California Strikes Gold: $200 Million for Access to Fresh FoodJuly 30th, 2011 - Jill Ettinger
Californians may have just spotted a gem amidst the rubble of America’s crumbling economy: The California FreshWorks Fund is a $200 million public-private partnership aimed at increasing healthy and affordable food for the state’s most challenged communities. Read More:California Strikes Gold: $200 Million for Access to Fresh FoodObamas to Unveil New Food Pyramid ReplacementJune 1st, 2011 - Jill Ettinger
More often than not, food comes on a plate, not a pyramid. The Obama administration agrees with this logic and will be doing away with the food pyramid, designed as a nutritional reference for healthy eating, and replacing it with a “plate” wedged out with the basic food groups Americans are advised to be eating daily. Read More:Obamas to Unveil New Food Pyramid ReplacementAmerica’s ‘Food Deserts’ Target of New USDA MapMay 10th, 2011 - Jill Ettinger
If you live near a “food desert,” you’re among more than 13 million Americans—most often low-income families—who have little if any fresh food nearby, and the USDA has launched a tool to prove it. Read More:America’s ‘Food Deserts’ Target of New USDA MapForget the Juice Box: Brown Bag Lunches Banned from SchoolsApril 14th, 2011 - Jill Ettinger
With a number of regulatory efforts underway to guarantee that school lunches are becoming more nutritious, one obvious issue had been overlooked until now: the brown bag. Read More:Forget the Juice Box: Brown Bag Lunches Banned from SchoolsMichelle Obama’s Bee Hive is Buzzing for SpringMarch 29th, 2011 - Jill Ettinger
Spring in Washington DC can only mean one thing: Michelle Obama’s bees are busy pollinating. The First Lady, who is known for her outspoken commitment to healthy food initiatives, has also been keeping a beehive on the property in addition to her plentiful White House garden. Read More:Michelle Obama’s Bee Hive is Buzzing for SpringObama’s ‘Chef’s Move to Schools’ Program Sees Bright FutureFebruary 8th, 2011 - Jill Ettinger
Late last month, Sam Kass, the Senior Policy Adviser for the Healthy Food Initiatives program, and the USDA’s deputy under secretary, Dr. Janey Thornton, visited Edgewater High School in Orlando, Florida to participate in pilot efforts of Michelle Obama’s Chef’s Move to Schools program. Read More:Obama’s ‘Chef’s Move to Schools’ Program Sees Bright FutureUSDA to Make School Lunches HealthierJanuary 25th, 2011 - Jill Ettinger
Michelle Obama is on her way to becoming better known as a gardener, beekeeper and health advocate than the First Lady. Her Let’s Move! Campaign led to the President signing the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 just over a month ago, which is focused on providing nutrition platforms to improve the health of students by eliminating nutritional deficiencies and risks for diseases including childhood diabetes and obesity. Read More:USDA to Make School Lunches HealthierMichael Pollan Wants Your “Food Rules”November 24th, 2010 - Gerald "Gerry" Pugliese
If you’re looking for a food role model, Michael Pollan is a good choice. He’s not a “diet guru” trying to hawk miracle pills, nor is he a celebrity personal training. Michael is a journalist and he’s been writing about food and nutrition for a long time, so the guy knows a lot about diet, minus all the snake oil selling. And now, the author of four New York Times bestsellers, most notably the Omnivore’s Dilemma in 2006, is looking for your nuggets of food wisdom or advice for the next edition of his book Food Rules. You can email him. Read More:Michael Pollan Wants Your “Food Rules”Michael Pollan Dishes on Michelle Obama and Food RulesJune 22nd, 2010 - Scott Shaffer
The Seattle Times interviewed food movement hero Michael Pollan about his latest book, Food Rules, the state of the food in America, and Michelle Obama. About the first lady, Pollan says,
Like Michael Pollan, Organic Authority is excited about several projects that the First Lady has been working on, from school lunch reform to the new-and-improved White House garden to her campaign to end childhood obesity. Pollan also talks about his next book, which is going to be about how we turn raw ingredients into food through cooking and fermentation:
Leave it to Michael Pollan to make chemistry interesting and important! Until the book comes out, you can check out this video of Laura tasting organic wine and cheese, this article on organic wines, and this recipe for blue cheese cabernet organic hamburgers. Yum! That should tide you over. Image credit: Poptech Read More:Michael Pollan Dishes on Michelle Obama and Food RulesMichelle Obama Enjoys Sustainable Fine Dining in West HollywoodJune 17th, 2010 - Scott Shaffer
The First Lady Michelle Obama took her daughters out to Los Angeles restaurant Lucques for Sunday supper. Obama Foodorama reports that Michelle, Malia, and Sasha made the trek up from the Camp Pendleton Marine base in San Diego County to have dinner in the city of angels. Good choice. Lucques is a great restaurant in West Hollywood that supports sustainable agriculture and serves innovative and mouth-watering dishes like “grilled lamb sandwich with chickpea purée, french feta and tapenade” and “pan-roasted market fish with black rice, haricot verts, green garlic and roasted apricots.” Lucques’s head chef and creator, Suzanne Goin, is something of a legend among L.A. foodies. The venerable Alice Waters wrote the foreword to Goin’s book Sunday Suppers at Lucques: Seasonal Recipes from Market to Table. It’s great to see the First Lady supporting sustainable food—and showing that kids don’t always need to eat fried chicken nuggets—but she’s also doing us all a favor by showing that sustainable can be fashionable. Seasonal menus, organic ingredients, and eco-friendly attitudes are three great tastes that taste great together. It’s not always easy being green, but the Obamas show how it can be fun. So go out and live a little! Read More:Michelle Obama Enjoys Sustainable Fine Dining in West Hollywood |
