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Point of origin stories bring food authenticity to campus dining

Across the country, campus dining programs are helping students gain knowledge about where their food comes from.

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What a few chefs really think about Black History Month menus

Last month, I suggested that it might be time to put an end to the special dinners that many institutions stage to celebrate Black History Month.

Chef Kyle Williams has taken the Live Blue Kitchen and Café at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City to a new level, creating healthy, gourmet options for employees.

In October 2014, an Aramark employee instructed kitchen workers to serve food that had been thrown into the trash to fellow inmates. The Michigan Department of Corrections says Aramark fired the employee.

Chefs at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., faced off March 25 in the first Fruit & Vegetable Recipe Contest.

After outrage from its members, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics will end its partnership with Kraft, through which the academy’s ‘Kids Eat Right’ label appeared on the cheese product.

Democrats are proposing to expand the federal school lunch program to weekends and holidays, creating a full-time nutrition program.

A mother urges the district to ban peanuts after her daughter had a severe allergic reaction at school. Currently, the district has peanut-free lunch tables and classrooms.

A school district lost its foodservice hub when a high school kitchen and cafeteria went up in flames. The kitchen contained all the commodities for the high school, seven elementary schools, the Albany Boys and Girls Club and community after school programs.

UCSC recruited Chef Jet Tila to help set a Guinness World Record for longest granola bar, measuring 420 feet and containing nearly 250 pounds of ingredients.

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