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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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My Daughter Asks for Water, Her Teacher Hands Her a Coke - The Lunch Tray

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Kids and food, in school and out. My Daughter Asks for Water, Her Teacher Hands Her a Coke. April 24, 2012. By Bettina Elias Siegel. As you know, I’m no fan of handing out of candy for academic performance or good behavior, but since my children’s elementary school changed principals a few years ago, the incidence of candy rewards in the classroom has dropped off considerably. Um, not so much. And 12 oz cans of Coke ( 39 grams of sugar. And here’s the kicker: yesterday my daughter moved on to the n...

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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: 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: 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...

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Better D.C. School Food: Kids Make Spaetzle

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Better D.C. School Food. Monday, April 23, 2012. Spaetzle: messy but good. Aka The Slow Cook. Marco Polo notwithstanding, most food cultures seem to have some version of a noodle in their culinary arsenals. Germany may have the messiest. Called "spaetzle"- or "little sparrows"- this noodle starts with a sticky dough that falls somewhere between pancake batter and library paste and must be pressed through holes into a pot of boiling water. Some cooks improvise by pressing the dough through a colander....

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Better D.C. School Food: January 2012

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Better D.C. School Food. Friday, January 27, 2012. Kids Make Zucchini Bread. Squeezing water out of zucchini. Aka The Slow Cook. The secret to a great zucchini bread, apparently, is getting the water out of the zucchini. One of the kids wanted to taste the water after we'd given the sugar treatment. We did. Not bad! Green and sweet.). Meanwhile, whisk together 2 cups all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda and 1/2 teaspoon salt. These are your dry ingredients for the bread.

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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...