This school year, like last year, brings both new challenges, and new opportunities. With school meals free to all students again this year, and more pre-packaged and processed foods being served to schools due to the pandemic, it’s more important than ever to serve fresh fruits and vegetables, and cooked-from-scratch…
By Heidi Stimac
Kristen Mcguan’s creative spirit shines through the East Grand School District salad bar program where she has been Food Service Director for the past 3 years. Her favorite part about the program is when she sees students take ideas from the bars home. When kale chips and jicama…
Marblehead Community Charter Public School revamps their salad bar participation with new equipment from SB2S.
By: Heidi Stimac
Marblehead Community Charter Public School (MCCPS) has been serving children in the Boston area for about 24 years, and has always had a salad bar. So what makes their participation in the Salad Bars…
Vista Unified School District is Bridging the Gap Between Students and Their Food Sources
By: Heidi Stimac
Roasted chickpeas and fresh pomegranates are items you probably don’t expect to see in an ordinary school cafeteria. But luckily for the students at Vista Unified School District (VUSD) in Oceanside, California, Director of Child…
An interview with school food service expert Tim Cipriano
Chef Tim Cipriano started his career in the kitchen as a child, but who wouldn’t with a great grandmother nicknamed “Nana Noodles”? Tim spent many years working in restaurants before starting a family. It was at that pivotal point in his life that…
An Interview with Rodney Taylor, Food Services Director
Rodney Taylor knows a few things about feeding children healthy and delicious food. He and his staff serve over 35,000 students a day in the 47 schools that make up Riverside Unified School District (RUSD) in California. Of those students, 68% qualify for…
An Interview with Michelle Denk, Food Services Director
Schools are doing local food right all across the country. For Mount Horeb Area School District in Wisconsin, it’s not a new idea. Food Services Director Michelle Denk says they’ve had a Harvest of the Month program for ten years. Now armed with…
