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02
Jul

Peixada, a Perfect Summer Dish

This Sunday, fireworks will light up the sky and grills across the country will sizzle and smoke. Every family has its traditional Fourth of July feast, from burgers and barbecued chicken to …

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14
Jun

A Father’s Day Feast

In honor of Father’s Day on June 20, Lynne Christy Anderson shares a recipe for Salvadoran quesadilla, from her book Breaking Bread: Recipes and Stories from Immigrant Kitchens, and shares memories of …

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07
Jun

Remaking School Food

On Friday, First Lady Michelle Obama hosted 500 chefs from all over the country on the White House lawn for the Chefs Move to Schools program, part of her larger campaign to …

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07
May

Mom’s Cooking, A Taste of Home

Whether it’s your mother’s pot roast, your father’s green bean casserole or your grandmother’s tamales, food, family and memory are utterly enmeshed. “We all have one particular food so wedded to our …

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03
May

James Beard Award Winners

Two UC Press books are winners at the 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards, which honor the best of everything in food and wine. Encyclopedia of Pasta, by Oretta Zanini de Vita and …

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05
Apr

Speak Out on School Nutrition

Janet Poppendieck, author of Free for All, wrote a guest post last week on the Fed Up with Lunch blog, where blogger “Mrs. Q” chronicles her quest to eat a school lunch …

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15
Mar

Planting the Seeds of Healthy Eating

Tavis Smiley recently interviewed both Judith A. Carney, coauthor of In the Shadow of Slavery, and Janet Poppendieck, author of Free for All, on his Public Radio International show. Asked about the …

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