We are excited to see our "Cooking Outside the Box" report featured in the press!
Coverage:
- Want all NYC School Meals Cooked from Scratch? It’s Possible, a Report Finds - Chalkbeat
- NYC Public Schools Can Serve Real Food, But Will They? - Heated, a publication from Medium x Mark Bittman
- We Can Serve Kids School Meals Made from Scratch - New York Daily News
- NYC Brings Homemade Lunches to Schools - silive.com
- A New Report on Scratch Cooking in NYC Schools - The Lunch Tray
- Viewpoint: New Research Shows That Scratch Cooking in NYC's Public Schools is Possible - CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute
- NYC Schools Serve Lunches Made from Scratch - Treehugger
Select quotes:
"Preparing fresh, marinated chicken from scratch may not seem like a big deal at home. Now add in hundreds of schoolchildren, federal nutrition guidelines, and a kitchen that needs updating, and it becomes a gargantuan task. Still with the right investments in equipment, supplies, and training, it’s doable, even for a school system that feeds about 940,000 free meals a day." - Reema Amin, for Chalkbeat (Want all NYC school meals cooked from scratch? It’s possible, a report finds)
"Perhaps the most encouraging finding in the report came from the pilot schools’ longtime kitchen staff. “We saw an incredible amount of pride in what they had accomplished and in the food they were serving the kids,” said Trent. “Given the increase in work and training up to skill, they could have put in requests to change schools, but they all stayed and returned.”- Andrea Strong, for Heated, a publication from Medium x Mark Bittman (NYC Public Schools Can Serve Real Food, But Will They?)