Sentences with phrase «school food reformers»

However, stories like this one just add fuel to the «large school districts are just inefficient in the way they spend their money» fire, and weakens what should be the unified message of school food reformers — «it just costs more to do it right.»

The book concludes with «Mrs. Q's Guide to Quiet Revolution: An Action and Resource Guide» which provides advice for different stakeholders — parents, teachers, kids, teenagers, chefs and nutritionists — as well as a Resources Guide to point would - be school food reformers toward helpful organizations, blogs and reading material.

This is all a long way of explaining why I am SO excited that Dana and her fellow California school food reformers have now put all of their knowledge, advice and resources into a single, free website called PEACHSF.org.

Successful school food reformers, even if they are working with more money than most, still have much to teach us.

I think one of the hardest lessons for school food reformers to learn is that many good ideas which seem like they would be easy to do, and inexpensive, rarely turn out to be that in reality.

My sources for most food reform issues are, most notably, Free for All: Fixing School Food in America, by Janet Poppendieck, but also countless other books, articles, blog posts, and phone conversations with other school food reformers around the country.

Kristi: I actually took a lot of heat a while back for not just defending milk but defending the dreaded flavored milk — or at least questioning why school food reformers were so focused on flavored milk versus versus many other, worse problems in the school lunch program.

When school food reformers play fast and loose with the facts, it tarnishes the credibility of everyone working towards better school food.

It's disheartening to realize that a leading school food reformer like Chef Ann faces the same problem, even in a place like Boulder, which has shown clear community - wide support for reform.

I wanted to share her concerns about the new regulations, concerns which in many ways echo those of Justin Gagnon, CEO of Choicelunch (a private school meal catering service), whose views I shared in an earlier post, and those of school food reformer Dana Woldow.

However, this morning I found two new comments on the blog left by a reader named Dana — whom, I should mention at the outset, is not Dana Woldow, the San Francisco school food reformer who often comments here and is no great fan of Jamie.

(For more on the funding issue, check out school food reformer Dana Woldow «s excellent piece on how the new nutrition requirements will effectively force many districts, especially those in which labor and food costs are high, to start (or continue) dipping into classroom funds to pay for school meals.)

Most of those links were sent to me by Dana Woldow, the San Francisco school food reformer behind the great website, PEACHSF, and ever since then she's been passing on to me similar news stories whenever she finds them.

(I'm going to ask Dana Woldow, San Francisco school food reformer, for her take here in case I'm reading this incorrectly.)

San Francisco school food reformer Dana Woldow has published an excellent piece today that should be required reading for anyone interested in improving school food.

I was prepared to ruffle some feathers but I still breathed a sigh of relief when I read a recent article by Dana Woldow, San Francisco school food reformer and creator of PEACHSF.org, entitled «Chocolate Milk in Schools: Ban It, Keep It or Change It?

But I also linked to an article by San Francisco school food reformer Dana Woldow («Jamie Oliver: You Should Be Ashamed of Yourself «-RRB- in which she excoriates J.O. for his treatment on the show of Ray Cortines, former LAUSD Superintendent.

-LSB-...] food reform (see, e.g., the quote from Justin Gagnon, CEO of Choicelunch, in my post, as well as this article from San Francisco school food reformer Dana Woldow).

That topic is discussed in - depth in school food reformer Dana Woldow's recent interview of Justin Gagnon, CEO of Choicelunch.

It's written by Dana Woldow, a school food reformer in San Francisco, and it provides a wealth of practical information.

In the meantime, I turned to my most trusted resource for «real world» school food information, San Francisco school food reformer Dana Woldow.

On tap for this week's Lunch Buffet: all Jamie, all the time; a dose of reality from a school food reformer; and a word of warning to Lunch Tray readers carrying a few extra pounds — and with plans to emigrate to New Zealand (all one of you.)

Yesterday, Education News published a critical opinion piece by school food reformer Dana Woldow regarding Jamie Oliver's recent foray into education reform.

Today San Francisco school food reformer Dana Woldow answers that question with a resounding «no.»

As a result, I decided to ask Dana Woldow, a school food reformer in San Francisco, to guest blog about the realities her community has faced (financial and otherwise) in trying to improve school food there.

As it happens, TLT friend and school food reformer Dana Woldow, along with her videographer son, Max Schreiber (who once created a great little video for this blog) won a prize for their video, along with thirteen other entrants chosen from hundreds of submissions.

Last week, school food reformer Dana Woldow published an excellent take - d0wn of a widely circulated AP story that left most readers with the impression that the new healthier school meal standards are a big flop.

San Francisco school food reformer Dana Woldow had a piece last month which demonstrated how these grain / meat limits can really complicate a district's menu planning, a sentiment shared by a source to whom I spoke in my own district, Houston ISD.

But I'm back to work today and wanted to share with you another solid article from Dana Woldow, the school food reformer in San Francisco USD.

Intrepid school food reformer Dana Woldow actually took the time to get statistics on some of the schools reportedly boycotting school food.

But in another context (criticizing Jamie Oliver, not responding to my Slate essay), school food reformer Dana Woldow once left this comment on TLT:

But even putting aside concerns about sugar, San Francisco school food reformer Dana Woldow (of PEACHSF.org) recently undertook a careful economic analysis of school bake sales, looking at the cost of ingredients and parent time / labor and questioning whether it's an effective school fundraiser in the first place.

On tap for this week's Lunch Buffet: all Jamie, all the time; a dose of reality from a school food reformer; and a word of warning to Lunch Tray readers carrying a few extra pounds — and with plans to emigrate to New Zealand (all one of... [Continue reading]

: — LRB - But I'm back to work today and wanted to share with you another solid article from Dana Woldow, the school food reformer in San Francisco USD.

Dana Woldow, San Francisco school food reformer and founder of the school food advocacy website PEACHSF, has a new article this week that I wanted to share.

-LSB-...] school food reformer Dana Woldow).

As a result, I decided to ask Dana Woldow, a school food reformer in San Francisco, to guest blog about the realities her community has faced (financial and otherwise) in trying to improve school -LSB-...]

(For more on the funding issue, check out school food reformer Dana -LSB-...]

For more on that troubling arrangement, be sure to read this Beyond Chron piece by school food reformer Dana Woldow, this HuffPo piece by food advocate Nancy Huenergarth, and this critical post from Food Politics «Marion Nestle.

While the blog was devoted exclusively to the LFTB issue, San Francisco school food reformer Dana Woldow (creator of the immensely useful school food reform how - to site, PEACHSF.org) wrote two important articles in Beyond Chron about an issue often discussed here on TLT: social stigma in the school cafeteria.

In an important piece written on today's Beyond Chron, school food reformer Dana Woldow explains why so many of us who care about kids» health feel uneasy about the SNA's true priorities.

This recent article by San Francisco school food reformer Dana Woldow describes the struggles of some districts in California to meet not just the new federal mandate to have drinking water available, but also a California state law requiring the same thing.

That's why I've been very interested in the comments left on yesterday's post by two readers — Dana Woldow, the San Francisco school food reformer, and Justin Gagnon, CEO of a school lunch catering service, Choicelunch.

Today's guest blogger, San Francisco school food reformer Dana Woldow, does a great job of laying out all the factors one should consider in figuring out whether and how to emulate a school or district that seems to be getting school food right.]

Not exact matches

The audience is American families, not wonky school - food reformers.

What Kate Adamick was addressing were frustrations from colleagues that JO was getting credit for something (raising awareness about «the catastrophe that is school food») that grassroots reformers had been working on for years.

School food reform is hard enough to achieve when the reformers are on the same page.

Reformers like Dr. Susan Rubin urge us to visit our lunchrooms often, to taste the food, to take pictures, and to talk to kids, because what we see printed on the school menu is often inaccurate or misleading.