This dairy - free whipped topping has become quite popular among the health community lately, but I've been hesitant to try it due to
my lack of kitchen equipment... I've never owned an electric mixer!
Cooking and blogging haven't been the easiest while I've been away in Geneva - both for lack of time and
lack of kitchen equipment and ingredients!
Not exact matches
Ms. Woldow's statement for
lack of funding for
kitchen equipment is mark on.
Many are
lacking key pieces
of kitchen equipment that would help them prepare fresh, wholesome school meals, according to a recent report from the Kids» Safe and Healthful Food Project.
The sad reality, as I have said many times before, is that our school meal programs are almost criminally underfunded; our schools mostly
lack kitchens, with some literally operating the meal program out
of a closet, and even the schools with
kitchens from 40 or 50 years ago
lack equipment with which to scratch cook.
I get it that JO has brought more attention to the school food issue, but it is so often the wrong kind
of attention, the kind that seeks to blame those lowest on the food chain — the cafeteria ladies, the local schools, the local nutrition director — for problems which are coming from the top — the criminally low Federal funding that forces schools to rely on cheap processed food; the thicket
of government regulation which must be followed no matter how senseless, and hoops which must be jumped through to get the pitifully low reimbursement; the
lack of ongoing Federal funds to pay for
equipment repair or
kitchen renovation, forcing schools to rely on preprocessed food instead
of scratch cooking, unless they can pass the hat locally to pay for a central
kitchen to cook fresh meals.
With reports that some small schools struggle to provide free infant meals due to a
lack of space or facilities, CESA's Keith Warren shares some
of the latest space - saving
equipment to help small
kitchens to still deliver a quality food service.
Fires involving grease in the
kitchen or flammable liquids, and fires in homes
lacking fire - extinguishing
equipment can quickly grow out
of control.