Contacts for Food Sources

This keeps coming up and we really need to get on it before we can do any financials work...

Contact Info for Location Alternatives

So incase the Exhibition Kitchen is not a realistic location for our classes, I'm reaching out to other possible locations.  Below is a list of locations with contact info and a current status.
*updates in blue

Restaurants don't like it when you call during lunch :)

So today, I called 5 area hotel restaurants: (1) Mooo... Restaurant at the XV Beacon Hotel, (2) Jer-Ne (pronounced journey) at the Ritz-Carlton Boston Common, (3) Asana at the Mandarin Oriental Boston, (4) The Bristol Lounge at the Four Seasons, and (4) The Dining Room at the Taj-Boston.

Food Project

Spoke with Max from Food Project:

Kim Szeto- Boston Public School, Farm school coordinator, may or may not be at
food and nutrition services dept still, but that would be a good place to start to find her. She used to work for food project and worked on feasibility study for nutrition improvement in BPS, and at one point worked directly with BPS on their food progams. Feasibility project results were promising, but BPS said they didn’t want to implement it so food project was SOL (sit outta luck)

Solutions Across the Country

As we continue to conduct research and fieldwork, I have been reading about ways that school districts throughout the country have attempted to solve the issue of unhealthy school lunch as a branch of food insecurity.

MA Food Programs

All Programs:
-SNAP Food Stamps
-Food Pantries and Free Meals
-School Meals and Summer Food Programs
-Meals on Wheels and Dining Centers
-Bags of Food/Food Packages
     -Brown Bag: one free bag of food per month to low-income seniors
     -Dollar-a-Bag: $1 for one grocery bag of produce
     -Serve New England: stopped service, under investigation...
-Other
     -Mass Children's Fund
     -HIV/AIDS Nutrition Services

It's National School Lunch Week !

That is all.