{"id":9123,"date":"2016-10-21T17:49:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T17:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idsunmedia.com\/?p=9123"},"modified":"2016-10-21T17:49:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T17:49:27","slug":"the-case-for-school-kitchens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/21\/the-case-for-school-kitchens\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case For  School Kitchens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">BY Chef Ann Cooper<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8297\" src=\"https:\/\/idsunmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/localfoodalliance-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"localfoodalliance\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" \/>One of my favorite farmers, Joel Salatin, often says if we want to save agriculture and the health of our country, then we need to \u201cfind our kitchens\u201d again. I\u2019d like to take that thought one step further and say that if we want to save our children\u2019s health, we need to find school kitchens again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">I believe that the way toward healthier school food is cooking, and to do that we must find, build or rebuild school food infrastructure \u2013 the kitchens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">During the past 17 years of working in schools, I have accomplished this goal in different ways. I\u2019ve managed schools cooking on their own and districts with regional kitchens that cook for many schools. And now I\u2019m in the process of designing and building one central kitchen for Boulder Valley School District, which will serve over 13,000 meals per day for 52 locations. In my mind, cooking in a centralized environment is the most efficient and cost-effective model yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">I\u2019m often told that it\u2019s counterintuitive to think that better food can be had in a centralized production model. Many people have this idyllic vision of lunch ladies in their child\u2019s school that cook just for their child. As bucolic and appealing as that vision might be, the reality of hundreds, if not thousands or tens of thousands of meals served every day, follows a much different paradigm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">There is no \u201cone way\u201d to feed students in schools, but I believe that there are realistic steps that school districts can take to make the best possible food in the most cost-effective and efficient manner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Come hear Chef Ann talk school food on Wednesday, Oct. 26, at Community School in Sun Valley. Hosted by Wood River Community YMCA and Roy A. Hunt Foundation, this FREE event starts at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><i>Local Food Alliance is a nonprofit whose mission is to create a vibrant local food system in the Wood River Valley. For more information, visit www.localfoodalliance.org.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY Chef Ann Cooper One of my favorite farmers, Joel Salatin, often says if we want to save agriculture and the health of our country, then we need to \u201cfind our kitchens\u201d again. I\u2019d like to take that thought one step further and say that if we want to save our children\u2019s health, we need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-food-for-thought","7":"category-sponsored"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}