Serve veggies first, and kids will eat them
Health officials and parents everywhere continue to puzzle over how to get kids to eat their fruits and vegetables. But I discovered the answer a few weeks ago. And it...
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Chefs pick their favorite food books
The culinary literati gathered to celebrate the year's best cookbooks at the recent 2010 James Beard Book Awards ceremony in New York City. But we asked some of the chefs...
Changes in store for school vending machines
Crispy edamame, fresh bananas, fruity organic waters and pomegranate spiked nut clusters could replace sweets and sports drinks in school vending machines thanks to a crop of healthier products and...
Changes in store for school vending machines
Crispy edamame, fresh bananas, fruity organic waters and pomegranate spiked nut clusters could replace sweets and sports drinks in school vending machines thanks to a crop of healthier products and...
Chef activist pushes fresh produce
Michel Nischan is a high-end chef, best-selling cookbook author and tireless promoter of fresh local produce. But he's also well aware that his favorite foods remain too pricey for many...
Locavorism expands its boundaries
Farm names have become delicious descriptors on high-end restaurant menus across the country, and farmers markets have doubled in the last 15 years. The local food movement has clearly hit...
Chef activist pushes fresh produce
Michel Nischan is a high-end chef, best-selling cookbook author and tireless promoter of fresh local produce. But he's also well aware that his favorite foods remain too pricey for many...
Farmers markets run by city of Chicago will start accepting food stamp cards
If you want to buy a meal of doughnuts, chips and soda with food stamp benefits, you'll have no problem in Chicago. But if you want to use them for...
Students, show us your lunch
Many people who are over 18 (and not a teacher) haven't seen a real school lunch in years. Now members of Congress — most of them long past their school...
School nutrition and gardening classes aim to grow healthy eating habits
Chicago Public Schools officials have announced new, healthier school lunch menus, but a big question remains. Will kids eat them? As British chef Jamie Oliver (whose ABC TV show, "Food...