Playing Chicken with Maryn McKenna
Release Date:
09/14/2017
The author and journalist’s new book explains how antibiotics overuse helped chicken ascend from a local delicacy to an everyday protein, with serious health consequences as a result.
Food Systems
Opinion: Want to Fix America’s Health Care? First, Focus on Food
Release Date:
09/13/2017
Food is the number one cause of poor health in America.
Adding Pantries and Spice to New York’s Hungry Neighborhoods
Release Date:
09/12/2017
Over the past year, New York City’s three biggest providers of emergency food have reorganized in an effort to feed underserved communities and get ethnic ingredients to specific neighborhoods.
A Brooklyn Food Festival Dishes Out Extra Helpings of Culinary Theory
Release Date:
09/11/2017
During the course of the year, New Yorkers have no shortage of food events to attend. But Taste Talks, a culinary showcase that wrapped up its fifth annual edition this past weekend, aims to be something different, organizers say.
New York City Offers Free Lunch for All Public School Students
Release Date:
09/07/2017
Lunch at New York City public schools will be available free of charge to all 1.1 million students beginning this school year, Carmen Fariña, the schools chancellor, said on Wednesday in the basement cafeteria of a Hell’s Kitchen elementary school...
College Activists March on the Cafeteria: What Do We Want? Hydroponic Cilantro!
Release Date:
09/07/2017
Students across the U.S. are making some very precise demands of school chefs and dining halls, including a churrascaria, a gelateria and a sushi bar.
BBH NY Launches EmojiMeals For No Kid Hungry
Release Date:
09/06/2017
No Kid Hungry, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending childhood hunger, and BBH NY have launched a social media campaign that uses emojis to combat the issue of hunger nationally. The initiative raises awareness that one out of every six kids...
USDA Invests $12.6 Million to Train More Than 100 Future Agricultural Science Professionals
Release Date:
09/06/2017
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced $12.6 million to support the training of 55 doctoral candidates and 52 postdoctoral scholars. Funding is made through NIFA’s Agriculture...
Will the Trump Era Transform the School Lunch?
Release Date:
09/06/2017
On a sweltering morning in July, Sonny Perdue, the newly minted secretary of agriculture, strode across the stage of a convention hall here packed with 7,000 members of the School Nutrition Association, who had gathered for their annual conference.
Trump's Nominee To Be USDA's Chief Scientist Is Not A Scientist
Release Date:
09/05/2017
The chief scientist of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is typically a low-profile job in any presidential administration. But President Trump's nomination of his former Iowa campaign manager for the post is raising concern in the scientific...
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