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Urban Foragers
First Aired - 06/04/2009 03:00PM

Zak and Jori take on the topic of child nutrition with guests Ed Yowell of Slow Food USA and Kristen Mancinelli, coordinator of the NYC Alliance for Child Nutrition Reauthorization. For more info visit: sites.google.com/site/nycallianceforcnr/

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What is the Child Nutrition Act? (7:03)

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established in 1960's, reauthorized every five years, improvements made for programs that feed children then bill is reauthorized, Senate Agriculture Committee, Child Nutrition Act allows schools to provide food during the day to kids, families that make under $25,000 get meals for free, higher income families get reduced price meals, parents must fill out application to qualify their child for the program, USDA sends reimbursements to schools to pay for meals, Child Nutrition Act covers school lunches and breakfasts,

Goals Before Reauthorization (11:36)

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Ed: Slow Food Regional Governor, involvement in NYC Alliance for Child Nutrition, nationwide people have been combating for improved nutrition but now it's an ecumenical movement, equal access to food, next generation's political movement will be centered around food, demand is currently outstripping supply, food insecurity: lacking steady access to safe and healthy foods, child obesity in US has tripled since 1980, 32% obesity rate in children, school meals feed 30 million children daily, fast food restaurants marketing themselves and opening accross from elementary schools, will healthy diets of children while in school be rendered useless by their habits outside school?, Alliance Goals: promote health and well-being of children by providing nutritious food, combat obesity, promote local and sustainable agrarain economies, bureaucratic impediments for Alliance, meals for all children should be free just like textbooks, government allocates resources based on census data, children learn better with a decent meal under their belts, 12% of children live in food insecure homes, Alliance wants all meals to be free, not a far leap for all meals to be free,

Ensuring Meal Quality (12:21)

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how do we ensure the health and nutritional levels of these meals?, school meal nutrition standards out of date, for each lunch there must be several components: protein-grain-vegetable-fruit, infrastructure also needs improvement, skill level and education for cooks need to be improved, Department of Education making strides to improve school nutrition, not enough people of kitchen facilities to make greater improvements, funds for infrastructure required for there to be Department of Education preparation facilities, food could be distributed from there, off-site food preparation form a central hub, commissary that processes whole foods, meals should also be sourced locally and legislation to ensure this should follow, incentivize schools with money so they source locally,

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Urban Foragers
First Aired - 11/19/2009 03:30PM

On this week's episode of Urban Foragers, Zak and Jori welcome Bill Telepan to the studio to discuss the Wellness In The Schools program, an effort to expand elementary school food budget and the quality and healthfulness of school lunches.

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Bill Telepan of Telepan Restaurant (5:40)

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William Telepan, Telepan Restaurant, Wellness In The Schools, getting green products into the schools, organized sports during recess, Wellness Cafe: works with school food staff on making the meals healthier in the lunchroom, Telepan is known for his local and sustainable cuisine,

Wellness In The Schools Program (15:15)

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Fairway Market, Nancy Easton: Founder of Wellness In The Schools, www.wellnessintheschools.org, Wellness taking on more schools, Cook For New York Program, encouraging culinary students to work in schools for first two years after graduating in return for tuition money, adding salad bars to schools, current salad bars in elementary schools less than adequate, food remains an afterthought in the elementary school system, schools strive to save money on food, every school can have a salad bar, school cooks often lacking in technique and interest, New York about to pull money from public school food budget, bureaucracy of school lunches, improving child nutrition in the schools improves performance in the classroom,

What's Next For School Food (13:52)

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elementary school cooks have short hours, often most of the food they serve has been pre-prepared, revamping school culinary infrastructure, system must be changed piece by piece wholesale change impossible to come by, once students begin to experience these new and healthy school lunches they will come to expect them, City Harvest, Childrens' Nutrition Reauthorization Act, Rachel Ray's contributions to elementary school food,

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Patrick Martins interviews Christopher Carpenter
First Aired - 07/19/2009 02:00PM

Patrick Martins interviews Christopher Carpenter, chairman of the board for Slow Food USA.

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Patrick Interviews Christopher Carpenter (4:10)

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Slow Food USA, Christopher Carpenter, school lunches, children's diet, Napa Valley, Childhood Nutrition Act is up for reauthorization in Congress this October, nutritional guidelines, health care, causality rather than reaction, 1 in 3 kids are in danger of having childhood obesity, 1 in 4 children are in danger of contracting diabetes, eat in based on the 1960s model of a sit in, drawing attention to a national issue to create local action, all politics are local, local issues, local farmers, helping schools create a community where everybody wins, improving school food, saving money on health care by preventative measures in school,

Napa Valley Convivium (3:40)

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Napa Valley Convivium, school system paired with Meadow Ranch, all food served to the kids are from the ranch, traceability, sustainability, connection with communities, creating a roundtable around that model, Napa Valley Unified School District, childhood obesity coalition, improving the health care system, we often deal with issues after they have happened in this country,

The Fighting Illini & The Story of Chris Carpenter (5:47)

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Chris was a defensive lineman for the Fighting Illini, University of Illinois, Chris was a bartender, winemaker, teaching children about what farmers do on a local basis to create sustainable systems, industrialized foods, some parents don't have time to cook meals, garden, fruit, most scohols in Napa Valley have some sort of garden program, gopher snakes, idealic situation, financial issues create challanges in this system, local politicians, educating parents, McDonalds,

The State Of Slow Food (3:12)

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Slow Food, national day of action, activist oriented, how are we feeding our country?, environmental impact of the agricultural world, drawing attention to issues, similar to the Sierra Club, Josh Viertel, Patrick Martins was the first executive director for Slow Food, name recognition of Slow Food in the US, the slide whistle, remotivated staff,

The State of Napa Valley Wines (7:14)

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Cabernet, Lokoya, Cardinale, Napa is changing, wine sales are down in general, economic shakedown, Mariano Navarro, quality from plant to finished product, advice for young winemakers,

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