Latest Inside school food Podcast Episodes
Episode 72: In Michigan, "10 Cents a Meal" For Farm To School
Inside School Food - October 17, 2016 16:01 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsWhat can you get for a dime? Add it to the federal reimbursement for a school meal, and it buys a lot. Use it to support spending on farm to school, and it generates many more times its value in local economic development. That's the thinking behind Michigan's "10 Cents a Meal" pilot, which dire...
Episode 71: Smart Snacks and Sneaky Snacks
Inside School Food - September 26, 2016 15:09 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsWhat's so smart about those USDA-regulated "Smart Snacks" sold in school vending machines? More whole grain, and lowered sugar, fat, and calories—even if they're Cheetos, Doritos, or Pop Tarts. These reformulated items are less unhealthy, sure, but new research from the Rudd Center for Food Poli...
Episode 70: Remembering Philando Castile
Inside School Food - September 19, 2016 15:26 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsOn July 6, 2016, the school nutrition community suffered the tragic loss of one of its own when Philando Castile was shot by police during a routine traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. Philando—a.k.a. "Mr. Phil" and "Mr. Rogers with dreadlocks"—was the beloved 32-year-old cafeteria superv...
Episode 69: Why #StopTheBlock?
Inside School Food - June 27, 2016 14:04 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsIn a move they say will “spur innovation,” Republicans on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce have voted to issue block grants for school nutrition programs in three pilot states, cutting them loose from federal federal mandates and supervision. #StopTheBlock’s opponents to this m...
Episode 68: Community Eligibility Explained
Inside School Food - May 23, 2016 16:43 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsCommunity Eligibility (CEP) is the most popular program to be introduced to federal school meals programs in many years. To date, 18,247 high-poverty schools in nearly 3,000 districts have begun using it to slash cumbersome paperwork, eliminate stigma, and include food-insecure children whom the...
Episode 67: New research for boosting breakfast
Inside School Food - May 16, 2016 22:32 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsFrom two new studies, research you can use to pitch your breakfast program to students, parents, and school administrators. First, evidence that a morning meal is critical to maintaining healthy weight in adolescents. In fact, two breakfasts—at home and at school—are not just better than none, ...
Episode 66: Trending: Food Courts
Inside School Food - May 02, 2016 15:31 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsFood courts at school are an increasingly popular way to win the participation of trend-savvy teenagers. If you’re flirting with the idea for any of your sites, give a close listen to today’s guests. They’re equally prepared to either talk you into or out of the immense investment involved in em...
Episode 65: From California, New Recipes for Success
Inside School Food - April 25, 2016 17:13 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsWe've all heard that too many cooks can spoil the broth, but that's hardly the case on today's episode. The new FRESHMeals collection of recipes for schools is the work of several dozen cooks from 18 "California Ambassador" districts, pledged to mentor and share best practices state-wide. It too...
Episode 64: CNR Update: House Committee Pushes Back
Inside School Food - April 19, 2016 03:22 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsTen days ago, POLITICO's Helena Bottemiller Evich reported the latest development in the long and difficult path to CNR 2015 (now CNR 2016, as it is more than six months overdue). "The House Education and the Workforce Committee has finally come up with a child nutrition reauthorization bill," s...
Episode 63: Intact Grains 101
Inside School Food - February 22, 2016 17:20 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsWhen did school children start gobbling up quinoa with such pleasure? And how is it that they’re also reaching for salads made with unprocessed (hence “intact”) and highly nourishing unpolished rice, wheat berries, barley, buckwheat, and farro? Join Coleen Donnelly of InHarvest and five food ser...
Episode 62: Salad Bar Strategies: Learning From the Best in Riverside, CA
Inside School Food - February 08, 2016 17:43 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsToday we re-visit a June 2014 episode with the salad bar gurus at Riverside Unified School District, in southern California. With new technical support for salad bars in schools on the way in CNR 2016, now is the time to take a close second look at a pioneering and celebrated program that still ...
Episode 61: In Maryland, “boot camp” for food service workers
Inside School Food - January 25, 2016 18:16 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsAs we await resolution on CNR 2016, one thing is certain: there will be new technical assistance grants for districts seeking to introduce more freshly prepared food in their cafeterias. Today, we update a Summer 2014 episode about an exemplary “train the trainer” program run by the Maryland Dep...
Episode 60: Trendspotting 2016 with Dayle Hayes
Inside School Food - January 18, 2016 16:44 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsFor the first time in the history of the USDA school meals programs, success in feeding kids (adolescents especially) is regarded as hip. K-12 nutrition providers, from the people who grow the food to those who serve it, are riding the national tide of food service trends that emphasize vivid, a...
Episode 59: Lunch Lessons from Japan
Inside School Food - December 14, 2015 18:33 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsKyushoku, or elementary school lunch, is a cherished tradition that embodies values central to Japanese culture: gratitude, cooperation, courtesy, cleanliness, reverence for nature, and pride of place. Much more than a meal, it’s a critical learning period at the heart of the school day. You’ll ...
Episode 58: Dora Rivas Remembers
Inside School Food - December 07, 2015 17:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsAs the year draws to a close, Dora Rivas joins us to look back and reflect—not just on 2015, but a half century of service as a dietitian and school food service director. Last August, when she left her post as Executive Director of food service for Dallas ISD, Dora was an iconic figure in K-12 ...
Episode 57: Reformulation Revealed
Inside School Food - November 23, 2015 21:06 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsFor processors of foods for the K-12 market, new USDA nutrition requirements arrived at the same time as increased public scrutiny of unfamiliar, often unpronounceable additives. Moving towards “clean label” while simultaneously lowering sodium and introducing whole grains is no problem when mon...
Episode 56: Better School Food: Borrowed, Hacked, and Shared
Inside School Food - November 09, 2015 16:45 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsToday we venture into new territory with the help of Chef Lisa Feldman, who is Director of Culinary Services for Sodexo USA. As a major provider of school meals (413 districts, two million meals daily), it’s significant and influential in ways you may never have imagined. The company’s ambitious...
Episode 55: In West New York, NJ, The Kids Eat It All
Inside School Food - November 02, 2015 17:25 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsNew Jersey is called the “Garden State” out of pride in an agricultural heritage that dates back hundreds of years. But in West New York, NJ, in the heart of the most densely populated area in the nation, the farms to the south were long unknown to low-income children growing up across the river...
Episode 54: WI Students Meet the Harvest Challenge
Inside School Food - October 26, 2015 15:49 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsHigh school cooking competitions can be hugely effective in generating excitement around school food, especially during Farm to School season, when students can work with locally grown ingredients. In rural Vernon County, Wisconsin, there are just six high schools, each with an enrollment of les...
Episode 53: A Taste of Hope
Inside School Food - October 19, 2015 15:56 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsFor tribal communities across the Great Plains and Southwest, buffalo is the centerpiece of of traditional culture, a sacred food critical to the restoration of health and independence. As new herds grow on Native lands, a small group of schools have joined a pilot program that introduces buffal...
Episode 52: Fresh Food and Fresh Ideas from the Iowa Food Hub
Inside School Food - October 05, 2015 17:10 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe USDA definition of a “food hub” is loose enough to include many iterations of the concept. Whatever the business model, most hubs aspire to increase access to local whole foods across the socioeconomic spectrum. And there’s no better way to accomplish that than through Farm to School. Today ...
Episode 51: USDA on CNR 2015: a conversation with Katie Wilson
Inside School Food - September 28, 2015 17:22 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsToday we welcome the new USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, for another deep dive into conversation about the future of school nutrition programs. While the delay of Child Nutrition Reauthorization can hardly be described as a good thing, it does give us more ...
Episode 50: What’s new this year? We hear from YOU!
Inside School Food - September 21, 2015 15:16 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsInside School Food asked listeners to call in about their favorite back-to-school innovations, and they did, from all over the country. Today, with the help of co-host Dayle Hayes, we bring you six of these messages about fresh ideas that are making a difference. Our selection is highly diverse....
Episode 49: Towards a “Robust HHFKA”: New SNA Leaders Speak Out
Inside School Food - September 14, 2015 15:35 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsTo kick off the school year, we are joined by the School Nutrition Association’s newly elected President, Jean Ronnei, and Vice President Lynn Harvey. They take on these roles—and this conversation—at an exceptionally challenging and sensitive time for SNA and the school nutrition community as a...
Episode 48: First Taste Matters Most
Inside School Food - August 10, 2015 17:37 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsMany American children have developed a strong, stubborn preference for sweet and salty processed food before their second birthdays. If they haven’t, it could well be because they became accustomed to healthier flavors much earlier, beginning in breast milk or even in utero. What babies tas...
Episode 47: Sustainable New England Seafood for New England Kids
Inside School Food - August 03, 2015 15:51 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsFor decades, fish at school mostly meant one thing: breaded fingers and patties–tasty enough with ketchup, but completely detached from their natural origins. That’s beginning to change in regions with access to local fisheries and processors. There’s keen interest in New England districts w...
Episode 46: Courting customers: Fresh ideas from Chandler, AZ
Inside School Food - July 27, 2015 15:45 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsThese days, we hear a lot about districts in well-to-do communities dropping out of federal meals programs. While the numbers are in fact miniscule, the conversation about them is significant. Dwindling revenue from paying students is a grave issue for many. On today’s episode, join Wesley Delbr...
Episode 45: Sortin’ it out: Composting comes to NYC schools
Inside School Food - July 13, 2015 17:05 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsHere’s one of the surest signs we have that swift and substantial progress in school food is possible: Beginning this fall, the nation’s largest district will not only be serving on compostable plates, but actually composting them. The introduction of the new tableware is occurring simultaneousl...
Episode 44: High hopes for Farm to School Act 2015
Inside School Food - June 29, 2015 15:55 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsWith so many elements of Child Nutrition Reauthorization 2015 hotly contested, it’s good to know we can be bullish about Farm to School. After a successful first round of USDA grants under CNR 2010, advocates are hoping to leverage strong bipartisan support to triple funding to $15M. But as the ...
Episode 43: CNR 2015 walk through
Inside School Food - June 22, 2015 15:30 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 7 ratingsIs Child Nutrition Reauthorization 2015 moving too fast for you? Join the club. We all feel that way, and it’s still only June. Today’s episode will help. Jacqlyn Schneider, Policy Director for the Senate Agriculture Committee under Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, is here to walk us through the ...
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