch Revolution on CNN</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1548</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Embedded video from CNN Video
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		<title>Rachel Maddow Outs Rick Berman</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1546</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have to watch this!  On a personal level, Berman went after me one time &#8211; when I said really crazy shit like: &#8221;There&#8217;s Mad-Cow in the food supply,&#8221; and &#8220;We should eat less meat.&#8221; 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/
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		<title>Healthy School Lunches!!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1544</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to Pack a Healthy Lunchbox
Monday , September 28, 2009
By Elena Ferretti

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Many parents want to give their children a healthy lunch, but it’s not always so easy. They often don’t know what to buy, don’t have the time to shop for it, and, when they’re trying to get everyone out the door in the morning, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco students demanding healthy school lunch YEA!!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1541</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The social justice issue of our time is assuring that no child is hungry at school and that the food we feed them is healthy and delicious. I totally support these students working toward that end and we all need to help and support them.&#8221;

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		<title>GMO Beets Rejected &#8211; YEA!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 by the San Francisco Chronicle
Court Rejects Genetically Modified Sugar Beets
by Bob Egelko
SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; The government illegally approved a genetically modified, herbicide-resistant strain of sugar beets without adequately considering the chance they will contaminate other beet crops, a federal judge in San Francisco has ruled.
The ruling by U.S. District [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Agencies Fail to Protect Our Children</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1533</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GAO audit: Schools slow to get alerts about tainted food
By Peter Eisler and Blake Morrison, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Federal agencies that supply food for 31 million schoolchildren fail to ensure that tainted products are pulled quickly from cafeterias, a federal audit obtained by USA TODAY finds.The delays raise the risk of children being sickened by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthy Food Equals Healthy Children!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Schools must lead healthy foods effort
Ann Cooper and Beth Collins
The Obama administration has declared the dire state of our health care system one of our country&#8217;s most pressing challenges.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have stated that of the children born in the year 2000, 1 out of 3 Caucasians and 2 out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listen to Heritage Radio on School Lunch</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.heritageradionetwork.com/archives?search=ann+cooper
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		<title>Fixing School Lunch</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1519</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading and Writing and Rigatoni: What&#8217;s for Lunch at School?
By Jennifer LaRue Huget
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Ann Cooper has been trying to fix school lunches for a decade.
&#8220;We need to stop our children from dying from diet-related diseases,&#8221; she says. She cites federal statistics that show a third of children are overweight or obese, conditions that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lunch Box</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1518</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think outside the box
The school lunch box, that is. What will kids eat?
By BETH D&#8217;ADDONO
Philadelphia Daily News
For the Daily News
ANABEL SHAFFER Barnett admits that she&#8217;s a picky eater. The eight-year-old won&#8217;t eat meat, and there are only a few vegetables that she enjoys. &#8220;My favorite is mac and cheese,&#8221; said the West Chester soon-to-be third [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BVSD Training for the Opening of Schools: check out the news report</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ http://media.vmsnews.com/MR.pl?id=083109-3087166-M002032236
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		<title>Making School Lunch Part of Our Health Care Debate!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1516</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Schools must lead healthy foods effort
Ann Cooper, Beth Collins
Sunday, August 30, 2009
The Obama administration has declared the dire state of our health care system one of our country&#8217;s most pressing challenges.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have stated that of the children born in the year 2000, 1 out of 3 Caucasians and 2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kids &amp; Eating: How Can We All Help</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1515</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 30, 2009
Parenting and Food: Eat Your Peas. Or Don’t. Whatever.
By FRANK BRUNI
The boy sneaks food. I’ve seen him. His appetite is formidable, and he knowingly eats more than he should or must, to the steady concern and occasional consternation of his parents.
Sometimes they keep count: “How many pretzels?” Sometimes they vainly suggest an apple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School Lunch Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1513</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Not Enough Cooks in the Kitchen: How to Join the Healthy School Cafeteria Revolution
Eliza Barclay
August 19, 2009




School cafeterias were once the domain of hardworking women (and men) who prepared food by hand with mostly fresh ingredients. But all that changed when the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) began subsidizing food for school districts in 1958, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School Food Reform on the Forefront!!!</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1512</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. school lunch reform may open opportunity menu
Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:38pm EDT
By Lisa Baertlein &#8211; Analysis
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) &#8211; School lunch is back on the U.S. policy menu for the first time in decades, thanks to President Barack Obama&#8217;s drive to make school food more nutritious and healthy.
Like any reform effort in Washington these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grist says: Let&#8217;s (re)Do School Lunch</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1508</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Kurt Michael Friese

Posted on Grist.org

There has been a cultural revolution in this country over the last 50 to 75 years, a sort of intellectual cleansing that has removed from most people’s minds any understanding of food, of cooking, of the pleasures of the kitchen and table, and replaced it with the language of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chef Ann on Metro Farm Radio</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click this link to listen to Chef Ann or use the player below&#8230;
http://www.metrofarm.com/assets/podcasts/2009-08-15_647dschoollunch.mp3
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		<title>Whole Foods/Cooper &#8211;  School Food Partnership</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Los Angeles Times
Whole Foods, Ann Cooper hope to reform school cafeterias
August 13, 2009 &#124; 11:55 am
Whole Foods is partnering with Ann Cooper, who helped reform the school food program in Berkeley, to help other schools improve what they serve to the 30 million children who eat school lunches in the U.S.
By launching the project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Cost of School Lunch</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s Talk Honestly About Improving School Food
by Dana Woldow‚ Aug. 12‚ 2009 
As students get ready to head back to their classrooms, it’s time to have an honest conversation about how to improve school food, including what the costs really are. After seven years of working for better food in our public schools, one thing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kim Severson; NYT &#8211; School Food Report Card</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1488</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[School Lunch Report Card
By Kim Severson
Although many parents are still boiling corn and shaking the sand out of bathing suits, their focus will soon turn to school and the cafeteria food that goes along with it.
To that end, the  School Nutrition Association, tomorrow morning will release its bi-annual State of School Nutrition report.
The survey, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chef Ann Cooper Partners with Whole Foods Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whole Foods Market(R) and Chef Ann Cooper Partner to Launch thelunchbox.org &#8211; A First-of-its-Kind Online Toolbox &#8211; To Support Healthier School Lunches
Calls for Public to Join &#8216;School Lunch Revolution&#8217; Aimed at Transforming School Menus Across United States Partners Travel to Washington, D.C., to Raise Awareness, Seek Changes to the National School Lunch Program
Press Release
Source: Whole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vilsack Promoting Food/Land/Garden Connection</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1486</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, 2009 &#8211; Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today encouraged Americans to connect with the land, the food it grows and their local communities by proclaiming August 23-29, National Community Gardening Week. A community garden is an opportunity to educate everyone about from where food comes, whether that is a Farmers Market or a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5280 Magazine: Chef Ann</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life  According To&#8230; Ann Cooper
Chef Ann Cooper has  overhauled school lunch menus across the country. Now she&#8217;s doing it in Boulder.  5280 talks with this school lunch rebel about lunch ladies, school gardens, and  the health of our kids.

By Amanda M. Faison
August 2009
First in East Hampton, New York, then in Berkeley, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunchroom Updates</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
School Lunch Updates:
 
&#8220;Lunch Lessons&#8221; by Ann Cooper.
How the USDA Helped Bring Processed Food to School Lunch
Most adults don’t have glorious memories of  school lunch. It was sloppy Joes, shepherd’s pie, spaghetti with meat sauce, and  it was usually on the bland side. But the food wasn’t bad, and it was almost  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poster Girls for Healthier Lunches</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miami girl a poster child for healthier lunches
An advocacy group hoping to boost consumption of fruits  and veggies found a Miami girl to push its cause.
// < ![CDATA[
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Posters with Jasmine Messiah go up this week at the  Union Station Amtrak and commuter rail station in Washington.








Photo







By LESLEY CLARK

lclark@MiamiHerald.com


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		<title>Boulder Valley Announces Cooper as Director</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[News Release
6500 East Arapahoe Road, Boulder, CO 80301
7/29/2009
For Immediate Release
 Contact:
Briggs Gamblin, BVSD Communications
720-561-5823
briggs.gamblin@bvsd.org
Renegade Lunch Lady Chef Ann Cooper Named BVSD Interim School Nutrition Director
BVSD’s School Food Project Takes Healthier Food to Next Level With Chef Ann Cooper and All BVSD Nutrition Services Staff
BOULDER &#8212; It’s official.  Nationally renowned “Renegade Lunch Lady” Chef Ann [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Chef Ann</title>
		<link>http://www.chefann.com/blog/archives/1477</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Renegade Lunch Lady &#8211; An Interview with Ann Cooper
Chef Ann Cooper calls herself the renegade lunch lady. She works to transform school cafeterias into culinary classrooms for students and change school districts’ policies on food spending in favor of foods that are fresh, regional, organic, seasonal and sustainable. Ann has revamped and reformed public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunch Ladies Ask DC for Healthier School Food</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Lunch ladies&#8217; go to D.C. to lobby for better school food
July 29, 2009 
BY DUAA ELDEIB Staff Writer

Before the clock strikes 7:30 a.m., Veronica Mendoza is at Tinley Park High School.
She pulls back her hair, pulls on her apron and chops.
Tomatoes. Cucumbers. Celery. Radishes. Two kinds of lettuce.
Mendoza has 18 little sections to fill on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthy School Birthday Celebrations &#8211; YEA!!!!!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please, no sweets for school parties
Move to no longer allow recess to be a reward or punishment.
By Meagan Engle, Staff Writer
Updated 2:09 AM Sunday, July 26, 2009
MIDDLETOWN — This school year, Middletown City Schools students will celebrate birthdays and holidays with mixed fruit instead of confetti cupcakes, and pretzels instead of potato chips.
The district is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Food: Helping to change children&#8217;s relationship to food.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From school yards to school gardens
BY Elizabeth Lazarowitz 
Tuesday, July 14th 2009, 9:39 AM 
It&#8217;s a rural lesson in an urban jungle.
Students at 10 Brooklyn schools will be toiling in the soil this summer and fall, growing vegetables to feed their classmates as part of an effort to get student-grown foods into the school cafeteria.
&#8220;We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Non-profit&#8217;s Fixing School Lunch &#8211; Perhaps an Idea Who&#8217;s Time Has Come</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A School Lunch Non-Profit?
Thomas Kim, the chief financial officer of Baltimore’s health department, suggests over on the Audacious Ideas blog that non-profit organizations could be the solution for school food.
“A non-profit organization would hire staff to utilize the cooking kitchens already in place in schools, and reinvest all revenue back into the quality and production [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Should ALL Care about school lunch!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why a Twenty-Something Should Care About School Lunch
Eating Culture Food Policy Health Take Action
July 9th, 2009
By Claire Stanford
For many twenty-somethings like myself, issues like school lunch can be murky and distant. I’m not eating school lunch; nor do I have children who are eating school lunch (nor will I in the foreseeable future). When I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheap &#8211; Unhealthy School Lunches &#8211; But Why?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tasty and cheap, but &#8230;
Cost constraints and students&#8217; palates often make school lunches  unhealthful

Sunday,  July 5, 2009 3:34 AM


By Jennifer Smith  Richards

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH




Pizza, tater tots, hot dogs and tacos are on school lunch menus  even though those kid-friendly staples might not be the most healthful choices.One reason: Kids like them. Another: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students WANT Better Food!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning to eat
Racine group wants students to Eat Right — in school and at home
By David Steinkraus
dsteinkraus@journaltimes.com
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 3:46 PM CDT
They don’t want to point fingers or assign blame, but a group of Racine residents does want to see change come to school lunch programs. That’s how it began. Now they want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USDA &#8211; UNhealthy School Lunch &amp; Commodity Food</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brasher: USDA buys what kids eat, despite food chart
By PHILIP BRASHER
pbrasher@dmreg.com 
Washington, D.C. — The government wants kids to eat more fruits and vegetables but doesn&#8217;t seem to be putting its money where its advice is.
For every dollar that the U.S. Department of Agriculture spent buying commodities for school lunches last year, 55 cents went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School Districts Serving More Healthy Alternatives!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ky. Schools&#8217; Healthy Example Could Shape a National Policy
By Jane Black
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 29, 2009 
It didn&#8217;t seem like a radical idea at the time. First, Ginger Gray, the food service director for Kenton County, Ky., schools, took away fried potato chips, offering students baked versions instead. Next, she phased out fruit drinks [...]]]></description>
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