November 2008 Blog Posts (3)

If you haven't seen this, it's worth the 20 minutes it take to see the video. Bill Moyers interviews Michael Pollan, Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley and author of IN DEFENSE OF FOOD: AN EATER'S MANIFESTO, about what's wrong with our food system and how it needs to change. His comments on school lunch are scathing and his recommendations daring, including moving the NSLP out of Ag and into the Heath and Human Source… Continue

Hope you join FFFF and post your profile - that may lead to more exposure and business for you, and more exposure to good ideas about nutrition and raising money to institutionalize healthy food in schools. News about fundraising efforts. Nina Stout (mother of Dawson) has tentatively scheduled Sat. Feb 28 for a dinner at the Danbury Unitarian Universalist church. I spoke to Suzanne Sheridan and she said she is interested in talking about possibly singing and playing. She would sell CDs there. W… Continue

Chef Daniel Lanzilotta made a scrumptious lunch - delicious and nutritious -and shared his belief that the food we eat has a direct effect on our well-being. Amy Kalafa, the film maker of Two Angry Moms (www.angrymoms.org), spoke about her vision of a better food culture in America. She believes we need to start with children, work with the schools to provide a more wholesome food environment, and fan out to families and whole communities, and eventually go national. She founded Fair Foods Fair… Continue