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But advocates on both sides aren't backing off, and there are new players in the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When First Lady Michelle Obama \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/27/316457427/first-lady-fights-to-keep-healthy-school-lunch-law-intact\">spoke up\u003c/a> up to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/06/11/320882341/school-lunch-debate-whats-at-stake\">question proposals \u003c/a>that would relax requirements — such as the mandate that kids take a fruit or vegetable with their lunch — she had by her side \u003ca href=\"http://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/aap-press-room-media-center/Pages/James-M-Perrin-MD-FAAP-Bio.aspx\">James Perrin\u003c/a>, the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Children typically consume up to half of their daily calories in school,\" Perrin said, so it's important that they get high-quality calories at school. \"Rolling back the standards is the wrong choice for children\" he said — a choice that would \"put politics ahead of science.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The First Lady's push on this issue has helped put the School Nutrition Association association on the defense. And SNA leaders are \u003ca href=\"http://docs.schoolnutrition.org/files/SNA%20June%2019%20Letter%20to%20First%20Lady%20Sec%20Vilsack.pdf\">asking \u003c/a>to meet with the administration to better explain their \u003ca href=\"http://www.schoolnutrition.org/uploadedFiles/School_Nutrition/11_News/protect%20school%20meals.pdf?n=729\">specific requests \u003c/a> for schools, in terms of more time and flexibility in meeting the new standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now leaders of the National School Board Association are weighing in with their concerns over what they say is \"federal overreach on school meals.\" (The NSBA \u003ca href=\"http://www.nsba.org/sites/default/files/reports/NSBA-Issue-Brief-on-School-Nutrition.pdf\">has previously stated\u003c/a> its concerns about the cost of implementing the standards for a few months now.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School board members from New York, Alabama and Pennsylvania told reporters they need \"greater local flexibility rather than the trend towards top down federal requirements\" to implement the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/school-meals/healthy-hunger-free-kids-act\">Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the First Lady says now is not the time to turn back the standards that have already been passed into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points out that over 90 percent of schools report that they are successfully meeting — or are in the process of meeting — the updated nutrition standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as for the complaints that some kids just won't eat their vegetables, it's not surprising that some kids resist, at least at first. \"We just didn't expect the grown-ups to go along,\" Mrs. Obama said June 18 at a small roundtable discussion with reporters at the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we've reported, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the school feeding programs, has offered technical assistance and grants to schools that are having trouble making changes in their cafeterias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, along the way, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has tried to dispel what he says are myths about the HHFKA. Here are a few:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Myth 1: Kids are not eating more fruits and vegetables. Vilsack says that's not accurate. Specifically, \"a recent Harvard study has concluded that, under the updated standards, kids are now eating 16 percent more vegetables and 23 percent more fruit at lunch\" compared to before the HHFKA was implemented, according to the USDA \u003ca href=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/pressrelease/2014/009814\">fact sheet\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Myth 2: Schools Are Losing Money. The SNA says about one million fewer kids are buying school lunch, which is leading to economic hardship. But Vilsack says, though some districts may be struggling, the system as a whole is seeing more revenue. In fact, a USDA analysis suggests that in the first year after implementation, schools saw a net nationwide increase in revenue from school lunches of approximately $200 million.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Myth 3: The new nutrition standards are leading to more plate waste. As we've reported, some school food directors are reporting that students are tossing away foods they don't want to eat. But the USDA says there's no evidence that plate waste has increased. The agency points to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797%2813%2900635-1/abstract\">recent study\u003c/a> by the Harvard School of Public health that showed the new school meal standards did not result in increased plate waste.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Leaders of the National School Board Association say they're concerned about \"federal overreach on school meals.\" But the First Lady maintains that now is not the time to turn back the standards.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1403549314,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":659},"headData":{"title":"School Nutrition Fight Widens As School Board Members Join In | KQED","description":"Leaders of the National School Board Association say they're concerned about "federal overreach on school meals." But the First Lady maintains that now is not the time to turn back the standards.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"83810 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=83810","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/06/23/school-nutrition-fight-widens-as-school-board-members-join-in/","disqusTitle":"School Nutrition Fight Widens As School Board Members Join In","nprByline":"Allison Aubrey","nprStoryId":"324802957","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=324802957&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/06/23/324802957/first-lady-not-alone-in-crying-foul-on-school-nutrition-politics?ft=3&f=324802957","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 23 Jun 2014 13:46:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Mon, 23 Jun 2014 13:38:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 23 Jun 2014 13:46:20 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/83810/school-nutrition-fight-widens-as-school-board-members-join-in","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_83816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/06/first-lady-roundtable.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/06/first-lady-roundtable.jpg\" alt=\"First Lady Michelle Obama at a roundtable for reporters in her office in the East Wing of the White House, on June 18. Photo: Chuck Kennedy/The White House\" width=\"1120\" height=\"841\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83816\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Lady Michelle Obama at a roundtable for reporters in her office in the East Wing of the White House, on June 18. Photo: Chuck Kennedy/The White House\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by Allison Aubrey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/06/23/324802957/first-lady-not-alone-in-crying-foul-on-school-nutrition-politics\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (6/23/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The political food fight over rolling back school nutrition standards is at an impasse for the moment. But advocates on both sides aren't backing off, and there are new players in the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When First Lady Michelle Obama \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/27/316457427/first-lady-fights-to-keep-healthy-school-lunch-law-intact\">spoke up\u003c/a> up to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/06/11/320882341/school-lunch-debate-whats-at-stake\">question proposals \u003c/a>that would relax requirements — such as the mandate that kids take a fruit or vegetable with their lunch — she had by her side \u003ca href=\"http://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/aap-press-room-media-center/Pages/James-M-Perrin-MD-FAAP-Bio.aspx\">James Perrin\u003c/a>, the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Children typically consume up to half of their daily calories in school,\" Perrin said, so it's important that they get high-quality calories at school. \"Rolling back the standards is the wrong choice for children\" he said — a choice that would \"put politics ahead of science.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The First Lady's push on this issue has helped put the School Nutrition Association association on the defense. And SNA leaders are \u003ca href=\"http://docs.schoolnutrition.org/files/SNA%20June%2019%20Letter%20to%20First%20Lady%20Sec%20Vilsack.pdf\">asking \u003c/a>to meet with the administration to better explain their \u003ca href=\"http://www.schoolnutrition.org/uploadedFiles/School_Nutrition/11_News/protect%20school%20meals.pdf?n=729\">specific requests \u003c/a> for schools, in terms of more time and flexibility in meeting the new standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now leaders of the National School Board Association are weighing in with their concerns over what they say is \"federal overreach on school meals.\" (The NSBA \u003ca href=\"http://www.nsba.org/sites/default/files/reports/NSBA-Issue-Brief-on-School-Nutrition.pdf\">has previously stated\u003c/a> its concerns about the cost of implementing the standards for a few months now.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School board members from New York, Alabama and Pennsylvania told reporters they need \"greater local flexibility rather than the trend towards top down federal requirements\" to implement the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/school-meals/healthy-hunger-free-kids-act\">Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the First Lady says now is not the time to turn back the standards that have already been passed into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She points out that over 90 percent of schools report that they are successfully meeting — or are in the process of meeting — the updated nutrition standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as for the complaints that some kids just won't eat their vegetables, it's not surprising that some kids resist, at least at first. \"We just didn't expect the grown-ups to go along,\" Mrs. Obama said June 18 at a small roundtable discussion with reporters at the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we've reported, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the school feeding programs, has offered technical assistance and grants to schools that are having trouble making changes in their cafeterias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, along the way, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has tried to dispel what he says are myths about the HHFKA. Here are a few:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Myth 1: Kids are not eating more fruits and vegetables. Vilsack says that's not accurate. Specifically, \"a recent Harvard study has concluded that, under the updated standards, kids are now eating 16 percent more vegetables and 23 percent more fruit at lunch\" compared to before the HHFKA was implemented, according to the USDA \u003ca href=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/pressrelease/2014/009814\">fact sheet\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Myth 2: Schools Are Losing Money. The SNA says about one million fewer kids are buying school lunch, which is leading to economic hardship. But Vilsack says, though some districts may be struggling, the system as a whole is seeing more revenue. In fact, a USDA analysis suggests that in the first year after implementation, schools saw a net nationwide increase in revenue from school lunches of approximately $200 million.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Myth 3: The new nutrition standards are leading to more plate waste. As we've reported, some school food directors are reporting that students are tossing away foods they don't want to eat. But the USDA says there's no evidence that plate waste has increased. The agency points to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797%2813%2900635-1/abstract\">recent study\u003c/a> by the Harvard School of Public health that showed the new school meal standards did not result in increased plate waste.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/83810/school-nutrition-fight-widens-as-school-board-members-join-in","authors":["byline_bayareabites_83810"],"categories":["bayareabites_1246","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_9530","bayareabites_13410","bayareabites_13411","bayareabites_450","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_83816","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_83212":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_83212","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"83212","score":null,"sort":[1402517834000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"lobbyists-loom-behind-the-scenes-of-school-nutrition-fight","title":"Lobbyists Loom Behind The Scenes Of School Nutrition Fight","publishDate":1402517834,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_83213\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2941px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/06/schwan-pizza-d1f8ac165fe755069a4d9b6e453bcfb3c8856d33.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/06/schwan-pizza-d1f8ac165fe755069a4d9b6e453bcfb3c8856d33.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick McCoy (right) and Harry Fowler of the Schwan Food Co. show off their company's Big Daddy's pizza at the School Nutrition Association's national conference in Chicago in 2007. Photo: Brian Kersey/AP\" width=\"2941\" height=\"2208\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83213\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrick McCoy (right) and Harry Fowler of the Schwan Food Co. show off their company's Big Daddy's pizza at the School Nutrition Association's national conference in Chicago in 2007. Photo: Brian Kersey/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/06/11/320753007/behind-the-scenes-of-school-nutrition-fight-big-food-money-flows\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2014/06/20140611_me_behind_the_scenes_of_school_nutrition_fight_big_food_money_flows.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/2778302/peter-overby\">Peter Overby\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/06/11/320753007/behind-the-scenes-of-school-nutrition-fight-big-food-money-flows\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (6/11/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.schoolnutrition.org/\">School Nutrition Association\u003c/a> — what you might call the national organization for lunch ladies (and gents) — says it was trying to improve the healthfulness of school lunches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it says the U.S. Agriculture Department didn't help when things got tough, so it went to Congress. House Republicans provided help, but they also put the group in the middle of a partisan battle over what to feed America's school students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alabama Republican Rep. Robert Aderholt, who chairs the subcommittee that decides how much money the school nutrition program gets each year, is not a fan of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/school-meals/healthy-hunger-free-kids-act\">Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act,\u003c/a> as it stands. \"This is where the heavy hand of the government is coming down and trying to dictate to local school systems,\" he said at a meeting of the House Appropriations Committee in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we've \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/30/317161292/health-advocates-lament-gop-move-to-relax-school-lunch-rules\">reported\u003c/a>, he is pushing for a one-year waiver of the new nutrition rules if a district can show the standards cost too much. \"It only gives the schools more time to adjust,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposal goes beyond what the School Nutrition Association initially asked for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Aderholt's provision, school districts can get a yearlong waiver from all of the standards set by the new standards — even those already in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats say Republicans just want to kill off the nutrition standards next year. During the May committee meeting, Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz asked Aderholt if Republicans intended to eliminate the nutrition standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not in this bill,\" he said, prompting other lawmakers to laugh. \"There are movements out there that would like to change it ... but this does not do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2010, the SNA vigorously supported the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act. Now it embraces Aderholt's provision, although president Leah Schmidt, a nutritionist from Kansas City, Mo., says the group only asked for help on four specific issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The waiver was not one of our original asks,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, those issues might have been fixed in talks with the USDA, but the association dismissed a lobbyist with good USDA connections last year. The new lobbyists have good connections with congressional Republicans, and now Schmidt sounds a lot like Aderholt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These overprescriptive regulations have made it really difficult for a lot of our members. And we are in this for our members,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Environmental Working Group noted Tuesday in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/agmag/2014/06/pizza-and-french-fry-lobbyists-also-speak-lunch-ladies#.U5dIRL9MuTI.twitter\">blog post\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/840/840445578/840445578_201207_990O.pdf\">tax records\u003c/a> show that $6.7 million of $10.5 million the School Nutrition Association collected in 2012 came from \u003ca href=\"http://docs.schoolnutrition.org/meetingsandevents/anc2014/sponsors.asp\">sponsorship fees\u003c/a> from food companies like Schwan's Food Service, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.mprnews.org/story/2011/11/18/schwan-foods-pizza-as-vegetable-minnesota-delegation\">major provider\u003c/a> of pizza to schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the SNA may also be getting some corporate lobbying help. Schwan's Food Service reported that it was lobbying on the school nutrition issue. Company officials didn't respond to NPR's phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other big players in school nutrition — ConAgra and the American Frozen Food Institute — tell NPR they're sitting out the fight over the waiver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shift in SNA's approach also means it is up against its old liberal-leaning allies who want the nutrition standards to stay, including the Center for Science in the Public Interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Instead of working cooperatively to try to help those schools that are struggling, SNA is working with a number of conservatives that completely oppose the school nutrition standards and are trying to gut them,\" says Margo Wootan, the center's director of food policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the pressure is on. First lady Michelle Obama is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/05/27/first-lady-fights-to-keep-healthful-school-lunch-law-intact/\">stepping up\u003c/a> her efforts to save the standards, and 19 former presidents of the SNA are asking Congress to reject the waiver. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"School food service administrators once supported new healthy food requirements on the nation's school lunch program. But now, they want the rules delayed. 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Photo: Brian Kersey/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/06/11/320753007/behind-the-scenes-of-school-nutrition-fight-big-food-money-flows\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2014/06/20140611_me_behind_the_scenes_of_school_nutrition_fight_big_food_money_flows.mp3","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/2778302/peter-overby\">Peter Overby\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/06/11/320753007/behind-the-scenes-of-school-nutrition-fight-big-food-money-flows\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (6/11/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.schoolnutrition.org/\">School Nutrition Association\u003c/a> — what you might call the national organization for lunch ladies (and gents) — says it was trying to improve the healthfulness of school lunches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it says the U.S. Agriculture Department didn't help when things got tough, so it went to Congress. House Republicans provided help, but they also put the group in the middle of a partisan battle over what to feed America's school students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alabama Republican Rep. Robert Aderholt, who chairs the subcommittee that decides how much money the school nutrition program gets each year, is not a fan of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/school-meals/healthy-hunger-free-kids-act\">Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act,\u003c/a> as it stands. \"This is where the heavy hand of the government is coming down and trying to dictate to local school systems,\" he said at a meeting of the House Appropriations Committee in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we've \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/30/317161292/health-advocates-lament-gop-move-to-relax-school-lunch-rules\">reported\u003c/a>, he is pushing for a one-year waiver of the new nutrition rules if a district can show the standards cost too much. \"It only gives the schools more time to adjust,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposal goes beyond what the School Nutrition Association initially asked for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Aderholt's provision, school districts can get a yearlong waiver from all of the standards set by the new standards — even those already in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats say Republicans just want to kill off the nutrition standards next year. During the May committee meeting, Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz asked Aderholt if Republicans intended to eliminate the nutrition standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not in this bill,\" he said, prompting other lawmakers to laugh. \"There are movements out there that would like to change it ... but this does not do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2010, the SNA vigorously supported the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act. Now it embraces Aderholt's provision, although president Leah Schmidt, a nutritionist from Kansas City, Mo., says the group only asked for help on four specific issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The waiver was not one of our original asks,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, those issues might have been fixed in talks with the USDA, but the association dismissed a lobbyist with good USDA connections last year. The new lobbyists have good connections with congressional Republicans, and now Schmidt sounds a lot like Aderholt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These overprescriptive regulations have made it really difficult for a lot of our members. And we are in this for our members,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Environmental Working Group noted Tuesday in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/agmag/2014/06/pizza-and-french-fry-lobbyists-also-speak-lunch-ladies#.U5dIRL9MuTI.twitter\">blog post\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/840/840445578/840445578_201207_990O.pdf\">tax records\u003c/a> show that $6.7 million of $10.5 million the School Nutrition Association collected in 2012 came from \u003ca href=\"http://docs.schoolnutrition.org/meetingsandevents/anc2014/sponsors.asp\">sponsorship fees\u003c/a> from food companies like Schwan's Food Service, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.mprnews.org/story/2011/11/18/schwan-foods-pizza-as-vegetable-minnesota-delegation\">major provider\u003c/a> of pizza to schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the SNA may also be getting some corporate lobbying help. Schwan's Food Service reported that it was lobbying on the school nutrition issue. Company officials didn't respond to NPR's phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other big players in school nutrition — ConAgra and the American Frozen Food Institute — tell NPR they're sitting out the fight over the waiver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shift in SNA's approach also means it is up against its old liberal-leaning allies who want the nutrition standards to stay, including the Center for Science in the Public Interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Instead of working cooperatively to try to help those schools that are struggling, SNA is working with a number of conservatives that completely oppose the school nutrition standards and are trying to gut them,\" says Margo Wootan, the center's director of food policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the pressure is on. First lady Michelle Obama is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/05/27/first-lady-fights-to-keep-healthful-school-lunch-law-intact/\">stepping up\u003c/a> her efforts to save the standards, and 19 former presidents of the SNA are asking Congress to reject the waiver. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/83212/lobbyists-loom-behind-the-scenes-of-school-nutrition-fight","authors":["byline_bayareabites_83212"],"categories":["bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_1246","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_34"],"tags":["bayareabites_9530","bayareabites_8750","bayareabites_450","bayareabites_13453","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_83213","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_82597":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_82597","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"82597","score":null,"sort":[1401241829000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"first-lady-fights-to-keep-healthful-school-lunch-law-intact","title":"First Lady Fights To Keep Healthful School Lunch Law Intact","publishDate":1401241829,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_82598\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2566px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/05/ap12021004794-7164049fa8023937f5a9f5615c1148272723155e.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/05/ap12021004794-7164049fa8023937f5a9f5615c1148272723155e.jpg\" alt=\"First lady Michelle Obama has been doing a lot of high-fiving with schoolchildren like these in Dallas to promote healthful lifestyles. Now she's diving more deeply into the politics of school lunch. Photo: LM Otero/AP\" width=\"2566\" height=\"1923\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82598\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First lady Michelle Obama has been doing a lot of high-fiving with schoolchildren like these in Dallas to promote healthful lifestyles. Now she's diving more deeply into the politics of school lunch. Photo: LM Otero/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/27/316457427/first-lady-fights-to-keep-healthy-school-lunch-law-intact\">All Things Considered\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2014/05/20140527_atc_flotus_on_school_lunch_fight.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/122805042/tamara-keith\">Tamara Keith\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/27/316457427/first-lady-fights-to-keep-healthy-school-lunch-law-intact\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (5/27/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First lady Michelle Obama is by far one of the most popular political figures in America, because she's largely avoided appearing too political — instead devoting much of her attention to encouraging good nutrition and healthful lifestyles for America's children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that cause has run head-on into a congressional fight over stalling some of the nutritional gains of the school lunch program, which she helped put in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Obama sees it, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/school-meals/healthy-hunger-free-kids-act\">Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act\u003c/a> of 2010 is working. Childhood obesity has begun to tick down, and kids are eating more fruits and vegetables in their school cafeterias and choosing whole grains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're starting to move the curve on this,\" she said at a meeting near the White House Tuesday.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first lady met with school nutrition directors from districts that like the new menu standards. And she's launching a campaign to defeat congressional efforts to offer districts waivers or change the rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to be willing to fight the hard fight now. This is what I tell myself. In 10 or 20 years I don't want to look back with regret and think that we gave up on our kids because we felt like this thing was too hard or too expensive. We owe our kids way more than that,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, it's complicated. As we \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/05/21/lawmakers-seek-delay-on-healthy-lunch-rules-for-schools/\">reported\u003c/a> last week, the food industry and Republicans in Congress are looking to roll back some of the healthful menu changes, or at least delay them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a House appropriations subcommittee hearing last week, Alabama Republican Robert Aderholt introduced a provision to give some districts a temporary waiver from the lunch rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I continually hear from my schools in Alabama about the challenges and costs they are facing and their desperation for flexibility and relief so that they can operate a [school meal] program serving healthy foods the kids will eat,\" he said. The full committee is expected to vote on the measure later this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jean Ronnei, a chief operations officer for the St. Paul (Minn.) Public Schools, is facing challenges. She says currently half of all grains served in her district's cafeterias have to be whole grains. But soon, that will jump to 100 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We would like some flexibility to offer some items that might not be whole grain,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronnei is also vice president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.schoolnutrition.org/\">School Nutrition Association\u003c/a>. That group represents school food administrators and also gets money from food service companies. She says schools in the South are struggling to figure out whole grain biscuits or grits. Flour tortillas are a problem, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got a lot of students that are coming to us that are used to having white rice, basmati rice, white tortilla shells. And while it's certainly something to be able to offer whole grains, it would be nice to once in a while offer things that students are more accustomed to,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she says there's another problem with the current rules — kids just don't want to eat their vegetables. But now, schools are required to make students take at least one serving of fruits or vegetables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So what might happen is if it's not a popular item then it goes in the trash can, once they've gone through the cashier line,\" Ronnei says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Michelle Obama's fight to help kids eat more healthfully and fight obesity is about to get real. She's launching a campaign Tuesday to fight congressional efforts to delay new school food rules.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1401241829,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":640},"headData":{"title":"First Lady Fights To Keep Healthful School Lunch Law Intact | KQED","description":"Michelle Obama's fight to help kids eat more healthfully and fight obesity is about to get real. 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Photo: LM Otero/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/27/316457427/first-lady-fights-to-keep-healthy-school-lunch-law-intact\">All Things Considered\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2014/05/20140527_atc_flotus_on_school_lunch_fight.mp3","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/122805042/tamara-keith\">Tamara Keith\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/27/316457427/first-lady-fights-to-keep-healthy-school-lunch-law-intact\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (5/27/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First lady Michelle Obama is by far one of the most popular political figures in America, because she's largely avoided appearing too political — instead devoting much of her attention to encouraging good nutrition and healthful lifestyles for America's children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that cause has run head-on into a congressional fight over stalling some of the nutritional gains of the school lunch program, which she helped put in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Obama sees it, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/school-meals/healthy-hunger-free-kids-act\">Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act\u003c/a> of 2010 is working. Childhood obesity has begun to tick down, and kids are eating more fruits and vegetables in their school cafeterias and choosing whole grains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're starting to move the curve on this,\" she said at a meeting near the White House Tuesday.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first lady met with school nutrition directors from districts that like the new menu standards. And she's launching a campaign to defeat congressional efforts to offer districts waivers or change the rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to be willing to fight the hard fight now. This is what I tell myself. In 10 or 20 years I don't want to look back with regret and think that we gave up on our kids because we felt like this thing was too hard or too expensive. We owe our kids way more than that,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, it's complicated. As we \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/05/21/lawmakers-seek-delay-on-healthy-lunch-rules-for-schools/\">reported\u003c/a> last week, the food industry and Republicans in Congress are looking to roll back some of the healthful menu changes, or at least delay them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a House appropriations subcommittee hearing last week, Alabama Republican Robert Aderholt introduced a provision to give some districts a temporary waiver from the lunch rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I continually hear from my schools in Alabama about the challenges and costs they are facing and their desperation for flexibility and relief so that they can operate a [school meal] program serving healthy foods the kids will eat,\" he said. The full committee is expected to vote on the measure later this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jean Ronnei, a chief operations officer for the St. Paul (Minn.) Public Schools, is facing challenges. She says currently half of all grains served in her district's cafeterias have to be whole grains. But soon, that will jump to 100 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We would like some flexibility to offer some items that might not be whole grain,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronnei is also vice president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.schoolnutrition.org/\">School Nutrition Association\u003c/a>. That group represents school food administrators and also gets money from food service companies. She says schools in the South are struggling to figure out whole grain biscuits or grits. Flour tortillas are a problem, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got a lot of students that are coming to us that are used to having white rice, basmati rice, white tortilla shells. And while it's certainly something to be able to offer whole grains, it would be nice to once in a while offer things that students are more accustomed to,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she says there's another problem with the current rules — kids just don't want to eat their vegetables. But now, schools are required to make students take at least one serving of fruits or vegetables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So what might happen is if it's not a popular item then it goes in the trash can, once they've gone through the cashier line,\" Ronnei says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/82597/first-lady-fights-to-keep-healthful-school-lunch-law-intact","authors":["byline_bayareabites_82597"],"categories":["bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_34"],"tags":["bayareabites_10019","bayareabites_9530","bayareabites_13410","bayareabites_13411","bayareabites_2613","bayareabites_450","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_82598","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_72293":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_72293","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"72293","score":null,"sort":[1381891346000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"among-the-shutdown-victims-the-white-house-kitchen-garden","title":"Among The Shutdown Victims: The White House Kitchen Garden","publishDate":1381891346,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_72298\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/10/whitehousegarden.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/10/whitehousegarden.jpg\" alt=\" Basil, tomatoes, peppers and lettuces grow in garden beds on the South Lawn of the White House. According to the site Obama Foodorama, the government shutdown has had a dramatic effect on the garden. Photo: Eddie Gehman Kohan/ObamaFoodorama\" width=\"1120\" height=\"839\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72298\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Basil, tomatoes, peppers and lettuces grow in garden beds on the South Lawn of the White House. According to the site Obama Foodorama, the government shutdown has had a dramatic effect on the garden.\u003cbr>Photo: Eddie Gehman Kohan/\u003ca href=\"http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/2013/10/during-government-shutdown-michelle.html\">ObamaFoodorama\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Eliza Barclay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/10/15/234747012/among-the-shutdown-victims-the-white-house-kitchen-garden\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (10/15/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government shutdown has forced a lot of hard-working people into idleness. That includes most of the staff that tends the famed White House \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/tours_and_events/garden\">kitchen garden\u003c/a>, according to Obama Foodorama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the site \u003ca href=\"http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/2013/10/during-government-shutdown-michelle.html\">reported\u003c/a> that only a \u003ca href=\"http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/2013/10/at-white-house-skeletal-staff-during.html\">skeleton crew\u003c/a> of National Park Service gardeners remained on duty — permitted to water and remove trash, but not to weed and harvest the more than 30 kinds of vegetables growing there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This loss of okra, tomatoes and sweet potatoes is more symbolic than anything else — the president and his family are not going to starve for lack of their fall harvest, of course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's another, less obvious effect of the government shutdown on food production. And given all of the hard work that the first lady and her team have put into maintaining the garden, it's a tragedy to see tomatoes rotting on her vines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More serious, of course, is the severe pressure the shutdown is putting on critical government food assistance programs like \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/10/01/shutdown-leaves-program-feeding-women-and-infants-in-lurch/\">WIC\u003c/a>, which feeds pregnant women and mothers of young children, and food stamps and the people who rely on them for basic nutrition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as we enter Week 3 of the shutdown, other food producers are speaking up about how their livelihoods are being threatened by the absence of critical U.S. Department of Agriculture programs and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003cem>Morning Edition's\u003c/em> David Green \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/10/15/234587014/government-shutdown-delays-start-of-crab-season\">reported\u003c/a> Tuesday, Alaskan crabbers and their boats are stuck at the port because they can't get the permits they need to fish. Federal workers who issue those permits are off the job because of the government shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And according to the American Farmland Trust, farmers are struggling to plan for the future without access to crucial information, such as crop reports from the National Agriculture Statistics Service and other federal resources. \"Farmers have to make important business decisions based on educated guesses rather than hard data,\" the group \u003ca href=\"http://www.farmbillfacts.org/farm-policy-roundup-10-11-2013\">notes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government also subsidizes growers of some crops, like corn, when yields are low. And that means another group in limbo are the farmers who aren't sure when they'll be getting their subsidy checks this year. Montana Farmers Union President Alan Merrill \u003ca href=\"http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2013-10-03/rural-farming/government-shutdown-affects-montana-farms-and-ranches/a34830-1?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter\">told\u003c/a> a local news service that farm loans, disaster assistance and conservation program payments all have been put on hold.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nCopyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The unharvested food in the White House kitchen garden serves as a high-profile reminder of the shutdown's effects on food producers. 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According to the site Obama Foodorama, the government shutdown has had a dramatic effect on the garden. Photo: Eddie Gehman Kohan/ObamaFoodorama\" width=\"1120\" height=\"839\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72298\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Basil, tomatoes, peppers and lettuces grow in garden beds on the South Lawn of the White House. According to the site Obama Foodorama, the government shutdown has had a dramatic effect on the garden.\u003cbr>Photo: Eddie Gehman Kohan/\u003ca href=\"http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/2013/10/during-government-shutdown-michelle.html\">ObamaFoodorama\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Eliza Barclay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/10/15/234747012/among-the-shutdown-victims-the-white-house-kitchen-garden\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (10/15/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government shutdown has forced a lot of hard-working people into idleness. That includes most of the staff that tends the famed White House \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/tours_and_events/garden\">kitchen garden\u003c/a>, according to Obama Foodorama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the site \u003ca href=\"http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/2013/10/during-government-shutdown-michelle.html\">reported\u003c/a> that only a \u003ca href=\"http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/2013/10/at-white-house-skeletal-staff-during.html\">skeleton crew\u003c/a> of National Park Service gardeners remained on duty — permitted to water and remove trash, but not to weed and harvest the more than 30 kinds of vegetables growing there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This loss of okra, tomatoes and sweet potatoes is more symbolic than anything else — the president and his family are not going to starve for lack of their fall harvest, of course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's another, less obvious effect of the government shutdown on food production. And given all of the hard work that the first lady and her team have put into maintaining the garden, it's a tragedy to see tomatoes rotting on her vines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More serious, of course, is the severe pressure the shutdown is putting on critical government food assistance programs like \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/10/01/shutdown-leaves-program-feeding-women-and-infants-in-lurch/\">WIC\u003c/a>, which feeds pregnant women and mothers of young children, and food stamps and the people who rely on them for basic nutrition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as we enter Week 3 of the shutdown, other food producers are speaking up about how their livelihoods are being threatened by the absence of critical U.S. Department of Agriculture programs and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003cem>Morning Edition's\u003c/em> David Green \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/10/15/234587014/government-shutdown-delays-start-of-crab-season\">reported\u003c/a> Tuesday, Alaskan crabbers and their boats are stuck at the port because they can't get the permits they need to fish. Federal workers who issue those permits are off the job because of the government shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And according to the American Farmland Trust, farmers are struggling to plan for the future without access to crucial information, such as crop reports from the National Agriculture Statistics Service and other federal resources. \"Farmers have to make important business decisions based on educated guesses rather than hard data,\" the group \u003ca href=\"http://www.farmbillfacts.org/farm-policy-roundup-10-11-2013\">notes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government also subsidizes growers of some crops, like corn, when yields are low. And that means another group in limbo are the farmers who aren't sure when they'll be getting their subsidy checks this year. Montana Farmers Union President Alan Merrill \u003ca href=\"http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2013-10-03/rural-farming/government-shutdown-affects-montana-farms-and-ranches/a34830-1?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter\">told\u003c/a> a local news service that farm loans, disaster assistance and conservation program payments all have been put on hold.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nCopyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/72293/among-the-shutdown-victims-the-white-house-kitchen-garden","authors":["byline_bayareabites_72293"],"categories":["bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_2554","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_9530","bayareabites_10921","bayareabites_1959","bayareabites_12558"],"featImg":"bayareabites_72297","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_70091":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_70091","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"70091","score":null,"sort":[1379093299000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"directive-from-the-white-house-drink-more-water","title":"Directive From The White House: Drink More Water","publishDate":1379093299,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_70098\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 624px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/micheleobama-watertown.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/micheleobama-watertown.jpg\" alt=\"First lady Michelle Obama participates in an event at Watertown High School to encourage people to drink more water. Photo: Morry Gash/AP\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70098\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First lady Michelle Obama participates in an event at Watertown High School to encourage people to drink more water. Photo: Morry Gash/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Allison Aubrey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/13/222062826/directive-from-the-white-house-drink-more-water\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (9/13/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, we've done lots of stories about the importance of \u003ca href=\"http://m.npr.org/story/11744838\">drinking water\u003c/a> to stay hydrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's such a simple directive. Does it really need repeating?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, first lady Michelle Obama and the \u003ca href=\"http://ahealthieramerica.org/\">Partnership for a Healthier America\u003c/a> believe it does. And so does the beverage industry, which has seen a flattening out of demand in the U.S. for its traditional, caloric drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a time when many kids get way too many calories from sugary sodas and juices, water's image may need a boost. So it's getting a new logo: Drink Up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_70097\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/michelle-obamadrink-up.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/michelle-obamadrink-up.jpg\" alt=\"The Drink Up logo will appear on bottled water, outdoor taps and reusable bottles. Image: Partnership for a Healthier America \" width=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70097\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Drink Up logo will appear on bottled water, outdoor taps and reusable bottles. Image: Partnership for a Healthier America\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a high school in Watertown, Wis., the first lady said Thursday that drinking a little more H20 is an easy step to improve your health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Drink just one more glass of water a day, and you can make a real difference for your health, your energy and the way you feel,\" the first lady \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/12/first-lady-michelle-obama-ask-everyone-drink-more-water\">said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Partnership for a Healthier America has brought several industry supporters to the new logo and promotion initiative. For instance, Brita will feature the Drink Up logo on packages of its reusable filtering bottles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And many players in the beverage industry are taking part, too. Bottled water is a lucrative and growing business — with $11.3 billion in sales in the U.S. in 2012. And companies such as Nestle, Deer Park and Poland Springs plan to integrate the Drink Up logo on packaging and delivery trucks. They also plan to talk up the message using social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relying on the private sector to sell us water, however, is not everyone's idea of a good way to hydrate. As we \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/12/146692656/battling-the-bottle-students-and-industry-face-off-over-water\">reported\u003c/a> in 2012, more than 20 colleges and universities have complete or partial bans on bottled water because of environmental and health concerns about the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.globaltap.org/\">GlobalTap\u003c/a> is another supporter in the Partnership for a Healthier America initiative. This group is installing a new generation of drinking fountains — or taps, to be more accurate — in public spaces and schools around the world. Instead of leaning over to take a sip, the idea is more of a free filling station for your water bottle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is so impressed by the Drink Up campaign. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cspinet.org/about/\">Michael Jacobson\u003c/a> of the Center for Science in the Public Interest says there's not exactly a hydration crisis that needs solving. He says soda and sugary drinks are one of the biggest promoters of obesity and diabetes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Advocating drinking more actual water and \u003cem>less \u003c/em>sugar water is one of the most important messages that [the first lady's] Let's Move could deliver,\" Jacobson said in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cspinet.org/new/201309121.html\">statement\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"At a time when many kids get too many calories from sugary drinks, water's image may need a boost. 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And so does the beverage industry, which has seen a flattening out of demand in the U.S. for its traditional, caloric drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a time when many kids get way too many calories from sugary sodas and juices, water's image may need a boost. So it's getting a new logo: Drink Up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_70097\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/michelle-obamadrink-up.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/michelle-obamadrink-up.jpg\" alt=\"The Drink Up logo will appear on bottled water, outdoor taps and reusable bottles. Image: Partnership for a Healthier America \" width=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70097\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Drink Up logo will appear on bottled water, outdoor taps and reusable bottles. Image: Partnership for a Healthier America\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a high school in Watertown, Wis., the first lady said Thursday that drinking a little more H20 is an easy step to improve your health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Drink just one more glass of water a day, and you can make a real difference for your health, your energy and the way you feel,\" the first lady \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/12/first-lady-michelle-obama-ask-everyone-drink-more-water\">said\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Partnership for a Healthier America has brought several industry supporters to the new logo and promotion initiative. For instance, Brita will feature the Drink Up logo on packages of its reusable filtering bottles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And many players in the beverage industry are taking part, too. Bottled water is a lucrative and growing business — with $11.3 billion in sales in the U.S. in 2012. And companies such as Nestle, Deer Park and Poland Springs plan to integrate the Drink Up logo on packaging and delivery trucks. They also plan to talk up the message using social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relying on the private sector to sell us water, however, is not everyone's idea of a good way to hydrate. As we \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/12/146692656/battling-the-bottle-students-and-industry-face-off-over-water\">reported\u003c/a> in 2012, more than 20 colleges and universities have complete or partial bans on bottled water because of environmental and health concerns about the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.globaltap.org/\">GlobalTap\u003c/a> is another supporter in the Partnership for a Healthier America initiative. This group is installing a new generation of drinking fountains — or taps, to be more accurate — in public spaces and schools around the world. Instead of leaning over to take a sip, the idea is more of a free filling station for your water bottle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is so impressed by the Drink Up campaign. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cspinet.org/about/\">Michael Jacobson\u003c/a> of the Center for Science in the Public Interest says there's not exactly a hydration crisis that needs solving. He says soda and sugary drinks are one of the biggest promoters of obesity and diabetes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Advocating drinking more actual water and \u003cem>less \u003c/em>sugar water is one of the most important messages that [the first lady's] Let's Move could deliver,\" Jacobson said in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cspinet.org/new/201309121.html\">statement\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/70091/directive-from-the-white-house-drink-more-water","authors":["byline_bayareabites_70091"],"categories":["bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_1246","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_12391","bayareabites_402","bayareabites_12390","bayareabites_9530","bayareabites_8718","bayareabites_12392","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_70098","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_54818":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_54818","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"54818","score":null,"sort":[1358625151000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"inaugural-balls-where-food-isnt-an-afterthought","title":"Inaugural Balls Where Food Isn't An Afterthought","publishDate":1358625151,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_54825\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/texasball-nprfood-e1358625007266.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/01/texasball-nprfood-e1358625007266.jpg\" alt=\"Guests arrive for the Black Tie and Boots Inaugural Ball in Washington back in 2005 to celebrate President Bush's second term. Photo: J. David Ake/AP\" title=\"Guests arrive for the Black Tie and Boots Inaugural Ball in Washington back in 2005 to celebrate President Bush's second term. Photo: J. David Ake/AP\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54825\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests arrive for the Black Tie and Boots Inaugural Ball in Washington back in 2005 to celebrate President Bush's second term. Photo: J. David Ake/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Post by April Fulton\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/01/19/169715735/inaugural-balls-where-food-isnt-an-afterthought\">The Salt, NPR Food\u003c/a> (1/19/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like everyone else in Washington, D.C., right now, we're gearing up for the long inaugural weekend, bracing ourselves for various events and balls around town that can be thrilling, patriotic, touristy and traffic-jamming, all at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while we take issue with the gross \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/fashion/a-list-guide-to-the-inauguration-parties.html\">mischaracterization\u003c/a> of these parties as \"the Oscars for the style-challenged,\" we must admit, the predictable buffets that have characterized the official balls in the past don't really help D.C.'s rep with the glitterati.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naturally, the president will eat well — maybe 3,000 calories \u003ca href=\"http://www.dietsinreview.com/diet_column/01/barack-obamas-3000-calorie-inaugural-lunch-menu/\">too well\u003c/a>, and that's just lunch. (Call it a presidential tradition: Apparently, Abraham Lincoln enjoyed \u003ca href=\"http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Document-Deep-Dive-The-Menu-From-President-Lincolns-Second-Inaugural-Ball-186938191.html\">five courses of meat\u003c/a> after his second inaugural.) But for most of us little people, it's often been long lines for cold food, just for a chance to see POTUS and FLOTUS take an awkward spin onstage for a few minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you go the unofficial ball route, there's bound to be interesting food aplenty. Here are a few exceptions we bet will beat the rubber chicken brigade:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.birchandbarley.com/\">ChurchKey's Inaugural Brewer's Ball\u003c/a>: As you might imagine, this \"ball\" at a hot restaurant in Logan Circle will focus on beer of all kinds, but it will also feature pastries, because executive chef Kyle Bailey and pastry chef Tiffany MacIsaac are hosting. \"Oysters with green apple mignonette, pulled pork on corn grits, house-made charcuterie and cheese\" will be served, says Megan Bailey, director of public relations for the Neighborhood Restaurant Group, which runs ChurchKey. Tickets are $150 for the Monday night event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.ambassadorsinauguralball.com/\">2013 Ambassadors Inaugural Ball\u003c/a> will be held at the Washington Historical Society Monday night, right across from the commander in chief's official ball. \"We wanted to give our guests the feeling of being as close to the action as possible,\" says spokeswoman Trea Day. It's sponsored by the various embassies around town and will nod to the exotic flavors of their various countries through desserts incorporating cayenne, curry and saffron. Plus Biz Markie entertains!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there are the various state society balls, the most famous being Texas' \u003ca href=\"https://netforum.avectra.com/eweb/StartPage.aspx?Site=tss&WebCode=HomePage\">Black Tie & Boots Inaugural Ball\u003c/a>, especially when the Bushes were in town. This year, it's being held on Saturday night in Maryland, at the Gaylord National Resort at National Harbor. Cowboy hats optional, barbecue mandatory. Tickets are $250 for members, $275 for nonmembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what about the \u003ca href=\"http://bwr-bmoa.com/save_the_date/2013gala.html\">Black McDonald's Operators Association Inaugural Ball\u003c/a> at the City Club Monday night? Will they serve the fries that \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/07/13/156725811/an-olympic-sized-outrage-grows-over-french-fry-sales-at-the-games\">almost launched\u003c/a> a boycott by the Brits at the Olympics last summer? We're waiting for a callback about the menu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Got more goods? \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/nprfood\">Tweet us\u003c/a> your favorite food moments of the weekend and stay tuned for our slide show on Tuesday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">National Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Gearing up for inaugural weekend balls often means getting ready to stand in lots of lines for some not-so-awesome food. But if you want to say goodbye to the rubber chicken brigade, these foodcentric inaugural balls might be a better bet.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1358625197,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":514},"headData":{"title":"Inaugural Balls Where Food Isn't An Afterthought | KQED","description":"Gearing up for inaugural weekend balls often means getting ready to stand in lots of lines for some not-so-awesome food. 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Photo: J. David Ake/AP\" title=\"Guests arrive for the Black Tie and Boots Inaugural Ball in Washington back in 2005 to celebrate President Bush's second term. Photo: J. David Ake/AP\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54825\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests arrive for the Black Tie and Boots Inaugural Ball in Washington back in 2005 to celebrate President Bush's second term. Photo: J. David Ake/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Post by April Fulton\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/01/19/169715735/inaugural-balls-where-food-isnt-an-afterthought\">The Salt, NPR Food\u003c/a> (1/19/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like everyone else in Washington, D.C., right now, we're gearing up for the long inaugural weekend, bracing ourselves for various events and balls around town that can be thrilling, patriotic, touristy and traffic-jamming, all at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while we take issue with the gross \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/fashion/a-list-guide-to-the-inauguration-parties.html\">mischaracterization\u003c/a> of these parties as \"the Oscars for the style-challenged,\" we must admit, the predictable buffets that have characterized the official balls in the past don't really help D.C.'s rep with the glitterati.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naturally, the president will eat well — maybe 3,000 calories \u003ca href=\"http://www.dietsinreview.com/diet_column/01/barack-obamas-3000-calorie-inaugural-lunch-menu/\">too well\u003c/a>, and that's just lunch. (Call it a presidential tradition: Apparently, Abraham Lincoln enjoyed \u003ca href=\"http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Document-Deep-Dive-The-Menu-From-President-Lincolns-Second-Inaugural-Ball-186938191.html\">five courses of meat\u003c/a> after his second inaugural.) But for most of us little people, it's often been long lines for cold food, just for a chance to see POTUS and FLOTUS take an awkward spin onstage for a few minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you go the unofficial ball route, there's bound to be interesting food aplenty. Here are a few exceptions we bet will beat the rubber chicken brigade:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.birchandbarley.com/\">ChurchKey's Inaugural Brewer's Ball\u003c/a>: As you might imagine, this \"ball\" at a hot restaurant in Logan Circle will focus on beer of all kinds, but it will also feature pastries, because executive chef Kyle Bailey and pastry chef Tiffany MacIsaac are hosting. \"Oysters with green apple mignonette, pulled pork on corn grits, house-made charcuterie and cheese\" will be served, says Megan Bailey, director of public relations for the Neighborhood Restaurant Group, which runs ChurchKey. Tickets are $150 for the Monday night event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.ambassadorsinauguralball.com/\">2013 Ambassadors Inaugural Ball\u003c/a> will be held at the Washington Historical Society Monday night, right across from the commander in chief's official ball. \"We wanted to give our guests the feeling of being as close to the action as possible,\" says spokeswoman Trea Day. It's sponsored by the various embassies around town and will nod to the exotic flavors of their various countries through desserts incorporating cayenne, curry and saffron. Plus Biz Markie entertains!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there are the various state society balls, the most famous being Texas' \u003ca href=\"https://netforum.avectra.com/eweb/StartPage.aspx?Site=tss&WebCode=HomePage\">Black Tie & Boots Inaugural Ball\u003c/a>, especially when the Bushes were in town. This year, it's being held on Saturday night in Maryland, at the Gaylord National Resort at National Harbor. Cowboy hats optional, barbecue mandatory. Tickets are $250 for members, $275 for nonmembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what about the \u003ca href=\"http://bwr-bmoa.com/save_the_date/2013gala.html\">Black McDonald's Operators Association Inaugural Ball\u003c/a> at the City Club Monday night? Will they serve the fries that \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/07/13/156725811/an-olympic-sized-outrage-grows-over-french-fry-sales-at-the-games\">almost launched\u003c/a> a boycott by the Brits at the Olympics last summer? We're waiting for a callback about the menu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Got more goods? \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/nprfood\">Tweet us\u003c/a> your favorite food moments of the weekend and stay tuned for our slide show on Tuesday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">National Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/54818/inaugural-balls-where-food-isnt-an-afterthought","authors":["byline_bayareabites_54818"],"categories":["bayareabites_50","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_895","bayareabites_644","bayareabites_9530","bayareabites_11063","bayareabites_1743","bayareabites_8718","bayareabites_10921","bayareabites_9401"],"featImg":"bayareabites_54819","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_50989":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_50989","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"50989","score":null,"sort":[1352133057000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"first-lady-cookie-toss-up-part-ii-michelle-obama","title":"First Lady Cookie Toss-Up Part II: Michelle Obama","publishDate":1352133057,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/michelle-obama-john-gurziniski-afp-getty-images560.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/michelle-obama-john-gurziniski-afp-getty-images560.jpg\" alt=\"US First Lady Michelle Obama. Photo: John Gurzinski/AFP/Getty Images \" title=\"US First Lady Michelle Obama. Photo: John Gurzinski/AFP/Getty Images \" width=\"560\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51018\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>US First Lady Michelle Obama. Photo: John Gurzinski/AFP/Getty Images\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Obama's husband may have won The White House, but her citrus and amaretto-laced shortbread lost the Family Circle Bake-Off in 2008 to Cindy McCain's plagiarized Butterscotch Oatmeal cookies. To date, she is the only woman to lose the bake-off yet become first lady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking no chances in 2012, she has greatly toned down her sophisticated tastes and presents us with a subtle twist on a classic recipe:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mama Kaye's White and Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/Michelle-Obama-Cookies.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/Michelle-Obama-Cookies.png\" alt=\"Michelle Obama Chocolate Chip Cookies\" title=\"Michelle Obamas Chocolate Chip Cookies\" width=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50994\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makes 5 dozen\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ingredients:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour\u003cbr>\n1 teaspoon baking soda\u003cbr>\n1 teaspoon salt\u003cbr>\n1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened\u003cbr>\n1 stick Crisco butter-flavored solid vegetable shortening\u003cbr>\n3/4 cup granulated sugar\u003cbr>\n3/4 cup packed brown sugar\u003cbr>\n1 teaspoon vanilla extract\u003cbr>\n2 eggs\u003cbr>\n1 cup each white chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips and mint chocolate chips (or Andes mint pieces)\u003cbr>\n2 cups chopped walnuts\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preparation:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. Heat oven to 375°.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. Whisk together flour, baking soda and salt in a small bowl. In a large bowl with an electric mixer, cream butter, vegetable shortening, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla extract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. On low speed, beat in flour mixture. By hand, stir in white and milk chocolate chips, mint chips and walnuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. Drop rounded tablespoons of dough onto un-greased baking sheets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6. Bake at 375° for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on baking sheets for 5 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Michelle's Cookies Tell Us:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It should be noted that this recipe was not developed by Michelle Obama herself. Rather, it is from her daughters' godmother. Though she emphasizes that she and her husband sit down with their girls every evening \"with good conversation and healthy food,\" she admits that these decadent cookies are a \"splurge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current First Lady is firmly committed to healthy eating-- adhering to organic principles in her \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/07/30/michelle-obamas-toxic-veggie-nightmare-white-house-organic-gar/\" target=\"_blank\">non-organic White House garden\u003c/a>. So why then would she use something as unhealthy as Crisco butter-flavored baking sticks, which contain fully hydrogenated palm oil, mono and diglycerides, and no actual butter? Shortening does have it's benefits in terms of cookie baking (batters spread and brown less readily, for example), but it contains no heath benefits whatsoever. Then again, she explicitly stated that this is a \"splurge.\" Frankly I'd stick to butter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not it was intentional, the inclusion of both white and milk chocolate chips is a touching nod to her husband's heritage. The addition of chocolate mint chips adds a pleasant surprise note of interest. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If one cannot find chocolate mint chips, as I could not, the Andes Creme de Menthe Thins are good tasting, but are filled with more junk that the Crisco butter-flavored sticks. Then there is the labor of unwrapping and chopping the 30 mints it takes to fill one cup, not to mention the garbage left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/Obama-Andes-Wrappers.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/Obama-Andes-Wrappers.png\" alt=\"Obama Andes Wrappers\" title=\"Obama Andes Wrappers\" width=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50998\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Approximate cost of making Michelle Obama's cookies: $16.34\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Michelle Obama's and Ann Romney's cookies could easily be labeled as junk food-- there's nothing very wholesome about either of them. That said, no one eats cookies for health reasons. Cookies are consumed because they typically taste good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it is beyond me why anyone would want to eat the crises of identity known as Mrs. Romney's M&M Cookies. It would be much simpler (and, I think, far more satisfying/healthier) to dump a bag of M&M's in a jar of peanut butter, grab a spoon, and have at it. I would then pay for my sins by consuming 4 1/2 cups of oatmeal, sweeten it with a little bit of Karo syrup for insurance, take a little \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/books/review/michelle-obamas-american-grown-and-more.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">light reading\u003c/a> into the bathroom, and wait for atonement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mrs. Obama's cookies may not be as wholesome as her personal food philosophies, but at least they tasted good. And, unlike Mrs. Romney's, they stay on message. There is no confusion about what her cookies are about. If I had to vote for a cookie that best fit a husband's political persona, my vote would go to Mrs. Obama's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Ultimate Cost:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of you out there may or may not be thinking: \"But Ann Romney's cookies are less expensive to make. If they're anything like her husband's fiscal policies, these cookies must be good for the country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, Ann Romney's $14.60 versus Michelle Obama's $16.34 looks like the better deal, but it isn't. Romney's recipe yields 36 cookies at 41¢ a piece; Obama's recipe yields 60 cookies at 27¢ a piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am no financial genius, as my parents will quickly tell you, but the Romney numbers are misleading. Less spending? Sure. But there are fewer cookies to go around. Obama may spend more at the outset but, ultimately, more people benefit from them being spread around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just think: if Michelle abandons the Crisco habit and uses butter exclusively in her recipe, her cookie largesse would spread even further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PREVIOUSLY:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/11/05/first-lady-cookie-toss-up-ann-romneys-mm-cookies/\">\u003cstrong>ANN ROMNEY'S M&M COOKIES\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Michelle Obama's husband may have won The White House, but her citrus and amaretto-laced shortbread lost the Family Circle Bake-Off in 2008 to Cindy McCain's plagiarized Butterscotch Oatmeal cookies. To date, she is the only woman to lose the bake-off yet become first lady.\r\n\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1352842679,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":891},"headData":{"title":"First Lady Cookie Toss-Up Part II: Michelle Obama | KQED","description":"Michelle Obama's husband may have won The White House, but her citrus and amaretto-laced shortbread lost the Family Circle Bake-Off in 2008 to Cindy McCain's plagiarized Butterscotch Oatmeal cookies. 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To date, she is the only woman to lose the bake-off yet become first lady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking no chances in 2012, she has greatly toned down her sophisticated tastes and presents us with a subtle twist on a classic recipe:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mama Kaye's White and Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/Michelle-Obama-Cookies.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/Michelle-Obama-Cookies.png\" alt=\"Michelle Obama Chocolate Chip Cookies\" title=\"Michelle Obamas Chocolate Chip Cookies\" width=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50994\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makes 5 dozen\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ingredients:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour\u003cbr>\n1 teaspoon baking soda\u003cbr>\n1 teaspoon salt\u003cbr>\n1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened\u003cbr>\n1 stick Crisco butter-flavored solid vegetable shortening\u003cbr>\n3/4 cup granulated sugar\u003cbr>\n3/4 cup packed brown sugar\u003cbr>\n1 teaspoon vanilla extract\u003cbr>\n2 eggs\u003cbr>\n1 cup each white chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips and mint chocolate chips (or Andes mint pieces)\u003cbr>\n2 cups chopped walnuts\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preparation:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. Heat oven to 375°.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. Whisk together flour, baking soda and salt in a small bowl. In a large bowl with an electric mixer, cream butter, vegetable shortening, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla extract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. On low speed, beat in flour mixture. By hand, stir in white and milk chocolate chips, mint chips and walnuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. Drop rounded tablespoons of dough onto un-greased baking sheets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6. Bake at 375° for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on baking sheets for 5 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Michelle's Cookies Tell Us:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It should be noted that this recipe was not developed by Michelle Obama herself. Rather, it is from her daughters' godmother. Though she emphasizes that she and her husband sit down with their girls every evening \"with good conversation and healthy food,\" she admits that these decadent cookies are a \"splurge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current First Lady is firmly committed to healthy eating-- adhering to organic principles in her \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/07/30/michelle-obamas-toxic-veggie-nightmare-white-house-organic-gar/\" target=\"_blank\">non-organic White House garden\u003c/a>. So why then would she use something as unhealthy as Crisco butter-flavored baking sticks, which contain fully hydrogenated palm oil, mono and diglycerides, and no actual butter? Shortening does have it's benefits in terms of cookie baking (batters spread and brown less readily, for example), but it contains no heath benefits whatsoever. Then again, she explicitly stated that this is a \"splurge.\" Frankly I'd stick to butter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not it was intentional, the inclusion of both white and milk chocolate chips is a touching nod to her husband's heritage. The addition of chocolate mint chips adds a pleasant surprise note of interest. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If one cannot find chocolate mint chips, as I could not, the Andes Creme de Menthe Thins are good tasting, but are filled with more junk that the Crisco butter-flavored sticks. Then there is the labor of unwrapping and chopping the 30 mints it takes to fill one cup, not to mention the garbage left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/Obama-Andes-Wrappers.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/Obama-Andes-Wrappers.png\" alt=\"Obama Andes Wrappers\" title=\"Obama Andes Wrappers\" width=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50998\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Approximate cost of making Michelle Obama's cookies: $16.34\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Michelle Obama's and Ann Romney's cookies could easily be labeled as junk food-- there's nothing very wholesome about either of them. That said, no one eats cookies for health reasons. Cookies are consumed because they typically taste good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it is beyond me why anyone would want to eat the crises of identity known as Mrs. Romney's M&M Cookies. It would be much simpler (and, I think, far more satisfying/healthier) to dump a bag of M&M's in a jar of peanut butter, grab a spoon, and have at it. I would then pay for my sins by consuming 4 1/2 cups of oatmeal, sweeten it with a little bit of Karo syrup for insurance, take a little \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/books/review/michelle-obamas-american-grown-and-more.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">light reading\u003c/a> into the bathroom, and wait for atonement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mrs. Obama's cookies may not be as wholesome as her personal food philosophies, but at least they tasted good. And, unlike Mrs. Romney's, they stay on message. There is no confusion about what her cookies are about. If I had to vote for a cookie that best fit a husband's political persona, my vote would go to Mrs. Obama's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Ultimate Cost:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of you out there may or may not be thinking: \"But Ann Romney's cookies are less expensive to make. If they're anything like her husband's fiscal policies, these cookies must be good for the country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, Ann Romney's $14.60 versus Michelle Obama's $16.34 looks like the better deal, but it isn't. Romney's recipe yields 36 cookies at 41¢ a piece; Obama's recipe yields 60 cookies at 27¢ a piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am no financial genius, as my parents will quickly tell you, but the Romney numbers are misleading. Less spending? Sure. But there are fewer cookies to go around. Obama may spend more at the outset but, ultimately, more people benefit from them being spread around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just think: if Michelle abandons the Crisco habit and uses butter exclusively in her recipe, her cookie largesse would spread even further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PREVIOUSLY:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/11/05/first-lady-cookie-toss-up-ann-romneys-mm-cookies/\">\u003cstrong>ANN ROMNEY'S M&M COOKIES\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/50989/first-lady-cookie-toss-up-part-ii-michelle-obama","authors":["5017"],"categories":["bayareabites_1516","bayareabites_752","bayareabites_1653","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_12"],"tags":["bayareabites_10854","bayareabites_10855","bayareabites_10856","bayareabites_644","bayareabites_9530","bayareabites_8718"],"featImg":"bayareabites_51018","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_50962":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_50962","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"50962","score":null,"sort":[1352132729000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"first-lady-cookie-toss-up-ann-romneys-mm-cookies","title":"First Lady Cookie Toss-Up: Ann Romney's M&M Cookies","publishDate":1352132729,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/ann-romney-mark-wilson-getty-images400.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/ann-romney-mark-wilson-getty-images400.jpg\" alt=\"Ann Romney. Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images\" title=\"Ann Romney. Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images\" width=\"400\" height=\"555\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51016\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Ann Romney. Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since Martha Washington became famous for serving up soft foods to her dentally-challenged husband, First Ladies of the United States have sought to bolster their presidential helpmates by virtue of their artistry in the kitchen-- often with limited success: \"Lemonade\" Lucy Hayes' refusal to serve alcohol made her unpopular with non-sober male voters; Edith Wilson's \u003ca href=\"http://edithbollingwilson.org/shop/mrs-wilsons-hoecake-mix/\" target=\"_blank\">hoecakes\u003c/a> are rumored to have sunk \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania\" target=\"_blank\">The Lusitania\u003c/a>; and Dolley Madison's successful line of \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cWJxvvSHbA\" target=\"_blank\">cream-filled pastries\u003c/a> supplied her husband's detractors with 200 years worth of political zingers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to these women, the position of White House chef became one of ever-increasing power and importance. First ladies were now free to support their husbands in other ways. For example, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan might never have been president if their wives were kept in the kitchen rather than by their sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A surge of interest in the baking habits of First Ladies-- both incumbent and aspiring-- occurred in 1992 when Hillary Clinton mentioned that she chose to pursue her own career after her husband was elected Governor of Arkansas rather than \"stay home and bake cookies.\" Every election year since, Family Circle magazine has presented a First Lady cookie bake-off-- a depressingly old-fashioned, sexist, yet remarkably accurate bellwether of the real presidential contest.\u003cstrong>*\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is interesting about this contest is not so much about how good these cookies are (or aren't), but rather, what each recipe says about the woman who submitted it. And, by extension, her husband's political philosophies. Do these treats adhere to their respective party platforms? The only way to find out is to bake them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/Romney-Cookies1.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/Romney-Cookies1.png\" alt=\"Romneys M&M Cookies\" title=\"Romneys M&M Cookies\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50968\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>First up:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ann Romney's M&M's Cookies\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makes 3 dozen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ingredients:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 cup granulated sugar\u003cbr>\n1 cup packed light brown sugar\u003cbr>\n1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened\u003cbr>\n1 1/2 cups crunchy peanut butter\u003cbr>\n1 tablespoon light corn syrup (such as Karo)\u003cbr>\n3 eggs\u003cbr>\n1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract\u003cbr>\n4 1/2 cups rolled oats\u003cbr>\n2 teaspoons baking soda\u003cbr>\n6 ounces chocolate chips\u003cbr>\n2/3 cups M&M's candies\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preparation:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. Heat oven to 325 degrees F. In a large bowl, cream sugars, butter, peanut butter and corn syrup on high speed until well combined. Beat in eggs 1 at a time. Beat in vanilla extract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. In a separate bowl, mix together oats and baking soda. Stir into peanut butter mixture until combined. Mix in chocolate chips and M&M's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. Using a standard-size ice cream scoop, drop dough onto baking sheets (about 9 per sheet). Bake at 325 degrees F for 18 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool 2 minutes, then transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> What Ann's Cookies Tell Us\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a self-proclaimed \"avid baker,\" it's little wonder that her husband frowns upon any woman who would dare serve store-bought cookies rather than stay at home and make her own:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/X1QuRppcOgQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A passionate horsewoman, it isn't surprising that Ann Romney would have plenty of oats on hand. The fact that she would include 4 1/2 cups of them is entirely in keeping with her public persona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politically speaking, this is truly a Romney-style cookie. It simply cannot take a firm position on anything. Is it a peanut butter cookie? Chocolate chip? Oatmeal? It tries to be all things to all people, but in the end, it tastes like none of the above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though it's an interesting cookie to behold-- garish bits of blue, green, and red M&M's peeking out of a bumpy oatmeal lunar surface-- it is heavy both in the hand and on the tongue. A little of this cookie goes a very long way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you find that you have consumed too much Romney in cookie form, be comforted by the knowledge that, as an excellent source of fiber, oats act as \"nature's broom\"-- these cookies won't be staying with you long. For added insurance, Mrs. Romney has included Karo syrup, which has osmotic properties and was once popular as a home remedy for infant constipation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The approximate total cost of making Ann Romney's creation: $14.60\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NEXT UP: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/11/05/first-lady-cookie-toss-up-part-ii-michelle-obama/\">MICHELLE OBAMA'S CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>*\u003c/strong>The only woman to win the cookie bake-off and lose The White House was Cindy McCain, whose Butterscotch Oatmeal Cookies beat out Michelle Obama's Citrus and Amaretto-laced Shortbread. It should be noted that McCain has been accused of stealing the recipe directly from Hershey's website.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"What is interesting about this contest is not so much about how good these cookies are (or aren't), but rather, what each recipe says about the woman who submitted it. And, by extension, her husband's political philosophies. Do these treats adhere to their respective party platforms? The only way to find out is to bake them.\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1352136672,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["http://www.youtube.com/embed/X1QuRppcOgQ"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":772},"headData":{"title":"First Lady Cookie Toss-Up: Ann Romney's M&M Cookies | KQED","description":"What is interesting about this contest is not so much about how good these cookies are (or aren't), but rather, what each recipe says about the woman who submitted it. And, by extension, her husband's political philosophies. Do these treats adhere to their respective party platforms? The only way to find out is to bake them.\r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"50962 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=50962","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/11/05/first-lady-cookie-toss-up-ann-romneys-mm-cookies/","disqusTitle":"First Lady Cookie Toss-Up: Ann Romney's M&M Cookies","path":"/bayareabites/50962/first-lady-cookie-toss-up-ann-romneys-mm-cookies","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/ann-romney-mark-wilson-getty-images400.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/ann-romney-mark-wilson-getty-images400.jpg\" alt=\"Ann Romney. Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images\" title=\"Ann Romney. Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images\" width=\"400\" height=\"555\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51016\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Ann Romney. Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since Martha Washington became famous for serving up soft foods to her dentally-challenged husband, First Ladies of the United States have sought to bolster their presidential helpmates by virtue of their artistry in the kitchen-- often with limited success: \"Lemonade\" Lucy Hayes' refusal to serve alcohol made her unpopular with non-sober male voters; Edith Wilson's \u003ca href=\"http://edithbollingwilson.org/shop/mrs-wilsons-hoecake-mix/\" target=\"_blank\">hoecakes\u003c/a> are rumored to have sunk \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania\" target=\"_blank\">The Lusitania\u003c/a>; and Dolley Madison's successful line of \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cWJxvvSHbA\" target=\"_blank\">cream-filled pastries\u003c/a> supplied her husband's detractors with 200 years worth of political zingers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to these women, the position of White House chef became one of ever-increasing power and importance. First ladies were now free to support their husbands in other ways. For example, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan might never have been president if their wives were kept in the kitchen rather than by their sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A surge of interest in the baking habits of First Ladies-- both incumbent and aspiring-- occurred in 1992 when Hillary Clinton mentioned that she chose to pursue her own career after her husband was elected Governor of Arkansas rather than \"stay home and bake cookies.\" Every election year since, Family Circle magazine has presented a First Lady cookie bake-off-- a depressingly old-fashioned, sexist, yet remarkably accurate bellwether of the real presidential contest.\u003cstrong>*\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is interesting about this contest is not so much about how good these cookies are (or aren't), but rather, what each recipe says about the woman who submitted it. And, by extension, her husband's political philosophies. Do these treats adhere to their respective party platforms? The only way to find out is to bake them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/Romney-Cookies1.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/Romney-Cookies1.png\" alt=\"Romneys M&M Cookies\" title=\"Romneys M&M Cookies\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50968\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>First up:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ann Romney's M&M's Cookies\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makes 3 dozen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ingredients:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 cup granulated sugar\u003cbr>\n1 cup packed light brown sugar\u003cbr>\n1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened\u003cbr>\n1 1/2 cups crunchy peanut butter\u003cbr>\n1 tablespoon light corn syrup (such as Karo)\u003cbr>\n3 eggs\u003cbr>\n1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract\u003cbr>\n4 1/2 cups rolled oats\u003cbr>\n2 teaspoons baking soda\u003cbr>\n6 ounces chocolate chips\u003cbr>\n2/3 cups M&M's candies\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preparation:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. Heat oven to 325 degrees F. In a large bowl, cream sugars, butter, peanut butter and corn syrup on high speed until well combined. Beat in eggs 1 at a time. Beat in vanilla extract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. In a separate bowl, mix together oats and baking soda. Stir into peanut butter mixture until combined. Mix in chocolate chips and M&M's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. Using a standard-size ice cream scoop, drop dough onto baking sheets (about 9 per sheet). Bake at 325 degrees F for 18 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool 2 minutes, then transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> What Ann's Cookies Tell Us\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a self-proclaimed \"avid baker,\" it's little wonder that her husband frowns upon any woman who would dare serve store-bought cookies rather than stay at home and make her own:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/X1QuRppcOgQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A passionate horsewoman, it isn't surprising that Ann Romney would have plenty of oats on hand. The fact that she would include 4 1/2 cups of them is entirely in keeping with her public persona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Politically speaking, this is truly a Romney-style cookie. It simply cannot take a firm position on anything. Is it a peanut butter cookie? Chocolate chip? Oatmeal? It tries to be all things to all people, but in the end, it tastes like none of the above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though it's an interesting cookie to behold-- garish bits of blue, green, and red M&M's peeking out of a bumpy oatmeal lunar surface-- it is heavy both in the hand and on the tongue. A little of this cookie goes a very long way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you find that you have consumed too much Romney in cookie form, be comforted by the knowledge that, as an excellent source of fiber, oats act as \"nature's broom\"-- these cookies won't be staying with you long. For added insurance, Mrs. Romney has included Karo syrup, which has osmotic properties and was once popular as a home remedy for infant constipation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The approximate total cost of making Ann Romney's creation: $14.60\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>NEXT UP: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/11/05/first-lady-cookie-toss-up-part-ii-michelle-obama/\">MICHELLE OBAMA'S CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>*\u003c/strong>The only woman to win the cookie bake-off and lose The White House was Cindy McCain, whose Butterscotch Oatmeal Cookies beat out Michelle Obama's Citrus and Amaretto-laced Shortbread. It should be noted that McCain has been accused of stealing the recipe directly from Hershey's website.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/50962/first-lady-cookie-toss-up-ann-romneys-mm-cookies","authors":["5017"],"categories":["bayareabites_1516","bayareabites_752","bayareabites_1653","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_12"],"tags":["bayareabites_10854","bayareabites_10855","bayareabites_10856","bayareabites_644","bayareabites_9530","bayareabites_8718"],"featImg":"bayareabites_51016","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_30498":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_30498","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"30498","score":null,"sort":[1311204549000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"peoples-community-market-closer-to-finding-funding-with-white-house-announcement","title":"People's Community Market Closer to Finding Funding with White House Announcement","publishDate":1311204549,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/PeoplesGrocery.org#!/PeoplesGrocery.org\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/07/peoplesgrocerystaff500.jpg\" alt=\"The Peoples Grocery Staff. Photo: Asual Aswad\" title=\"The Peoples Grocery Staff. Photo: Asual Aswad\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30541\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>The People's Grocery Staff. Photo: Asual Aswad\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A full-service grocery store may finally come to the people of West Oakland. It looks like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.peoplescommunitymarket.com/\">People's Community Market\u003c/a>, a long-anticipated mid-size retailer in West Oakland, may be a step closer to raising the capital it needs to break ground with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/07/20/remarks-first-lady-event-access-healthy-affordable-food\">announcement today by First Lady Michelle Obama\u003c/a> about a new food financing initiative designed to increase access to healthy, affordable food in underserved communities in this state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the local take away from a White House press conference Wednesday, where FLOTUS announced that \u003ca href=\"http://tcenews.calendow.org/pr/tce/introducing-the-california-freshworks-210802.aspx\">The California FreshWorks Fund\u003c/a>, a $200 million public-private partnership loan fund and a project of \u003ca href=\"http://www.calendow.org/\">The California Endowment\u003c/a>, will help bring healthy grocers to food deserts or areas that lack a grocery store. The endowment, a private statewide health foundation established to expand access to affordable, quality health care for communities in need, has been joined by prominent investors on the project, including NCB FSB, Kaiser Permanente, and JP Morgan Chase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of the fund is to provide loans at or below market rates to encourage new stores in Californian food deserts and it is expected to create or retain some 6000 jobs in the state. \u003ca href=\"http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/2011/07/first-lady-to-announce-project-to.html\">The First Lady\u003c/a> also announced commitments from large chain retailers, including Walgreens and Walmart, to open or expand 1,500 stores in food deserts around the country. According to U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates, 23.5 million Americans-- including 6.5 million children--live in low-income neigborhoods that lack stores likely to sell affordable and nutritious foods. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The FreshWorks funding is so applicable to what we do and it's a real acknowledgement of the work we've done for nine years in the community to be invited to this event,\" said \u003ca href=\"http://www.peoplesgrocery.org/\">People's Grocery\u003c/a> executive director \u003ca href=\"http://civileats.com/2010/04/05/profiling-women-changing-the-way-we-eat-%E2%80%93-nikki-henderson/\">Nikki Henderson\u003c/a>, who was summoned to the White House for the announcement. Since 2002, People's Grocery has provided food education, training, and access to residents of West Oakland, including cooking classes, nutrition programs, urban agriculture instruction, a mobile grocery truck and a CSA delivery dubbed the \"Grub Box.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loans will be available to food retailers of all sizes and types. That includes independent stores such as People's Community Market, which is in talks with investors to raise $3 million, said \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodandsocietyfellows.org/about/fellow/brahm-ahmadi\">Brahm Ahmadi\u003c/a>, People's Grocery founder and the CEO of the People's Community Market, which was spun off from the group's educational arm last year. Current plans call for a 12,000-square-foot full-service, environmentally-friendly retail space serving low-income residents in an abandoned 1950s-era shopping center at the corner of West Grand and Market Street. West Oakland, which has some 30,000 residents has no full-service grocery. By comparison, the affluent Oakland enclave of Rockridge has one such store for every 4,333 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/fooddesert/fooddesert.html\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/07/food-desert-locator.jpg\" alt=\"Food Desert Locator - Alameda county\" title=\"Food Desert Locator - Alameda county\" width=\"500\" height=\"397\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30538\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson and Ahmadi are confident of securing significant assistance from the new initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> \"FreshWorks is a good fit for our nonprofit, community-based model,\" added Henderson. \"It's not enough to just locate a grocery store in an under-served community -- you have to engage people in a deep way about how to have a healthy community and that's what we do. This kind of funding can go a long way to solving both food access and food insecurity issues, which are not the same thing.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The organizations are well known to The California Endowment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> \"We're very familiar with their operations and programs and the great work they do in their community,\" said Tina Castro, director of mission related investment for the endowment. \"While they still need to go through the application process like everyone else this is just the kind of creative, innovative business approach we want to support.\" \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Castro added that the Bay Area is a hot bed of ideas and activities to address food access issues and that other local organizations are also applying to FreshWorks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eliminating food deserts from the U.S. landscape in seven years is a major goal of the First Lady's \u003ca href=\"http://www.letsmove.gov/\">Let's Move!\u003c/a> campaign, which began after the \u003ca href=\"http://www.letsmove.gov/white-house-task-force-childhood-obesity-report-president\">White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity\u003c/a> identified improving access to healthy, affordable foods as one of the keys to ending childhood obesity within a generation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"500\" height=\"314\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/8My-iWjTBQ8\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mrs. Obama's announcement closely follows widespread \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/17/health/la-he-food-deserts-20110712\">coverage of a large study on food deserts\u003c/a> and food access published last week in the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/171/13/1162\">Archives of Internal Medicine\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. In the study of three cities, including Oakland, researchers collected data on the grocery shopping habits of more than 5,000 people for 15 years and concluded that greater supermarket availability wasn't generally related to the quality of dietary intake or the consumption of fruits and vegetables. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Henderson, food access and food security advocates, and even the senior author of the study have explained, plopping a supermarket or two in a neighborhood that has long gone without isn't going to change residents' eating habits overnight. Education, encouragement, outreach, and training are all vital to help people raised on a fast food or junk food diet make the switch to more healthful eating, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, it's tough to compete with fast-food joints, corner stores, and gas stations that peddle cheap fried food, sodas, and highly-processed sweets and snacks. But Ahmadi points out there's a misperception around demand for healthy food in historically overlooked urban areas. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"People who aren't familiar with West Oakland or its residents assume that people here aren't interested in eating good quality food,\" he said. \"They think these residents just want to eat junk. But what we see and hear is that people do want healthy, affordable food choices like people have in middle-class or suburban communities. Just because there's a lack of fresh food doesn't mean there isn't demand.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>While small, health-oriented stores are beginning to find homes in West Oakland, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.mandelafoods.com/\">Mandela Foods Cooperative\u003c/a>, an \u003ca href=\"http://lettuceeatkale.com/2011/james-berk-of-mandela-foods-brings-produce-to-his-people/\">owner-worker grocery\u003c/a>, and the recently opened \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/produce-pro-oakland\">Produce Pro\u003c/a>, there remains a thirst for more than one mid-size retailer to set up shop in the area before it can shake off its food desert designation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today's announcement may mean that West Oakland will feel a little less parched in the near future.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cstrong>Related Story from KQED News:\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201107210805/c\">New Fund to Help Merchants Sell Healthy Food\u003c/a> -- Brahm Ahmadi interviewed\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cobject width=\"335\" height=\"85\">\u003cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/RN201107210805c.xml\">\u003cembed src=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"335\" height=\"85\" flashvars=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/RN201107210805c.xml\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> [audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2011/07/21/2011-07-21-08-05c-RDnews.mp3\"] \u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A full-service grocery store may finally come to the people of West Oakland. Learn more about an announcement today by First Lady Michelle Obama on a new food financing initiative designed to increase access to healthy, affordable food in underserved communities in California.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1364867640,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["http://www.youtube.com/embed/8My-iWjTBQ8"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1093},"headData":{"title":"People's Community Market Closer to Finding Funding with White House Announcement | KQED","description":"A full-service grocery store may finally come to the people of West Oakland. Learn more about an announcement today by First Lady Michelle Obama on a new food financing initiative designed to increase access to healthy, affordable food in underserved communities in California.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"30498 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=30498","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2011/07/20/peoples-community-market-closer-to-finding-funding-with-white-house-announcement/","disqusTitle":"People's Community Market Closer to Finding Funding with White House Announcement","path":"/bayareabites/30498/peoples-community-market-closer-to-finding-funding-with-white-house-announcement","audioUrl":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2011/07/21/2011-07-21-08-05c-RDnews.mp3","audioDuration":null,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/PeoplesGrocery.org#!/PeoplesGrocery.org\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/07/peoplesgrocerystaff500.jpg\" alt=\"The Peoples Grocery Staff. Photo: Asual Aswad\" title=\"The Peoples Grocery Staff. Photo: Asual Aswad\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30541\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>The People's Grocery Staff. Photo: Asual Aswad\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A full-service grocery store may finally come to the people of West Oakland. It looks like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.peoplescommunitymarket.com/\">People's Community Market\u003c/a>, a long-anticipated mid-size retailer in West Oakland, may be a step closer to raising the capital it needs to break ground with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/07/20/remarks-first-lady-event-access-healthy-affordable-food\">announcement today by First Lady Michelle Obama\u003c/a> about a new food financing initiative designed to increase access to healthy, affordable food in underserved communities in this state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the local take away from a White House press conference Wednesday, where FLOTUS announced that \u003ca href=\"http://tcenews.calendow.org/pr/tce/introducing-the-california-freshworks-210802.aspx\">The California FreshWorks Fund\u003c/a>, a $200 million public-private partnership loan fund and a project of \u003ca href=\"http://www.calendow.org/\">The California Endowment\u003c/a>, will help bring healthy grocers to food deserts or areas that lack a grocery store. The endowment, a private statewide health foundation established to expand access to affordable, quality health care for communities in need, has been joined by prominent investors on the project, including NCB FSB, Kaiser Permanente, and JP Morgan Chase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of the fund is to provide loans at or below market rates to encourage new stores in Californian food deserts and it is expected to create or retain some 6000 jobs in the state. \u003ca href=\"http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/2011/07/first-lady-to-announce-project-to.html\">The First Lady\u003c/a> also announced commitments from large chain retailers, including Walgreens and Walmart, to open or expand 1,500 stores in food deserts around the country. According to U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates, 23.5 million Americans-- including 6.5 million children--live in low-income neigborhoods that lack stores likely to sell affordable and nutritious foods. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The FreshWorks funding is so applicable to what we do and it's a real acknowledgement of the work we've done for nine years in the community to be invited to this event,\" said \u003ca href=\"http://www.peoplesgrocery.org/\">People's Grocery\u003c/a> executive director \u003ca href=\"http://civileats.com/2010/04/05/profiling-women-changing-the-way-we-eat-%E2%80%93-nikki-henderson/\">Nikki Henderson\u003c/a>, who was summoned to the White House for the announcement. Since 2002, People's Grocery has provided food education, training, and access to residents of West Oakland, including cooking classes, nutrition programs, urban agriculture instruction, a mobile grocery truck and a CSA delivery dubbed the \"Grub Box.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loans will be available to food retailers of all sizes and types. That includes independent stores such as People's Community Market, which is in talks with investors to raise $3 million, said \u003ca href=\"http://www.foodandsocietyfellows.org/about/fellow/brahm-ahmadi\">Brahm Ahmadi\u003c/a>, People's Grocery founder and the CEO of the People's Community Market, which was spun off from the group's educational arm last year. Current plans call for a 12,000-square-foot full-service, environmentally-friendly retail space serving low-income residents in an abandoned 1950s-era shopping center at the corner of West Grand and Market Street. West Oakland, which has some 30,000 residents has no full-service grocery. By comparison, the affluent Oakland enclave of Rockridge has one such store for every 4,333 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/fooddesert/fooddesert.html\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/07/food-desert-locator.jpg\" alt=\"Food Desert Locator - Alameda county\" title=\"Food Desert Locator - Alameda county\" width=\"500\" height=\"397\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30538\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson and Ahmadi are confident of securing significant assistance from the new initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> \"FreshWorks is a good fit for our nonprofit, community-based model,\" added Henderson. \"It's not enough to just locate a grocery store in an under-served community -- you have to engage people in a deep way about how to have a healthy community and that's what we do. This kind of funding can go a long way to solving both food access and food insecurity issues, which are not the same thing.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The organizations are well known to The California Endowment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp> \"We're very familiar with their operations and programs and the great work they do in their community,\" said Tina Castro, director of mission related investment for the endowment. \"While they still need to go through the application process like everyone else this is just the kind of creative, innovative business approach we want to support.\" \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Castro added that the Bay Area is a hot bed of ideas and activities to address food access issues and that other local organizations are also applying to FreshWorks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eliminating food deserts from the U.S. landscape in seven years is a major goal of the First Lady's \u003ca href=\"http://www.letsmove.gov/\">Let's Move!\u003c/a> campaign, which began after the \u003ca href=\"http://www.letsmove.gov/white-house-task-force-childhood-obesity-report-president\">White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity\u003c/a> identified improving access to healthy, affordable foods as one of the keys to ending childhood obesity within a generation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"500\" height=\"314\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/8My-iWjTBQ8\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mrs. Obama's announcement closely follows widespread \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/17/health/la-he-food-deserts-20110712\">coverage of a large study on food deserts\u003c/a> and food access published last week in the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/171/13/1162\">Archives of Internal Medicine\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. In the study of three cities, including Oakland, researchers collected data on the grocery shopping habits of more than 5,000 people for 15 years and concluded that greater supermarket availability wasn't generally related to the quality of dietary intake or the consumption of fruits and vegetables. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Henderson, food access and food security advocates, and even the senior author of the study have explained, plopping a supermarket or two in a neighborhood that has long gone without isn't going to change residents' eating habits overnight. Education, encouragement, outreach, and training are all vital to help people raised on a fast food or junk food diet make the switch to more healthful eating, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, it's tough to compete with fast-food joints, corner stores, and gas stations that peddle cheap fried food, sodas, and highly-processed sweets and snacks. But Ahmadi points out there's a misperception around demand for healthy food in historically overlooked urban areas. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"People who aren't familiar with West Oakland or its residents assume that people here aren't interested in eating good quality food,\" he said. \"They think these residents just want to eat junk. But what we see and hear is that people do want healthy, affordable food choices like people have in middle-class or suburban communities. Just because there's a lack of fresh food doesn't mean there isn't demand.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>While small, health-oriented stores are beginning to find homes in West Oakland, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.mandelafoods.com/\">Mandela Foods Cooperative\u003c/a>, an \u003ca href=\"http://lettuceeatkale.com/2011/james-berk-of-mandela-foods-brings-produce-to-his-people/\">owner-worker grocery\u003c/a>, and the recently opened \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/produce-pro-oakland\">Produce Pro\u003c/a>, there remains a thirst for more than one mid-size retailer to set up shop in the area before it can shake off its food desert designation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today's announcement may mean that West Oakland will feel a little less parched in the near future.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cstrong>Related Story from KQED News:\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201107210805/c\">New Fund to Help Merchants Sell Healthy Food\u003c/a> -- Brahm Ahmadi interviewed\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cobject width=\"335\" height=\"85\">\u003cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/RN201107210805c.xml\">\u003cembed src=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"335\" height=\"85\" flashvars=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/RN201107210805c.xml\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2011/07/21/2011-07-21-08-05c-RDnews.mp3","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/30498/peoples-community-market-closer-to-finding-funding-with-white-house-announcement","authors":["5125"],"categories":["bayareabites_109","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_1875","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_9530","bayareabites_9531","bayareabites_9098","bayareabites_14757","bayareabites_9532","bayareabites_9097"],"featImg":"bayareabites_30541","label":"bayareabites"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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