Who knew getting Garam Masala could be such a difficult task? The New York Times chronicles one school’s struggle to bring healthy food to the cafeteria. M.S. 137 in Ozone Park, Queens is just one of the many schools that must face the problems of aging ovens, frozen food and picky eaters. Schools must combat [...]

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The city of Baltimore is taking significant steps towards local, sustainable and healthy school lunches. Tony Geraci, the system’s new director of food and nutrition, is working to get frozen, TV dinner-style meals out and fresh food in. Maryland grown fruits and vegetables are showing up in cafeterias,  and meat has been taken off the [...]

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Yesterday on the subway, I was reading the Daily News over someone’s shoulder, and in an almost full page article the title read, “Organic food isn’t healthier than non-organic, new study reports.” How ridiculous is that statement? In the article it turns out that the scientists were only addressing the nutritional value of the food, [...]

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Between 1845 and 1852, Ireland experienced a great famine that devastated its population, largely due to a mold known as “late blight,” which caused potato plants to rot and die. Some estimates put the 1845 potato crop failure rate as high as 50%.
If you’re not a farmer or gardener, you may ask why I’m bringing [...]

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The organic food that you’re buying may not be 100% organic and therefore discredits the integrity of the organic certification. That is the basic gist of The Washington Post’s much deliberated article, “Purity of Federal ‘Organic’ Label is Questioned“, published July 3rd. It is a well-known fact that the organic certification is not perfect nor [...]

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On June 26th, the House of Representatives voted on the Waxman-Markey Bill to address climate change. It passed narrowly with 219 aye and 212 nay votes.  The American Clean Energy Security Act (as it is otherwise known), sponsored by Reps. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Ed Markey (D-MA), aims to cut emissions below the 2005 level [...]

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On Sunday, author, educator and nutrition expert Marion Nestle answered some questions surrounding “organic”. This is quite the loaded term these days, and can mean different things depending on who’s using it. For a big corporation, organic may mean no pesticides, but the crops could still be raised as a monoculture. Some smaller farms are [...]

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With the Child Nutrition Act expiring September 30th, 2009, it’s time to take action and push for healthy food in America’s schools. Obesity is on the rise and health problems such as diabetes and heart disease are sky rocketing. One of the best places we can start to curb these problems is in schools, where [...]

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Great article on agriculture and developing countries by Paula Crossfield, editor of Civil Eats. Everyone’s always talking about “feeding the poor”, but rarely do the solutions work. They tried with the “Green Evolution” in India, but just like in the states, India is  feeling the effects of depleted water tables, soil erosion and having a [...]

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Not too long ago I wrote a blog about “Food Deserts” and what New York City has been doing to stop the spread of them. That blog contained positive news about programs such as Healthy Food/Healthy Communities and the FRESH program that Governor Patterson, Mayor Bloomberg and Speaker Quinn instated. Now even more is being [...]

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