A local student's guardian has filed a lawsuit on a teen's behalf against the Los Angeles Unified School District, after the teen bit into her cafeteria burrito and got a big metal mouthful of thermometer. more ›

Today the USDA implemented new nutritional standards for school lunches, including allowing the two tablespoons of tomato paste on frozen pizza to count as a serving of vegetables. Yep, according to our government, pizza is a vegetable. more ›

Nearly a year after chef and activist Jamie Oliver visited LA and our schools' lunchrooms none other than Rush Limbaugh weighs in on our kids and their eating habits at LAUSD. Sounding more like Jonathan Swift sans irony, Limbaugh has responded on air to this weekend's LA Times piece on the new menu fail at the country's second largest school district. more ›

When the Los Angeles Unified School District's dairy contract expires on June 30, superintendent John Deasy plans to recommend spilling flavored milk -- chocolate and strawberry -- off the menus of 650,000 meals served daily by LAUSD. Currently, 60% of the milk consumed by L.A. Unified students is flavored, according to the LA Times. more ›

This morning the Los Angeles Unified School District put on a Food Service Division dog and pony show intended as an obvious response to the criticisms levied against them in last night's Season Two Premiere of the Emmy-award winning "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution." Major television press outlets, English and Spanish speaking, were invited to attend. LA's number one blog? Well, we weren't allowed to go. more ›

Next Tuesday marks the first episode of Season 2 of British chef Jamie Oliver's ABC show "Food Revolution," in which he attempts to introduce healthy eating to the United States, one obese city at a time. Season 2 is -- you guessed it! -- set here in Los Angeles. The LA Times reports that Oliver started off the season by butting heads with outgoing LAUSD superintendent Ramon Cortines. more ›

For anyone who has seen the critically-acclaimed documentary Food Inc., the faces of Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan are undoubtedly familiar. In a rare joint appearance, the two authors were joined Wednesday at USC’s Bovard Auditorium by Chef Evan Kleiman in a candid conversation about the current state of our industrialized food system. more ›

Chef and food revolutionary Jamie Oliver has had his filming permit revoked for shooting segments of his ABC reality show "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution" at the Los Angeles Unified School District's charter West Adams Prep, reports the LA Times. Oliver made his way into West Adams after being initially categorically denied access to the LAUSD last year. more ›

The Los Angeles Unified School District has flat out rejected the offer of Chef Jamie Oliver's reality television school nutrition makeover show Food Revolution to help them transform their lunches into good food that is good for the students, according to the LA Times. "Our feeling was that his time would be better spent or invested in other communities," said a representative from the Superintendent's office yesterday. more ›

The Irvine City Council has approved a lease with a local farmer that will see to it 114 acres of Great Park be developed as an urban community farm. This is the first time farming will be taking place on the land that is Great Park since wealthy rancher James Irvine sold the land he used to farm lima beans to the US Government for them to use as the Marine Corps Air Station at El Toro. more ›

It's Time for Lunch...what's on our kids' plates? Tater tots, pudding cups and mystery meat often find a home on kids' cafeteria trays, but that doesn't have to be the case. This fall, the Child Nutrition act, which leaves schools only $1 to spend on each child’s meal after labor, equipment and overhead costs, is up for re-authorization by Congress. In order to promote awareness of the need to change food policy for school-age children, Slow Food L.A. and Whole Foods are behind 6 "Eat-in" events in Los Angeles community gardens this Labor Day. more ›

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