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Monday, November 14, 2011

New Haven School Food's Cheryl Barbara to be on Food Network's CHOPPED!

New Haven School Food's Cheryl Barbara to be on Food Network's CHOPPED!

In Honor of Share Our Strength; Four school cafeteria chefs compete to raise awareness about childhood healthy eating.

Class is in session in the Chopped kitchen! Four school cafeteria chefs compete to raise awareness about the importance of good meals for kids. With White House chef Sam Kass as a guest judge, the ladies seek to make a big impression with their first dishes, made with dill pickles and canned tuna. Then in the entrée round, quinoa is a new ingredient for two out of the three chefs. Will they be able to take something unknown and create something great? The two finalists pour their hearts into making fantastic desserts that include grapes and cream cheese. And an emotional victory brings an incredible competition to its conclusion.

Tune in: November 22 at 10pm/9c

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Friday, September 30, 2011

RE: Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution School Lunch Photo Wall

In the spring of 2011 Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Team named me a school food revolution hero. http://www.jamieoliver.com/us/foundation/jamies-food-revolution/news-content/chef-tim-cipriano-brings-scratch-cooking

Today I received an email asking for me to submit photos of New Haven school lunch's to show off some of the best school meals in the country and to thank me for my support of this new campaign. BUT, they also want to post photos of the worst school lunch in the country. My response to the email I received is below for all to read:

Good Morning,

I do not like the idea of the “Worst School Lunch”. I think it is a bad idea to berate school nutrition professionals for following the rules. Just because we may not agree that the lunch is good, it most likely meets the USDA requirements for a reimbursesable meal. That translates that the school nutrition professionals are following the rules set forth by the administrators of the program, the USDA. To point out that they are doing something wrong is not the right approach. I would rather see webinars set up as training exercises to educate school nutrition professionals on how to make better choices utilizing USDA Foods and staying within budget. That in my mind is what is most important.

Taking the route of stomping on the same very people who we want to educate is not going to help in the long run. But working together as a team will.

Typically the school itself does not operate its own school meals program but rather operated on a school district level. So not naming the school itself but naming the town will have the same negative effect on school meal programs nationwide. School staff directly may not be the intended target but I know that my workers take their jobs seriously and negative PR hurts us all.

There is no validity in the process either, there could be a picture uploaded to your site stating that a particular meal was served in a New Haven School that could be false. This will now have a negative impact on my program whether or not the picture is accurate.

The idea of a best school lunch vs a worst school lunch is the wrong way to make change and I am 100% against the idea.

You do not have my support with this campaign.

Their response to my email response was:
Hi Tim,

Thank you for your email, I completely understand your point.
However, through this campaign we do not want to criticize school nutrition staff – but rather start a real conversation about school food, get people to visit their schools, try the meals and connect with other parents, lunch staff and nutrition directors.

We completely understand that school lunch is served under constraints including budget, staff, ingredients, and food availability. Yet under the same regulations about school food and sometimes within the same community, some kids are getting amazing school food whilst others are really not.

We don’t just want to find the ‘Worst’ lunch but shine the spotlight on differences there are in school meals, showcase some great meals and also have some fun in comparing school meals from all the over the world – from different cultures, climates and growing seasons.

In no way do we want to be malicious towards schools, or school & nutrition staff nor do we want to suggest they are doing anything wrong. Rather we just to open up conversation on school food all over the world and how important it is to take a part & be involved in what students are eating at school.

I understand completely where you are coming from & I hope I have explained some of our thoughts behind the photo wall in this email.

Many thanks,

I do not agree with their response nor do I agree that this is just a campaign to shine the spotlight on "different" school meals. This is a feeble attempt to portray any school nutrition professional who serves a meal that is not up to the standards of Jamie Oliver in a negative light all to give him more fame and fortune.

Perhaps Jamie means well and truly wants to make a difference but he seems to be going about it in the wrong direction. Pitting school nutrition professionals against one another is not the way to see change happen.

Together Everybody Achieves More = TEAM. Jamie needs to step up to the plate and join the team, not alienate himself from it.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Growing Healthy Kids in New Haven

Today was a great day in New Haven and America! We celebrated the roll out of 33 salad bars in New Haven and because of the commitment of Whole Foods Market and Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools there are now 1,000 salad bars in schools with the goal of 6,000 by 2013.

As I was surrounded by our school children this morning in the school garden at Barnard Environmental Studies Magnet School I was able to speak enthusiastically about just how great these salad bars in our schools will be. The students That joined me at the podium also offered their support for the salad bars. Smiling face on kids when we talk about fresh veggies is priceless.

The speakers at the media event were great, Ken Meyers from Whole Foods raved about how beautiful our school garden and thanked us for our commitment to feeding our children good foods. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro was energetic as always and praised us all for the work that we do, and our Superintendent of Schools Dr. Reginald Mayo spoke about the real potential salad bars bring to schools…healthy kids ready to learn! Most importantly for me today was the kids, our students love to show off their garden knowledge and skills to any and everyone. They were digging potatoes to show off to the Congresswoman and they were giving garden tours to anyone who asked. Their enthusiasm for fresh vegetables is second to none.

Dr. Judy Palfrey, Executive Director of Let’s Move! offered these words of encouragement through an email letter: "Due to the hard work of these leaders, 1000 schools have salad bars that did not have them this time last year. That means thousands of kids are making salads with vegetables and fruits everyday. Studies show that salad bars in schools increase vegetable and fruit consumption which is critical for improving the health of kids. I applaud the work that this coalition is doing and look forward to many more salad bars in schools in the year ahead."

Following the media event we joined the students for lunch in the cafeteria and encouraged the children to "Make a Rainbow" of vegetables on their plate. The words of encouragement were quickly drowned out by the excitement of the children to dig into the Brown Rice Salad, loaded with black beans, carrots, spinach, red and yellow peppers that joined the more traditional salad bar offerings of salad mix, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots and green peppers. Kids getting excited about fresh vegetables and cold brown rice salad...this is good stuff!

Despite the claims from other that salad bars are unhealthy and not safe for children to dine at; I disagree. Schools are educational environments, naturally a place to teach children how to eat at a salad bar safely and sanitary. Now is the time to educate our children and continue to increase access to real foods.

Our salad bar program is designed to be user friendly and simple, but simple does not mean boring or lack of nutritious items. Traditional salad bar offerings of romaine salad mix, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots and green peppers will be the staples. They will be joined on a rotating basis by roasted broccoli salad, baby spinach, black bean & tomato salad, roasted sweet potato & black bean salad, garbanzo bean salad, quinoa salad and various other heathful choices. The salad bar will also allow us to turn a plain taco day into a more exciting day by offering many fresh vegetable toppings. The only offerings we will not have on the salad bar will be fruit, pasta salads and mayonnaise based salads. While these items still may be nutritious we want to encouraged the children to increase their palate by eating vegetables in a more natural state.

Thank you to the generous support of Whole Foods, Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools, United Fresh Produce Association, National Fruit & Vegetable Alliance and the Lunch Box for your commitment to the students in New Haven Public Schools!

Thursday, September 22, 2011

New Haven Public Schools give school lunches healthy makeover!

New Haven Public Schools give school lunches healthy makeover

Whole Foods Market® and Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools donate 33 salad bars; Host “Make a Rainbow Day” to get kids excited about making healthier food choices

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Sept. 27, 2011)— New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) will now offer more fresh fruits and vegetables in the lunchroom with the addition of 33 salad bars in schools. Through shopper donations from Whole Foods Market’s Salad Bar Project, a fundraising campaign created to help schools invest in their students’ health and bring more fruits and vegetables to the cafeteria, and Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools, every elementary school in the district will receive a salad bar grant.

To celebrate the lunchroom makeovers and get students excited about digging into the new colorful, healthy options, Chef Tim Cipriano, executive director of food services for NHPS and Superintendent Dr. Reginald Mayo, will host Make a Rainbow Day with students. Guests of honor will include Whole Kids Foundation Board Member, Ken Meyer, “Renegade Lunch Lady,” Chef Ann Cooper; and representatives from Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools.

Following a brief press conference in their school garden, Barnard Environmental Studies Magnet School students will head to the lunchroom to see their new salad bar for the “Make a Rainbow” challenge. During this event, students will taste their way through a delicious lesson on the power of eating a variety of colorful fruits and vegetables, and then put their knowledge to the test in a challenge to create their own “rainbow” from the salad bar.

"New Haven continues to lead the country with school food and school reform. I see no better way to celebrate our school children than to actively promote the consumption of fresh vegetable through our salad bars,” said Cipriano. “Increasing access to healthy foods for our kids is a top priority. We are educating and feeding hungry kids in our schools."

The salad bar kits include a five-well Cambro® salad bar complete with utensils, pan inserts, chilling pads and training tools. Together, Whole Foods Market and Let’s Move Salad Bars have put over 800 salad bars in schools with the goal of 6,000 by 2013.

“The New Haven Public School district is receiving one of the largest salad bar grant donation to date and we applaud Chef Cipriano and his team for being so committed and accepting of this program. We hope it inspires other schools to take action and apply for grants,” said Meyer. “On behalf of the Whole Kids Foundation, we’ll continue to work hard to provide funds for salad bars and we challenge other businesses and organizations get involved in this effort and help fund salad bars in school lunchrooms across the country.”

Of the nearly 20,800 students enrolled in NHPS, 80 percent qualify for free or reduced lunches. Last year, the district served over 5 million meals to students. NHPS salad bars will feature a variety of locally-sourced fresh foods that Cipriano has helped source through Farm to School and other healthy eating initiatives. For a full list of New Haven Public Schools that will receive salad bars, visit: http://www.nhps.net/node/416.

When: Sept. 27, 2011

10:30 am: press conference

11:00 am: “Make a Rainbow Day” event with students

Where: Barnard Environmental Studies Magnet School, 170 Derby Ave, New Haven, CT

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About Salad Bar Project and Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools:

In 2010, shoppers donated more than $1.4 million during a seven-week fundraising campaign to improve school lunches through the Salad Bar Project, which helped fund 570 salad bars in schools across the country. Whole Foods Market joined forces with F3 (Food Family Farming Foundation) a second year to help bring fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains and healthy proteins to school lunch programs through an online grant process. To make an even larger impact in lunchrooms across the country, Whole Foods Market also became a founding partner of Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools, whose goal is to provide 6,000 school salad bars across the nation by 2013.

About Whole Foods Market®

Founded in 1980 in Austin, Texas, Whole Foods Market (wholefoodsmarket.com, NASDAQ: WFM) is the leading natural and organic food retailer. As America’s first national certified organic grocer, Whole Foods Market was named “America’s Healthiest Grocery Store” by Health magazine. The company's motto “Whole Foods, Whole People, Whole Planet”™ captures its mission to ensure customer satisfaction and health, Team Member excellence and happiness, enhanced shareholder value, community support and environmental improvement. Thanks to the company’s nearly 60,000 Team Members, Whole Foods Market has been ranked as one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For” in America by FORTUNE magazine for 14 consecutive years. In fiscal year 2010, the company had sales of more than $9 billion and currently has more than 300 stores in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Friday, August 12, 2011

Help bring the FOOD NETWORK to New Haven!

The New Haven School Food Truck has been nominated in The Great Food Truck Race America's Favorite Giveaway sponsored by Food Network.

Vote for us starting August 14.

The truck with the most votes will win $10,000 and get a chance to appear on Season 3.

Just visit www.foodnetwork.com/foodtrucks and click on America's Favorite link.

To see the truck in action and to help us spread the word here are the truck locations:

Betsy Ross Arts School

150 Kimberly Avenue

Lunch: 10:30 am - 11:15 am

Supper: 4 pm - 4:45 pm

Helene Grant Headstart School

185 Goffe Street

Lunch: 11:30 am - 12:15 pm

Supper: 5:00 pm - 5:45 pm

MicroSociety Magnet School

311 Valley Street

Lunch: 12:30 pm - 1:15 pm

Supper: 6:00 pm - 6:45 pm

Monday, July 25, 2011

NEW HAVEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS CENTRAL KITCHEN UNVEILS FOOD TRUCK TO PROVIDE FREE SUMMER MEALS FOR KIDS

Thanks to United Way, New Haven School Food is going mobile with a new food truck that will serve kids throughout the city free healthy and nutritious meals this summer.

New Haven School Food unveiled the truck today at a dedication ceremony. NHPS Executive Director of Food Services Chef Tim Cipriano praised United Way of Greater New Haven for providing the funds to buy the truck.

“I want to thank United Way for its generosity in donating the money to purchase this food truck,” Cipriano said. “Thanks to United Way, we will bring good food directly to kids this summer and in future summers. This truck was certainly a team effort and the idea stems from a manager meeting a few years back where one of the managers from my team, Aisha Flynn, mentioned how cool it would be to have a converted ice cream truck to pass out meals to underserved neighborhoods. The truck today is where that vision has taken us.”

“Good nutrition is an essential building block for healthy growth and development and educational success. Often, the biggest barrier for kids and teens to participate in the free summer meals program is not being able to get to where they served. Embracing Gov. Malloy’s Connecticut No Kid Hungry Campaign charge - “We’ve got to make this work for everybody. We’re going to make this work in Connecticut.”- United Way and New Haven School Food are tackling the transportation barrier by bringing meals to where kids and teens live.”

United Way’s Summer Food Truck grant will enable NHPS to deliver two free meals a weekday – 1,000 free meals a day – to children living in underserved neighborhoods throughout New Haven. Federal funds will pay for the program.

New Haven School Food and United Way are partners in the Connecticut No Kid Hungry Campaign, an initiative to end childhood hunger in Connecticut by 2015 led by Gov. Dannel Malloy, End Hunger Connecticut! and Share Our Strength. This is the first food truck to serve free summer meals to children and teens in Connecticut.

Almost one in five Connecticut households with children -- 18.7% -- struggle to put food on the table, meaning more than 127,000 children in the state are considered food insecure. More than 75% of New Haven students qualified for free and reduced price school meals in 2010. However, of students enrolled in school meals programs, only one in four received meals last year through the federally-funded Summer Food Service Program.

“Kids and teens do not stop needing healthy meals when school is out,” Cipriano said. “In fact, summer can be one of the toughest times for families who rely on school food programs to make ends meet. Thank you to the United Way and Lt. Governor Wyman for sharing this historic day with us.”

The truck will be hitting the streets soon, just some last minute adjustments needed and it will be on the road! Here is the plan of sites and times once service begins:

School                            Address                      Lunch                          Supper

Betsy Ross School         150 Kimberly Ave       10:30am-11:15am       4:00pm-4:45pm

Helene Grant School      185 Goffe Street           11:30am-12:15pm     5:00pm-5:45pm

Microsociety School       311 Valley Street          12:30pm-1:15pm      6:00pm-6:45pm

Friday, June 24, 2011

Summer Meals in New Haven grows to new heights!

Great news for summer food in New Haven!

Today through July 15th Independent Outdoor, a digital billboard company has donated ad apace to us to promote our summer meals program!

Jpegs of the English and spanish signs are below:

The location is on heavily travelled Interstate 95 at the Q-Bridge. We are very excited to work with the community to advertise such a great program.

Check out the *NEW* CT Summer Food website, http://www.ctsummerfood.org/ for a location finder and great resources!

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

FREE FOOD FOR KIDS THIS SUMMER...and a NEW Food Truck in CT!

FREE FOOD FOR KIDS THIS SUMMER...and a NEW Food Truck in CT!

New Haven School Food will be serving FREE breakfast and lunch meals to all children 18 and under in Hamden and New Haven this summer at 41 open sites from Tuesday 7/5/11 until Friday 8/5/11.
Our goal is to feed as many children in New Haven this summer as possible.

Hungry Kids and the summer unfortunately go hand in hand. Not ALL children looking forward to the school year being finished. Despite not having to cram for tests, do homework and the ability to sleep late in the morning, summertime also opens up a severe problem to hungry children; a LACK OF FOOD.

In 2009, more than 12 million children in America were hungry. That's was one in six who were at risk of hunger. In 2011 I am sad to report that there are now over 17 million children who have limited or uncertain access to the nutritious foods they need to develop to their full potential, that equates to one in four children who are at risk of hunger! School districts nationwide are experiencing a rapid increase in the number of families applying and qualifying for free and reduced meals.

Feeding kids this summer is now more important than ever!

For a list of the site locations for Hamden & New Haven with dates and times go to www.nhps.net/summermeals and for information on sites in other CT town go to http://www.ctsummerfood.org/

FOOD TRUCK:
CT's newest food truck in in production now. New Haven School Food is receiving a FREE Summer Meals Food Truck thanks to a funding opportunity from the United Way of Greater New Haven. More information soon, check out the progression of the truck HERE.

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Saturday, June 4, 2011

New Haven Serves up Fantastic Offerings to Put an End to Childhood Hunger

New Haven Serves up Fantastic Offerings to Put an End to Childhood Hunger

by Timothy Cipriano

Over the past several years, Americans have gradually taken a much greater interest in what we feed our children and where this food comes from. As childhood obesity has developed into a national epidemic and concerns about tainted and unsafe food have created fear among American consumers, Connecticut residents can take solace in the fact that the public school districts are doing something to address these issues.

As the Executive Director for Food Services for New Haven Public Schools, and as a parent, my passion is feeding children and offering them access to delicious healthy meals with a local flavor. I have seen first-hand the positive impact providing higher quality food can have on our young people. In New Haven, as in many other school districts across CT, the food we serve in our schools may be the only food these children consume on a daily basis. It is disheartening to think that with all the fame and glamour attributed to chefs and the food industry in this country, that the children in our communities must continue to desperately seek it to keep nourished.

In 2009, more than 12 million children in America were hungry. That's was one in six who were at risk of hunger. In 2011 I am sad to report that there are now over 17 million children who have limited or uncertain access to the nutritious foods they need to develop to their full potential, that equates to one in four children who are at risk of hunger! School districts nationwide are experiencing a rapid increase in the number of families applying and qualifying for free and reduced meals. The need to serve additional meal in our schools has also increased. School breakfast programs are increasing and with the new legislation from the Healthy, Hunger- Free Kids Act of 2010 suppers will now be offered in schools nationwide.

Despite its devastating and highly visible consequences, childhood hunger is invisible. You can't see it just by looking, and you can't measure it in pounds, but it is among us: it affects black, white, Asian and Hispanic, short and tall, thin and chubby in every school district in Connecticut. According to a recent Connecticut Department of Public Health Report, we know that in just over one generation, US rates of obesity have approximately tripled among preschoolers and adolescents, and quadrupled among children aged 6 to 11 years. Unhealthy food choices & eating behaviors are major factors contributing to overweight and obesity. Obesity is a major risk factor for many chronic conditions, including 4 of the 10 leading causes of death in the US: heart disease, stroke, diabetes & several forms of cancer.

While there are many fundraising events throughout the year, Share Our Strength's Taste of the Nation is the only one of its kind where 100% of the ticket sale proceeds go directly to the fight to end childhood hunger, making an immediate impact right here in Connecticut. Please plan to join legendary Chef Jacques Pepin, Food Network’s Chef Duff Goldman, me and all of the fantastic restaurants that will be participating in Taste of the Nation New Haven on June 8th to make this our best year ever. We realize that the current economy may make you think twice of attending, but this is the economy when our children need us the most. Poverty is complex – feeding a child is not.

Timothy Cipriano is Executive Director for Food Services for New Haven Public Schools and Co-Chair of Taste of the Nation New Haven. For additional information or to purchase tickets, visit www.TasteOfTheNation.org/NewHaven

Thursday, June 2, 2011

NEW HAVEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS CELEBRATES CHEFS MOVE TO SCHOOLS FIRST ANNIVERSARY

MEDIA ALERT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 2, 2011

Media Contact: Timothy Cipriano, (203) 946-8813 ext. 11 Cell – (203) 410-0831

timothy.cipriano@new-haven.k12.ct.us

NEW HAVEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS CELEBRATES CHEFS MOVE TO SCHOOLS FIRST ANNIVERSARY

Brennan-Rogers School 2nd graders to learn about Farmer’s Markets & Local Foods

What: Celebration of the First Anniversary of the Chefs Move to Schools program with the 2nd grade students of Brennan-Rogers School.

The 2nd graders will each receive a copy of Tractor Mac, Farmer’s Market Book by Billy Steers, donated by The Plow to Plate® program which originated in New Milford, CT. The story will be read to the students by Mary Dale DeBor, founder of Plow to Plate®, and a consultant to health care and other community -based organizations, now living in New Haven. The students will also receive tomato seeds donated by HJ Heinz Company and a special chef hat from Chef Tim.

When: Friday, June 3, 2011. 10:30am

Where: Brennan-Rogers School (Clarence Rogers Building)

199 Wilmot Road, New Haven, CT 06515

Additional Information:

“Chefs Move to Schools has been a fantastic program in our schools since it was kicked off on the south lawn of the White House June 4, 2011. The chefs working with us in our schools have embraced the program and the kids love meeting with and learning from the chefs.” Chef Timothy Cipriano, Executive Director of Food Services, “We have adapted our version to include additional components surrounding farm to school, school gardens and promoting and serving items from those component on our salad bars.”

The Chefs Move to Schools program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), matches chefs with school districts to help schools improve health and nutrition that meet the schools’ dietary guidelines and budgets, while teaching young people about nutrition and making balanced and healthy choices. With more than 31 million children participating in the National School Lunch Program and more than 11 million participating in the National School Breakfast Program, good nutrition at school is more important than ever. http://www.letsmove.gov/chefs-move-schools

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Friday, May 20, 2011

New Haven Public Schools are feeding the future with salad bars from Whole Foods Market®

New Haven Public Schools are feeding the future with salad bars from Whole Foods Market®

Thirty three schools will have new healthy salad bars in lunchrooms in time for back-to-school

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (May 20, 2011) – The New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) were selected to receive 33 healthy salad bar kits through Whole Foods Market’s Salad Bar Project, a campaign created to help empower schools to increase their students’ lunchtime consumption of fruits and vegetables.

Tim Cipriano, Food Service Director for New Haven Public Schools, led the grant application process for the school district and was thrilled when he was notified that 33 schools would receive salad bar grants from Whole Foods Market. “With the addition of these salad bars, the children in our schools will have more access to fresh vegetables and legumes. Salad bars are a great way to open up the world of fresh, locally grown products to our children. Some of the produce served will come from our own school gardens. The concept of students eating student grown food will have a significant impact on the lives of our children.”

Schools receiving salad bars include:

- Augusta Lewis Troup School
- L.W. Beecher Museum School of Arts & Sciences
- Benjamin Jepson
- Betsy Ross Arts School
- Bishop Woods School
- Brennan-Rogers School (2, one for each building)
- Celentano Museum Academy
- Clemente Leadership Academy
- Clinton Avenue School
- Columbus Family Academy
- Conte-West Hills School
- Davis Street Arts & Academics School
- East Rock School
- Edgewood School
- Engineering and Science University Magnet School
- Fair Haven School
- High School In the Community
- Hill Central Music Academy
- John C. Daniels School of International Communication
- John S. Martinez School
- King-Robinson International Baccalaureate School
- Lincoln Bassett School
- Metropolitan Business Academy
- Microsociety School
- Nathan Hale School
- New Horizons School
- Ross Woodward Classical Studies School
- Sound School
- Truman School
- Wexler-Grant School
- Worthington Hooker School (2, one for each building)

Of the nearly 20,800 students enrolled in New Haven Public Schools, 80 percent qualify for free or reduced lunches. Last school year, over 5.12 million meals were served to students.

“Salad bars are an amazing tool to empower children to make healthy food choices,” said Nona Evans, Salad Bar Project Coordinator for Whole Foods Market. “According to a 2010 UCLA study, children who have salad bars in school lunchrooms consume significantly more fruits and vegetables than those who do not. We hope many more schools and districts will apply for a salad bar grant through Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools whose goal is 6000 salad bars in schools by 2013.”

The salad bar kits include a five-well Cambro® salad bar complete with utensils, pan inserts, chilling pads and training tools. The NHPS salad bars will feature a variety of locally sourced fresh foods that Cipriano has helped source through Farm to School and other healthy eating initiatives. For more information on New Haven Public Schools visit www.nhps.net/NHSchoolFood and more information on Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools go to http://www.saladbars2schools.org/.

About Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools:

Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools was developed to support the First Lady’s Let’s Move! initiative to solve childhood obesity within a generation. Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools is a comprehensive grassroots public health effort to mobilize and engage stakeholders at the national, state and local level to support salad bars in schools. With the goal of significantly increasing children’s fruit and vegetable consumption through school salad bars, the Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools initiative is committed to 6,000 salad bars to schools across the country over the next three years. The founding partners of the Lets Move Salad Bars to Schools initiative are the National Fruit and Vegetable Alliance, the Food, Family, Farming (F3) Foundation, and the United Fresh Produce Association Foundation. For more information about Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools, interested parties are encouraged to visit the initiative’s website, http://www.saladbars2schools.org/.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

New Haven School Food Chefs are Headed Back to 2nd Grade!

New Haven School Food Chefs are Headed Back to 2^nd Grade!

Chef Timothy Cipriano, Executive Director of Food Services and a team of chefs are headed back to 2^nd grade with Chefs Move to Schools, part of the First Lady’s Let’s Move Initiative.

What: Chefs Move to Schools Healthy Snack Event

When: Monday May, 16, 2011; 3:00pm

Where: Clarence Rogers School, 199 Wilmot Road, New Haven; Cafeteria

Chef Tim and a team of school food chefs will descend on Clarence Rogers School to visit the 2nd Grade students from the classes of teachers Dawn Vontz and Christina Guerra. Ms. Vontz and Ms. Guerra have been teaching the children about nutrition this year and Chef Tim and his team of chefs will prepare a healthy snack for the students. This event is geared at increasing the excitement of healthy food for the children.

“Systematic change in needed in this country to control childhood obesity and to educate our children on proper nutrition and choosing REAL foods. With the support of the Culinary Institute of America, Share Our Strength, School Nutrition Association and many other local and national organizations this change has begun. Chefs are ROCK stars; children look up to us,” says Cipriano. “When I walk into one of my schools in my chef jacket the eyes of the children light up and I am asked if I cook on TV. The children are more interested to what I have to say, it is very easy to engage children with food. Children want to learn and Chefs Move to Schools is the program to see through with the necessary change. I am very happy to be working so close with the White House to help make these changes.”

Chef Tim, recently named a ‘Champion of Change’ by the White House joined roughly 1,000 other Chefs from across the nation in June of 2010 at the White House to officially kick off Chefs Move to Schools (CMTS). CMTS asks chefs from around the country to adopt schools in their communities to work with teachers, parents and school nutrition professionals to help educate kids about food and nutrition. The goal is to promote chefs as the catalyst for creating a new nation of child food advocates.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Chef Tim will be one of the featured speakers on White House Webinar!

Please join us!

What: Chefs Move to Schools Q&A Webinar

Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011

Time: 2:30pm - 3:30pm EST

Registration Link: http://vovici.com/wsb.dll/s/17fb9g4a251

Description: The Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service invites you to participate in this one-hour webinar to learn more about how chefs and schools are working together to help children make healthier food and beverage choices.

Our February 24th Chefs Move to Schools Webinar generated so much interest that we are hosting this second webinar to answer some of the most commonly asked questions as well as provide time for participating chefs and schools to ask any additional questions they have about Chefs Move to Schools.

Our question and answer panel will include:

• Sam Kass, White House Assistant Chef and the Food Initiative Coordinator;

• Janey Thornton, US Department of Agriculture, Deputy Under Secretary Food and Nutrition Service;

• Garrett Berdan, RD, Chef volunteering at Schools in the Bend LaPine School District in Bend, Oregon;

• Katrina Wiest, Wellness Specialist, Bend LaPine Schools Nutrition Services in Bend, Oregon;

• Carlin Breinig, Chef, volunteering at Autrey Mill Middle School in Johns Creek, Georgia;

• Timothy Cipriano, Chef and Executive Director of Food Services for New Haven Public Schools in New Haven, Connecticut;

• Kern Halls, Area Manager of Food and Nutrition Services for Orange County Schools In Orlando, Florida; and

• others around the country who are participating in the Chefs Move to Schools program.
Target Audience: Chefs and school personnel participating in the Chefs Move to Schools program

Additional Information: Please see the Chefs Move to Schools website and Panelists’s Biographies.

Participation: This session will be available via Microsoft Office LiveMeeting (Webinar) and is free for all participants. You will need access to a phone line and a computer with internet access for this webinar. To participate, please complete the online registration. Further information will be forthcoming to registered participants. You must register to receive additional information.

Questions?

If you have any questions on the presentation, please contact:
Erika Pijai

USDA Food and Nutrition Service

Erika.Pijai@fns.usda.gov

If you have any questions on the webinar logistics, please contact:

Emily Buckham Buday

USDA Food and Nutrition Service

Emily.Buckham@fns.usda.gov

703-605-0772

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