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Better D.C. School Food: February 2012
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Better D.C. School Food. Wednesday, February 29, 2012. Time to Take a Stand for Better D.C. School Food. What's for lunch these days? Aka The Slow Cook. DC is one of only a few large school districts nationwide that outsource their food service to companies like Chartwells, Sodexo and Aramark. Most districts know that the only way to feed kids well economically is by running their own kitchens. But making the switch takes lots of planning. It takes an entire community rallying around the impo...That's wh...
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Better D.C. School Food: Kids Make Cheese Fondue
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Better D.C. School Food. Monday, May 21, 2012. Kids Make Cheese Fondue. Hang on to your bread! Aka The Slow Cook. Years ago, in another lifetime as a budding newspaper reporter, I wrote a rather snooty piece for the Washington Post about the proper way to make Swiss fondue. We used non-alcoholic wine with the kids in our classes, for obvious reasons. Now you are ready to start dipping your bread. Make sure the bread is firmly skewered. The rule is, any girl who loses her bread in the pot has to k...Bette...
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Better D.C. School Food: Kids Make Mussels Venetian Style
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Better D.C. School Food. Friday, June 1, 2012. Kids Make Mussels Venetian Style. Sloppy eating at its best. Aka The Slow Cook. Our food appreciation classes landed in Venice this week and there are so many culinary adventures to be had in Italy I think we may be here for a while. Venice is famous for its art, its canals and its gondolas. But it also happens to be situated on the Adriatic. Consequently, Venetians love their seafood. Or even chilled served in the shell or in a salad. Better D.C. Sc...2009 ...
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Better D.C. School Food: Kids Make Wiener Schnitzel
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Better D.C. School Food. Friday, April 27, 2012. Kids Make Wiener Schnitzel. It takes a tough kid to make a tender schnitzel. Aka The Slow Cook. Our food appreciation classes have landed in Austria on their virtual world culinary tour and we went straight for a classic dish: Wiener schnitzel. That means veal cutlet in the Viennese style, traditionally pounded thin with a mallet, then dredged in bread crumbs and fried. Schnitzel with red cabbage and Caesar salad. We used our portable butane burner for thi...
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Better D.C. School Food: June 2012
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Better D.C. School Food. Friday, June 8, 2012. Goodbye to School Year: Kids Make Fettucine Alfredo. Lots of cream and butter make sloppy good eats. Aka The Slow Cook. How do you tempt kids off the playground on the last day of school? Tell 'em you've got fettucine Alfredo waiting for them in the multi-purpose room. How could kids not love it, especially when they get to crank out their own noodles on the pasta machine. Commerical pasta typically is made with semolina, a harder variety of flour. Semol...
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Better D.C. School Food: November 2011
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Better D.C. School Food. Sunday, November 20, 2011. Congress to Kids: Drop Dead! Congress puts corporate profits over kids' health. Aka The Slow Cook. Amid all the hysteria over pizza and potatoes this week the mainstream media missed the real story behind the USDA's embattled school nutrition guidelines by half and mangled the other half badly. The half they missed: These guidelines [PDF]. The part the media mangled: "Congress Declares Pizza to be a Vegetable! Or other screaming headlines to that effect.
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Better D.C. School Food: Kids Make Strawberry Shortcake
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Better D.C. School Food. Thursday, May 3, 2012. Kids Make Strawberry Shortcake. It doesn't get any better than this. Aka The Slow Cook. If there's a better dessert any simpler than strawberry shortcake, I don't know what it is. We don't go for that sugary, spongy stuff the supermarkets sell for shortcake. No, to my mind a genuine strawberry shortcake depends on a biscuit with perfect crumb, a biscuit with just enough savoriness to show off the ripe berries with a sweet dollop of whipped cream. This takes...
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Better D.C. School Food: Goodbye to School Year: Kids Make Fettucine Alfredo
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Better D.C. School Food. Friday, June 8, 2012. Goodbye to School Year: Kids Make Fettucine Alfredo. Lots of cream and butter make sloppy good eats. Aka The Slow Cook. How do you tempt kids off the playground on the last day of school? Tell 'em you've got fettucine Alfredo waiting for them in the multi-purpose room. How could kids not love it, especially when they get to crank out their own noodles on the pasta machine. Commerical pasta typically is made with semolina, a harder variety of flour. Semol...
