Category Archives: Sustainable Food

Edible lessons

By Jane | Published: January 31, 2011
At the Edible Institute in Santa Barbara, there was a clear recognition that food reformers must draw new people into the conversation about developing a healthier food system.
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Secrets of a local food system

By Jane | Published: January 17, 2011
ACEnet's Leslie Schaller talks about how she has helped build a local food system in Athens, Ohio.
Posted in Sustainable Food | 2 Comments

Why not West Virginia??

By Jane | Published: November 11, 2010
The menu: Local prosciutto, roast pork loin, blue hubbard squash topped with candied pumpkin seeds, braised rape, rice cooked with pecans and cider and cornbread. Who said we'd go hungry in West Virginia?
Also posted in About Me, Chefs, Uncategorized | 7 Comments

A plan to fix school lunch?

By Jane | Published: February 2, 2010
“No nation is any healthier than its children or more prosperous than its farmers,” President Harry Truman pronounced as he signed legislation establishing the National School Lunch Program. If that was the goal, the program has been a failure. Small farmers are struggling and one-third of American children are overweight and obese. How did this [...]
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    Jane BlackI am a Brooklyn-based food writer who covers food politics, trends and sustainability issues. My work appears in the Washington Post, (where I was a staff writer), the New York Times, Slate, New York magazine and other publications. On this site, you will find my blog and links to my written work and my Washington Post column, Smarter Food.
      

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