Tell the LAUSD You Want Better Food For Los Angeles Students
Dr. John Deasy is about to take the helm of the Los Angeles Unified School District, and Slow Food Los Angeles is joining with Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, USC’s Childhood Obesity Research Center, Food for Lunch, the Garden School Foundation, Kidding Around the Kitchen, and RootDownLA to encourage the public to let Dr. Deasy and [...]
Helping Students Speak Out… About School Lunch
Taking the opportunity presented by the broadcast of Season 2 of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution and the arrival of a new superintendent, John Deasy, Slow Food Los Angeles has joined with several Los Angeles organizations to support improvements to the LAUSD’s school breakfast and lunch programs and to the District’s overall approach to food: in [...]
Los Angeles Times op-ed: “Our Schools’ Sweet Tooth”
Today’s Los Angeles Times features an op-ed by Emily Ventura on the need to pay closer attention to the sugar content in school food: Soft drinks were banned in Los Angeles schools in 2004. But if you think that means kids are protected from too much sugar at school, think again. Children are regularly able [...]
Valentine’s Day at the LAUSD
Emily Ventura shares an update on Slow Food Los Angeles’s social action efforts on the school lunch issue: Last Monday’s rally to support a reduction in sugar in the LAUSD food was a success! Thanks to the Slow Food LA members who participated. Mary MacVean of the Los Angeles Times covered the event, and her [...]
LAUSD Sugar Fact Sheets
Two fact sheets detailing the high sugar content of LAUSD meals–and what you can do to call for change–have been prepared by Emily Ventura in collaboration with colleagues at the Childhood Obesity Center at USC’s Keck School of Medicine. (An English-language fact sheet is on the left; a Spanish-language sheet is on the right.)
Cooking Opportunities with Jennie Cook at the 24th Street School Garden
Jennie Cook, who coordinated one of our stellar Eat-Ins as part of the Time For Lunch campaign last September, remains active in the fight to bring real, whole foods into schools. In addition to advocating for change within the LAUSD, she’s joined forces with the Garden School Foundation to expand the benefits provided to students [...]
The Real Cost of Subsidies
The graphic above was originally published in 2007 during the Farm Bill debate, but Raj Patel is reminding us again of the hidden costs associated with food that is fast, cheap, and easy. In his new book, The Value of Nothing, Patel examines the hollowness of prices and the danger of equating price with value. [...]
What it means to live in a food desert
Katharine Alexander, who worked with Slow Food Los Angeles and is now affiliated with Slow Food Urban San Diego, accompanied Monnai, a Los Angeles teen, on a tour through her neighborhood to understand her food choices–or rather, the lack of choices. Kat documented their time together, and her video–and Monnai’s words–offer an unvarnished look at [...]
LA Sprouts at the Milagro Allegro Community Garden
This week saw the launch of LA Sprouts, a new program at the Milagro Allegro Community Garden in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. A partnership between the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California Childhood Obesity Research Center (USC-CORC) and the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Loreto Elementary School in [...]
Time For Lunch Eat-ins: Hollywood
Thanks to Elisa Hunziker for capturing scenes at the Hollywood eat-in, displayed in the slide show below: Terry and Wally August, proprietors of Fancifull Gift Baskets and Fine Foods, have been enthusiastic supporters of Slow Food Los Angeles and The Farmer’s Kitchen. When Slow Food USA put out the call for eat-in organizers, Terry and [...]
Time for Lunch Eat-ins: Elysian Park
Labor Day was a beautiful day in Elysian Park, and it was captured by Gregory Han and Jennie Cook, whose photos are included in the slideshow below with their kind permission. Thanks to Emily Ho for making these and other photos available via her Flickr collection. (Rolling your cursor over the photo will display navigation [...]
What’s going on with the Time For Lunch Campaign?
Since meeting so many members, friends, and neighbors at our Labor Day Eat-Ins we’ve been quiet on the subject of Slow Food USA’s Time For Lunch campaign and the Child Nutrition Act. What’s going on? Plenty, as it turns out. With so many pressing issues before it, members of Congress decided in early October to [...]
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