Kids & Food
Stories and discussions about about the feeding and food education of children, including kid and family-friendly recipes. We include:
* Featured articles that may or may not include one of our recipes
* Tidbits and relevant newsbits
Snack Bars without the Arsenic: A Recipe
On February 12, 2012, Environmental Health Perspectives published results of a study that found arsenic – a toxin that can increase the risk of cancer - in organic cereal bars and baby formula. Of the 17 baby formulas tested, 2 were found to have arsenic levels between 20 and 30 times that of other baby [...]
Hitchiker’s Guide to Getting Stopped by Homeland Security: The Epic New Hampshire Story Part II
The Sol Food Mobile Farm, which will be hitting the road across the U.S. in June 2012 will be conducting square foot gardening workshops, composting workshops, and Zomppa’s Healthy Eating & Global Curriculum classes. This talented group of young people will be updating you on their adventures to get the bus to you. To support [...]
Crazy Boston Drivers & Electrical Fires: The Epic New Hampshire Story Part I
The Sol Food Mobile Farm, which will be hitting the road across the U.S. in June 2012 will be conducting square foot gardening workshops, composting workshops, and Zomppa’s Healthy Eating & Global Curriculum classes. This talented group of young people will be updating you on their adventures to get the bus to you. To support [...]
Sol Food Mobile Farm & Zomppa FAQ
Zomppa is pleased and proud to support the Sol Food Mobile Farm, a NC-based nonprofit that promotes and teaches about community gardening, environmental sustainability, and healthy habits on a waste-oil-run converted school bus. Sol Food Mobile Farm on Vimeo. Mission The mission of Sol Food Mobile Farm (SFMF) starts with advocating for local foods and [...]
Zomppa’s Global Potluck: Zomppabus in the Classroom
The day that I thought I would “teach” my nine year old French students to make the galette des rois, I got schooled. We had just begun our English cooking vocabulary after having decided that the best way to learn these verbs was to focus less on talking, and more on doing. So we did; [...]
All in Good Taste
A headline on Salon.com asking, “Why is Georgia shaming fat children?” caught my eye this past week. The corresponding article reacted to a public health advertising campaign recently launched by the Strong4Life project. The group’s ads starkly highlight the individual plights of several obese children who are ashamed of their weight. Near the end of [...]
Welcome to Neda’s ABCs!
Come over to the Zomppabus for a big welcome to Neda’s ABCs! Welcome to Neda’s ABCs from Zomppa on Vimeo.
The 5% Diet: A Variation on a Dal Recipe
Recently, my husband and I watched the documentary, Forks over Knives, a film that details the claims and groundbreaking research conducted by Dr. Colin Campbell in his book, The China Study. According to Dr. Campbell (nutritional scientist at Cornell University) and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn (a top surgeon and head of the Breast Cancer Task Force [...]
FreshFarm Markets: Food Fighters
The Food Fighters series is made up of M@M’s journeys across the U.S., and her home city of Washington, D.C., where she is visiting as many organizations that work on issues related to food equity and justice as she possibly can. She is seeking to examine places that focus on production of food, distribution of product and [...]
Peanut-Free Zones: Mini Country House Omelets
Growing up, I hated eating peanut butter. The flavorless, yet excessively oily paste was served to my sister and me practically every day for lunch. Normally, the PB was smothered in between two flimsy white pieces of bread and stuffed into a crinkly (previously used) brown paper bag sack alongside an over ripe banana, a [...]
