talbotlucas.org: a word to the wise is sufficient

In this Sunday's New York Times Magazine, an article about the impact--and potential--of Alice Waters' programs and proposals for changing the way food is presented in our school. Read it here (in .pdf form) or link to the Times.

For more information on The Edible Schoolyard program, visit their site. I encourage you to pay special attention to Waters' message.

Also of interest...Food Politics by Marion Nestle. An interesting intersection between my interest in food politics and my current Administrative Law class. You may have had no problem grasping the idea that agribusiness plays a big role in determining the availability of certain foods, but Nestle's book investigates how the FDA and other agencies are swayed by corporate concerns, putting shareholder interests far above the interests of consumers (and, some might say, above their statutory mandates). An excerpt from the introduction is available here, courtesy of the University of California Press.

Given the amount of class reading and other work I should probably wait to sink into Food Politics once the semester is over...