There's Power in a Potluck
Sunday night, using leftover bread from Friday night's dinner, some Hudson Valley milk and cream, and two big Jersey zucchini, I baked up a savory zucchini bread pudding. It was cheap to make, and super tasty. I carried it with me over to a community garden in the East Village of New York City, and proceeded to share it--and a mess of other delicious home cooked food--with 'about 50 friends, neighbors, colleagues and strangers.
It¹s not like I have never picknicked on Labor Day before, but this one was different. I was there for Slow Food USA's Time for Lunch campaign and its National Day of Action to get real food into schools. Our potluck was an "eat-in," and it was one of over 300 that took place yesterday from Maui to Maine, from Mississippi to Michigan.
About 10,000 of us all care enough about what our country's children are served in schools that we came together to make a public statement that it's time--overdue really--to give schools the resources they need to serve real food to our kids. These pictures give you a sense of the diversity of events that happened--there were fiddles and turkeys, hula hooping and cake walks. But what made it different is that there were also banners, and posters, letter writing and rallying cries. Let's tell our legislators that "Hey now! It's Time for lunch!"
Here are some photos from events around the country.
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Kurt Friese: Getting Serious About School Lunch: Eat-Ins Sweep The Nation This Labor Day
Think of an Eat-In as the marriage of the traditional picnic to the classic activism of the 1960's Sit-Ins; this is old-fashioned activism with a hot dish to share.
Kerry Trueman: Slow Food Steers Aspiring Mechanic from Cars to Cooking
Cars and fast food are partners in crime when it comes to undermining America's health. But our landscape is changing; Automotive High School in Brooklyn is now part of Slow Food NYC's Harvest Time program.
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And what about healthy snacks in schools? http://www.healthymunchy.com?
TWKT doesn't grasp that the parent's tax money goes, in part, to pay for the food for their children at school. The real wakeup call should be to the cheap bastards in those schools who hire corporations to provide the food. Since those corporations want to make a profit, they have a NEGATIVE incentive to provide actual good food for the kids. This is all about profit over kids. That's evil.
So show up at the school and make the lunches!! one time thing is nothing show some real commitment!!!
I will never forget a moment in that documentary by the guy who are McDonald's for a month. He was talking to a lunch lady (I believe in West Virginia), she showed him her tools in the kitchen. It consisted of a utility knife to open the frozen boxes of crap to throw into the oven. Seriously.
We wonder why our kids are so fat? Have you seen what they eat at lunch???
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