By Alistair McIntyre, Head of Catering Services at Scottish Borders Council. When I was a young (and not so young) boy I loved school dinners…but I can understand why some of my friends didn’t! The mashed potatoes were texturally challenging and often greyer than a rainy Aberdeen afternoon! The beef required some amount of chewing to get it...
As part of its multi-intervention approach to sustainable school meals programming, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA/FAS) through its flagship McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition (McGovern-Dole) program provides support for the establishment of school gardens. These McGovern-Dole supported school gardens address a variety of needs. The gardens serve...
By Rebecca Middleton, Executive Director, Alliance to End Hunger Hunger can deeply impact individuals, families, and communities. This is true across the globe, from Mogadishu to right here in Washington, D.C. While the root causes and true depth of hunger may differ widely from place to place, food insecurity prevents societies everywhere from reaching their...
What’s your strongest food memory? For some, it might be a fond recollection of cooking with a close family relative; enjoying the taste, smell and texture of home-made food made with loved ones. For others, it might be a trip to a restaurant, or a picnic on the beach. Maybe your favourite food memory is...
By Dr. Yibo Wood, Global Nutrition Coordinator, Food and Nutrition Service, USDA Click here to read the blog
By Linda Cregan, CEO at the Children’s Food Trust Click here to read the blog
By the FAO nutrition team: Boitshepo Glyose, Andrea PoloGalante, Diana Carter, Ana Islas Ramos and Marie Caroline Dode. In line with the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), the Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs), the Zero Hunger Challenge and the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025), FAO recognizes school children as...
By Norma Toussaint, Counterpart International Read the story
Pauli Haakenson teaches Mandarin at Singapore American School and made these fantastic videos about foods in Asia. Click the links below to watch the films What do you like to eat? Yummy Fruit From Singapore to Alabama
Children Count on Soy – five countries featured on International School Meals Day WISHH’s USDA Cochran School Feeding Fellowship alumnae and 2016 participants from Nicaragua and South Africa show their soy-protein foods that they made as part of teams with the culinary students at T.C. Williams High School in Virginia. The school’s chef invited WISHH...