Inside School Food
A showcase for fresh insights that are making a difference, and progressive solutions that really work. Peer leaders from across the nation share their stories about fighting hunger, coping with regulation, and meeting sustainability goals. About winning kids over and changing lives with creative menus packed with fresh whole food. Need help keeping up with emerging school nutrition policy, legislation, and research? We’ve got that covered, too. From the Heritage Radio Network.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 72
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2016
Episode 32: Florida (school) Food Truck Sizzle
Food trucks are rolling statements about some the values Americans hold dearest: independence, entrepreneurship, and mobility. Authenticity. Creativity. Affordability. With the movement growing so fa…
00:36:28 |
Mon 02 Mar 2015
Episode 31: Participation: What’s really going on?
Whether your sales up or down, there has to be a reason. So what’s behind the participation slump among students who don’t qualify for free or reduced-priced meals? Some school nutrition professional…
00:37:22 |
Mon 16 Feb 2015
Episode 30: Making FoodCorps Work
It’s been more than five years since the inception of FoodCorps, the AmeriCorps division that sends young service members into school gardens, classrooms, cafeterias, and kitchens, where they’re task…
00:42:38 |
Mon 09 Feb 2015
Episode 29: Kitchen Workhorses
What’s behind the “True Food” revolution in Minneapolis Public Schools? Ambitious purchasing of industrial-strength gadgets—cook-chill tanks, vacuum baggers, a meat shredder, a “gentle mixer,” and …
00:41:42 |
Mon 26 Jan 2015
Episode 28: Serving Food Justice at School: A Conversation with Audrey Rowe
This week on Inside School Food, for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, join Audrey Rowe, Administrator of the Food and Nutrition Service at USDA, in reflection on socioeconomic justice in school nutrition…
00:37:46 |
Mon 19 Jan 2015
Episode 27: “Bay to Tray” in Monterey
There is perhaps no city in the nation more strongly associated with fish than Monterey, CA, home to the world-famous Monterey Bay Aquarium and the setting for John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row. But most …
00:38:56 |
Mon 12 Jan 2015
Episode 26: School Food Social Media That Rocks
We kick off the new year with Dayle Hayes, the activist blogger behind “School Meals That Rock,” a multi-platform social media campaign that draws attention to news of healthy, delicious, sustainable…
00:38:07 |
Mon 05 Jan 2015
Episode 25: Mastering the Art of School Cooking
It took a village to produce New School Cuisine: Nutritional and Seasonal Recipes for School Cooks by School Cooks. This pioneering new book features 78 rigorously tested, fully reimbursable dishes t…
00:37:52 |
Mon 15 Dec 2014
Episode 24: Top Chefs
Big districts have long employed chefs, and smaller ones are increasingly relying on them as consultants. But what happens when a mid-size district hires a classically trained restaurant industry vet…
00:50:31 |
Mon 24 Nov 2014
Episode 23: New Menus = New Price Tags?
What’s really behind the controversy over Healthy Hunger Free Kids 2010? According to today’s guests, it’s dollars that don’t make sense. Join Gitta Grether-Sweeney of Portland (OR) Public Schools Nu…
00:40:44 |
Mon 17 Nov 2014
Episode 22: The Urban School Food Alliance travels to France. Vive la révolution?
Food service leaders from six of the nation’s very largest districts–New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, and Orlando–have joined together over shared reform goals: lower prices, more susta…
00:47:50 |
Mon 03 Nov 2014
Episode 21: Sustainable California Chicken for California Kids
Three very big districts—Riverside, San Diego, and Oakland—are taking farm to school to the next level with an enormous, year-round commitment to sustainably grown California chicken. Their ambit…
00:43:08 |
Mon 27 Oct 2014
Episode 20: This Radish is Golden
What community isn’t proud of its school trophies? Across Georgia, there’s a new kind of prize that recognizes exemplary work in farm-to-school, named after a tasty local vegetable. And winning at an…
00:39:52 |
Mon 20 Oct 2014
Episode 19: Farm To School Program Evaluation
Farm to school purchasing pursues social, environmental, economic, and public health goals. How to evaluate progress in reaching them, and how to share ideas and learning across a diverse, national c…
00:38:32 |
Mon 13 Oct 2014
Episode 18: A Visit to Traverse City, MI: “Space Broccoli” & Other Adventures in Farm to School
Family farms dominate the agricultural landscape of the Lower Michigan Peninsula, growing lots more than those celebrated sour cherries. Romanesco and kohlrabi, for instance, which the children of Tr…
00:34:15 |
Mon 06 Oct 2014
Episode 17: Charting a Farm to School Course? Don’t Leave Without this Roadmap
We’re so excited about Farm to School Month 2014 that we’re starting two days early. Join us for a walk through USDA’s totally indispensable, very user-friendly guide to launching, bidding, and buyin…
00:37:07 |
Mon 29 Sep 2014
Episode 16: Lunch Lessons from Teenage Chefs
Want fresh, USDA-compliant meals that kids will get excited about? How about putting kids in charge? Cooking Up Change does just that. Subjected to the same tight budgets, strict nutrition standards,…
00:36:42 |
Mon 22 Sep 2014
Episode 15: How Smart Are Your Lunchrooms?
A school cafeteria can be a highly charged environment. Crowds of students press into the line, eager to zip through so they can get to their friends and recess. They’re hungry. It’s very loud. And t…
00:35:34 |
Mon 15 Sep 2014
Episode 14: Let’s Talk Nutrition Standards
Inside School Food kicks off the new school year with a discussion of the nutrition standards mandated by the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010. This school year, SFAs are being asked to do even m…
00:34:35 |
Mon 08 Sep 2014
Episode 13: School Lunch Around the World
Explore school lunch around the world on the season finale of Inside School Food. Why are we so riveted by pictures of school meals in other countries? Perhaps because it’s a shared experience the wo…
00:38:03 |
Mon 11 Aug 2014
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