I was feeling postively electric last week after my first meeting with Valley City's
Public School Food Service Director, Sue Milender.
Not exact matches
We discussed the final regulations, and how the new standards differ from current requirements, with moderator Cindy Brooks, Chair of the
School Nutrition Association
Public Policy & Legislation Committee and guest speakers Sam Kass (White House Assistant Chef, Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy
Food Initiatives), Dr. Janey Thornton, PhD, SNS (Deputy Under Secretary for
Food, Nutrition, and Consumer
Services at USDA), and Melissa Rothstein (Deputy
Director, Child Nutrition Programs at USDA).
Janis Groomes,
food service director at Northport
Public Schools, knows the power of
school gardens to get kids interested in eating fruits and vegetables, even ones that are unusual...
The Chicago
Public School food service department will try both the
food - based and nutrient - based programs for what best fits its 600 lunch programs, says Jack Costello,
food service director.
Beyond Breakfast sat down with Jessica Shelly (RS, REHS, MBA),
Food Services Director of Cincinnati
Public Schools to talk about her
school breakfast program.
The 2018
School Nutrition Heroes are: Paula Angelucci, Child Nutrition
Director, Colonial
School District, New Castle (DE); Anthony Terrell, Culinary Specialist, Shelby County
Schools, Memphis (TN); April Laskey, SNS,
Director of
School Nutrition, Billerica
Public Schools, Billerica (MA); Lynne Shore,
Food Service Director, Willamina
School District, Willamina (OR) and Patricia Urbanczyk, Kitchen Manager,
School City of Hammond, Hammond (IN).
«Distribution and supply make it difficult (for producers) to contribute fresh fruits and vegetables (through the commodities program),» said Claudie Phillips, assistant
director of the department of
food services for Chicago
Public Schools.
We love this interview with Tom Tanner,
director of
food services for Rochester
schools in New Hampshire; listen as Tanner makes the case for breakfast - in - the - classroom during an appearance on New Hampshire
Public Radio.
They have a high bar to reach considering the Senate plan was passed unanimously out of Committee and is supported by such a broad range of stakeholders — everyone ranging from retired military leaders to the
public health community to anti-hunger groups to
school food service directors.
In Denver, Donna Wittrock, the
public schools»
food services director, took the whole thing so seriously she even checked scientific literature.
D.C.
Public Schools Fires
Director of
Food Services Amid Fight Over How Student Meals Are Served (The DCist.com, January 15, 2013)
Around that same time, D.C.
Public Schools hired a new
food services director, Jeffrey Mills, who scoured the entire Chartwells menu item - by - item, removing the flavored milk and processed treats and replacing many of the familiar re-heated lunch items.
This year, Denver
Public Schools students have already harvested more than 1,000 pounds of garden produce for
school lunches as part of a program cooked up by
school food service director Leo Lesh.
The cooperative procurement group represents 180 Vermont
public schools, and is cochaired by Burlington's Doug Davis, along with founder Bob Clifford,
food service director of Chittenden Central Supervisory Union.
«They (students) do n`t seem to care for the casserole - type
foods any more, the hearty meals, so we have to cater to those needs, «says Phillips, who recently was named acting
director of
food services for Chicago
Public Schools.
The information presented in this report is based on a self - administered, online survey of
school food service directors or their designees (primarily
food service managers) from a nationally representative sample of the administrators of
public school food authorities.
Andrew Nowak, project
director for Slow
Food Denver, a grassroots organization that promotes local, sustainable food, explained that his organization formed a partnership with the Food and Nutrition Services Department of the Denver Public Schools to help bring locally grown foods into scho
Food Denver, a grassroots organization that promotes local, sustainable
food, explained that his organization formed a partnership with the Food and Nutrition Services Department of the Denver Public Schools to help bring locally grown foods into scho
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Food and Nutrition Services Department of the Denver Public Schools to help bring locally grown foods into scho
Food and Nutrition
Services Department of the Denver
Public Schools to help bring locally grown foods into s
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The final, signed letter was sent yesterday to the SNA board by Miguel Villarreal,
director of
food and nutrition
services for the Novato Unified
School District in Novato, California, and Allyson Mrachek, nutrition supervisor at Fayetteville
Public Schools in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Ellen Haas has spent a good portion of her adult life trying to improve the nutrition of the nation's
school lunch program, first as the founder and
director of the consumer group
Public Voice, and in the last two years as Department of Agriculture undersecretary of
food, nutrition and consumer
services.
«Nutrition should be taught in the elementary grades and we should be following up with lunches that reflect sound nutrition,» says Claudie Phillips, assistant
director of
food service for Chicago
Public Schools.
«Allowing individual states to design their own benchmarks for the program could result in inequities in many
school districts, including Chicago,» said Jack Costello,
director of
food services for Chicago
Public Schools.
Becky Domokos - Bays, PhD, RD, SNS
Director of
Food and Nutrition
Services for Alexandria City
Public Schools, VA
School Nutrition Association member
Another of our favorite pieces is from August 2012; read our interview with Jessica Shelly,
Food Services Director at Des Moines
Public Schools, to learn about how reimbursable vending machines changed the
school breakfast landscape.
Jeffrey Mills, former
Director of
Food and Nutrition
Services for D.C.
Public Schools is photographed at his home on April 30, 2014 in Washington, D.C. Mills was fired from his job after he reported mismanagement, fraud, and overfilling by one of the
school system's largest contractors.
Jeffrey Mills, former
director of
food and nutrition
services for D.C.
Public Schools, was fired from his job after he alleged mismanagement and fraud.
In this post from the Let's Move Blog, author Jennifer Seymour talks about Chef Tim Cipriano, the Executive
Director of
Food Services at New Haven
Public Schools who was able to get salad bars into almost all of his schools thi
Schools who was able to get salad bars into almost all of his
schools thi
schools this year.
Nancy Weiss
Food Service Director, Santa Barbara (CA) Public Schools To tackle the stigma of free and reduced lunches in the high schools, Weiss has five «Mobile Cafes» (trendy food trucks donated by The Orfalea Foundation) that park outside the school and sell nutritious reimbursable meals to the high school students who otherwise might leave cam
Food Service Director, Santa Barbara (CA)
Public Schools To tackle the stigma of free and reduced lunches in the high schools, Weiss has five «Mobile Cafes» (trendy food trucks donated by The Orfalea Foundation) that park outside the school and sell nutritious reimbursable meals to the high school students who otherwise might leave
Schools To tackle the stigma of free and reduced lunches in the high
schools, Weiss has five «Mobile Cafes» (trendy food trucks donated by The Orfalea Foundation) that park outside the school and sell nutritious reimbursable meals to the high school students who otherwise might leave
schools, Weiss has five «Mobile Cafes» (trendy
food trucks donated by The Orfalea Foundation) that park outside the school and sell nutritious reimbursable meals to the high school students who otherwise might leave cam
food trucks donated by The Orfalea Foundation) that park outside the
school and sell nutritious reimbursable meals to the high
school students who otherwise might leave campus.
«There's a disparity in the number of
schools that offer breakfast, and it's about 20,000
schools less,» says Jean Daniel,
public affairs
director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's
Food and Nutrition
Service.
Colorful fruit and vegetable characters appear on the menu and flyers that are posted at the serving lines on special days in the Fairfax County
Public Schools, where McConnell is
director of
Food and Nutrition
Services.