Archive for October, 2009

Head vs. Heart (y)

With all the talking,
sometimes,
a picture worth more than my words.
i think this greatly describes what i am feeling and thinking at the moment ;)

Farm to Cafe Day was a HUGE success!!!
-met Chef Bill from NY School Foods
-met a Farmer who taught me how to cut herbs, taught me how to tell them apart, and how [...]

Digestible Education

a follow up to my “C is for Cookie, and Carrot?” post -
Sesame Street’s response to Healthy Eating
and all the attention on the Cookie Monster!
“me likie!”
When i get overwhelmed,
I seek for inspiration,
and i look to the future generation for inspiration.
Somehow, kids really are the answer. education is the answer, and awareness is the new Food [...]

Gluttony: Entitlement vs. Responsibility

Sick and tired of being sick and tired? I’ll say!
It is clear from the million of quantitative and qualitative articles in the past 48 hours on food nutrition issues in Schools all across America, that there is an increasing national health crisis, an epidemic on the raise since the early two thousands and a decade [...]

My Perfect Foodie Kind of Day

After a very reality check kind of day on Wednesday – My triple whammy that caught me off guard and made me completely upset with the world, (yup we all have those days where you just get home, swing the door wide open in hopes to find some comfort to sweept through there like the [...]

And we wonder why our kids are fat…

This infomercial ironically, or diabolically brilliant came on while i was watching Ace of Cakes, while blogging my previous post…;)
umm,
a) this could be so hilariously RIDICULOUS — put in the hands of a LO SISTER — b/c we would have so much fun making it an art project instead of actually eating it! (isn’t [...]

Snow, Ice, Wine Sorbetto?

MMMMM,
nothing like coming out of class completely brain fried and heading straight to whole foods to buy some wine sorbet.
i gotta say,
it was
DELIGHTFUL.
my goodness,
for someone who’s learning to appreciate wine like crazyyy, (because it sure messes me up when i actually drink it — yup. i think it’s called getting krunk) the flavours dance around [...]

Throw Me Some Optimism

“write about your class discussions, your rants, your ish with the world, and i’ll find you the readership”
– here it is royboy.
In my food policies class:
What makes me sad –
“Why do people spend so much time, energy, resources, and money, keeping people sick, uneducated, poverished, and demoralized in this country?! Why does Capitalism Rule?”
“That’s like [...]

Finding my way in the Food World

Will all the FOODIES in the house please stand up, please stand up…?
Flashback almost two years ago, in a similar styled financial district apt cutely dressed in attempt to draw in some comfort and separation between the crazy world that is outside of that window – aka, Manhattan, Post Grad (what a time! what a [...]

The Soup Kitchen

it was very interesting to be working in a soup kitchen in harlem yesterday,
given it was only my third time ever walking through harlem. scary, run down, ghetto. lack of funds, lack of value, and spirit. low morale, and just plain SAD.
down and out.
i almost grabbed one of those trays i was serving and wanted [...]