This year, The FEED Foundation, established in 2008 by Lauren Bush and Ellen Gustafson to raise funds for the United Nations World Food Program‘s school feeding initiative, turned its attention to school food in the United States with the launch of FEED USA: FEED USA is a new campaign to improve school food all across [...]
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Teach Your Children Well – 2 Organizations Intent on Changing What Kids Eat
Posted in Innovative Ideas, tagged DonorsChoose.org, FEED USA, FEED USA Bags, Food, Healthy Eating, Salads in Schools, School Gardens, School Lunches, The Feed Foundation, The Gap, Whole Foods Market on September 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
An Innovative Massachusetts Program Prescribes Produce for Better Health
Posted in Innovative Ideas, tagged CAVU, Farmers' Market Nutrition Programs, Food, Healthy Eating, Innovative Ideas, Prescriptions for Fresh Product, Quality of Life, The New York Times, Wholesome Wave on August 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I came across an enlightening piece, “Eat an Apple (Doctor’s Orders),” in the Food section of last Thursday’s New York Times. It describes an innovative nutrition program being run in Boston, “in which doctors write vegetable ‘prescriptions‘ to be filled at farmers’ markets.” Program participants receive coupons to be redeemed at the markets for fresh [...]
City Cupcakes – Teen Entrepreneurs Bake Up Sweet Perfection
Posted in Innovative Ideas, tagged Baking, City Cupcakes, Escondido, Farmers Markets, Food, High School Summer Job, San Diego, Teen Entrepreneurs on June 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I love a good cupcake almost as much as I love a good story. If you give me a fantastic cupcake hand-in-hand with a great story, well, that’s about as good as it gets. That’s exactly what I found in a cupcake booth at the weekly Scripps Ranch (San Diego, CA) farmers market. Escondido high [...]
Gwyneth Paltrow Hypes Jamie Oliver … For Good Reason
Posted in Innovative Ideas, tagged Food, Food Revolution, GOOP, Gwyneth Paltrow, Healthy Eating, Jamie Oliver, Recipes on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In today’s GOOP newsletter, Gwyneth Paltrow talks to chef Jamie Oliver about his Food Revolution. She’s obviously a fan, as am I. I wrote about Jamie Oliver’s quest to change how and what we eat in my post, Is It Time to Revive Home Economics Classes? I was serious about it then and I am [...]
Some Good News – Two Articles On What’s Working
Posted in Innovative Ideas, Novel Suggestions, tagged Food, France, Fresh Produce, Paris, School Lunches, Sustainable Agriculture, The Atlantic, Time Magazine, Walmart, Whole Foods on March 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There is an enlightening piece in this month’s Atlantic, “The Great Grocery Smackdown,” digging into Walmart’s Heritage Agriculture program. Enlightening because, just like the author of the article, Corby Kummer, I would never in a million years thought of Walmart in the same sentence with the words “very reasonable-looking produce, most of it loose and [...]
Slow Money – Where Slow Food Meets Venture Capital
Posted in Innovative Ideas, tagged Business Week, CBC News, Community-Supported Agriculture, Food, Health, NPR.org, Nurture Capital, Slow Food, Slow Money, Slow Money Alliance, The Wall Street Journal, Venture Capital on March 6, 2010 | 4 Comments »
In response to The Epicurean post “More on Microfinance in the United States,” Scott of slowmoneyaustin.com and rockroom.com mentioned “Slow Money … where Slow Food meets Venture Capital,” and I was intrigued. I’d heard of the Slow Food Movement, but what did that have to do with venture capital? And when Scott suggested that, “Microfinance [...]
Crop Mob – Sustainable Help for Sustainable Farmers
Posted in Innovative Ideas, tagged Crop Mob, Food, Small Farms, Sustainable Agriculture, The New York Times on February 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
There’s an encouraging, inspirational piece in last Wednesday’s New York Times, “Field Report: Plow Shares,” about an innovative group of landless, wannabe farmers who lend their hands and, often expertise, to help small, local farmers with land. Meet Crop Mob. The group is based in the Triangle Region of North Carolina where “the sustainable-agriculture program [...]
Meatless Monday – What a Difference a Day Makes
Posted in Innovative Ideas, tagged Environmental Impact, Factory Farming, Food, GOOP, Health Benefits, Meat Free Monday, Meatless Monday, Vegetarian Recipes on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Meatless Monday. The concept is simple – one day a week, don’t eat meat. The impact is profound. This is a movement that is organized and gaining momentum. “Meatless Monday is a non-profit initiative of The Monday Campaigns, in association with the Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health. Our goal is to reduce meat [...]
Is It Time to Revive Home Economics Classes?
Posted in Innovative Ideas, tagged Cooking, Diet, Food, Healthcare Costs, Home Economics, Jamie Oliver, Obesity, TED, TEDPrize on February 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In a post on The Epicurean, titled “Two Web Sites Sharing Big, Bold, Innovative Ideas,” I discussed TED: Ideas Worth Spreading. The TED2010 Conference has just wrapped up in California where it was announced that chef Jamie Oliver is this year’s TEDPrize Winner. As the winner, he receives $100,000 and gets to make “One Wish [...]
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