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The last of the lunch ladies: How school meals shifted from scratch cooking to reheated trays

Remember when the lunch lady knew your name? When school cafeterias smelled like actual cooking, not just things being warmed ...
Sentinel & Enterprise

FPS goes green with compostable trays in 4 schools

FITCHBURG — Being eco-friendly is extremely important in Fitchburg Public Schools. In Nutrition Services, a switch to compostable, non-styrofoam food trays has been in the works for close to four ...
Wyoming News

From farms to schools to trays: USDA program highlights local foods in school cafeterias

POWELL — Every year in early October, schools across the nation look locally for their foods, and students learn a little bit more about the lunch on their plate. It answers the age-old question, ...
Casper Star-Tribune

Rawlins schools serve up biodegradable food trays

RAWLINS - Students at Rawlins Middle School started licking and smelling their food trays last week. They had heard that new, biodegradable trays were made of a sugarcane product and thought they ...
Smithsonian Magazine

American Schools Have Been Feeding Children for More Than 100 Years. Here’s How the School Lunch Has Changed

Philadelphia children eating a "three-cent dinner" at school, featured in the 1913 book School Feeding: Its History and Practice at Home and Abroad Science History Institute A new exhibition in ...
WHYY

Food fight: The history of the school lunch at Philly’s Science History Institute

An exhibit at Philadelphia's Science History Institute looks at food science through the lens of the school lunch program. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, ...
The New York Times

If You Think the School Lunch Battle is New — Go to Philadelphia

A science museum in the city looks back at the history of feeding children in schools and reminds us how fraught the efforts have been for more than 100 years. By Shannon Eblen Reporting from ...