The winner of Recipe for Success Foundation's 2012 Mayors Award: Champion of Food Justice, Farmer Brad Stufflebeam, owner of Home Sweet Farm, gets applause from Edible Austin in their Fall/Winter Issue. Follow this link to the full article and plan to congratulate Brad in person at the November 19th Blue Plate Special Awards Lunch being held at the Houstonian Hotel
This op-ed by Recipe for Success Founder, Gracie Cavnar appeared in The Houston Chronicle on Sunday, October 19, 2012. . .Put down that cheeseburger and wrap your brain around this: A recent report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation projected that half of all adults in the U.S. will be obese by 2030. To make matters worse, the RAND corporation
How do you define school supplies? Of course there are the ubiquitous backpacks, pencils, crayons, rulers, scissors and all the other quintessential necessities for the classroom. But what if we expand the accepted definition of "school supplies" to include what children tote around in their lunch boxes? The lunchroom is just as much of an educational setting as the
Our friends at Farmhouse Delivery whipped up wonderful party plans at Rain Lily Farm to celebrate the publication of Eat It! Food Adventures. We are doing it again in the spring of 2013. Gather the kids and plan to join us. Reserve your tickets HERE (additional child tickets available at the door), or RSVP with your Farmhouse Delivery Form.
Unlike Woody Allen and Diane Keaten in the famous Annie Hall lobster scene, RFS Team Leader, Chef Ronnie Alford and her husband Chef Jon Alford run a smooth operation working together in their home kitchen without stepping on each others toes--either figuratively or physically. The newlywed couple shows Deborah Duncan and her audience at Great Day Houston their secrets to
Although parents aren't usually in the cafeteria when little Johnny or Jill opens the lunchbox or goes through the line, we think it's a good idea for parent's to get into their heads.Lunchbox prep is only one piece of the nutrition pie. As the kiddos head off to school, a parent's role expands to teacher, educator and nutritionist. Arm your
Recipe for Success Foundation's Science Advisory Chair, Dr. Deanna Hoelscher has measured a small decline in obesity rates among fourth graders in the El Paso, Texas area -- results that had her doing a double take. Dr. Hoelscher was one of several scientists capturing these trends in cities large and small that have had broad sets of anti-obesity measures in
Congratulations to our 2012 Journalism Contest winner, Jaqueline Marroquin, from Whittier Elementary! Guatemalan Tamales, by Jaqueline Morroquin It's Christmas time! And you know what that means... It's time to make some delicious Guatemalan Tamales. My mom is from Guatemala and all her family gets together during the holidays and celebrates with food and gifts. In American, our relatives come
