So Fresh and So Green

Food Network TV star Rachael Ray wants to feed your kids. Because of a partnership between the celebrity “chef” and New York City’s Department of Education up to 600,000 New York City school children will be eating healthier foods from Rachael Ray’s recipes as their school lunch.

New York City’s school program is said to be one of the nation’s healthiest, which sounds kind of crazy to me. I can’t remember a single vegetable except maybe if you want to include french fries and ketchup.

As it turns out there are other aspects of NYC school lunch that are in need of a healthier change. While at Public School 89 with a group of 6th graders and her new menu a cockroach dropped in as reported by the New York Daily News.

Here’s a track off of MF DOOM’s MM Food album. No rapping on this one but lots of entertaining toon clips from cartoons DOOM favors like Fantastic Four, Spiderman and Superman..

When asked about it Ray said:
“I did not see that. It’s unfortunate if there was [a bug]. I think that these schools strive to be the best across the board; I’m sure that includes cleanliness.” (more…)

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I saw this pic and couldn’t resist. H1N1 swine flu Elmo. Other celebrities confirmed with the swine flu include Marilyn Manson and American neurosurgeon and media personality on health-related issues Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

Artist K74 has been putting up swine flu themed art in California lately. K74 is from Venice Beach, California where “Elmo” can be found. The see more of his work without walking around Venice Beach you can go to K74′s website kosher74.com (more…)

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When I first heard about this I knew this had something to do with he makers of Sesame Street trying to discourage childhood obesity. Cookie Monster has actually been attacked in the media before for his “unhealthy” eating habits. Funny how these people object to the cookie part but not the monster part, which for me was of much greater concern as a child.

According to Sesame Street Wikia: In Sesame Street Magazine issue 144 (May 1985), CTW’s associate research director Istar Schwager allayed the fears of some parents about Cookie Monster’s bad habits: “Each of the characters on Sesame Street is designed to exaggerate a familiar human foible, and Cookie Monster is babyishness personified… When parents object to Cookie Monster’s grammar, we remind them that children learn from a variety of sources — including other Sesame Street characters who speak properly. Cookie’s eating habits, too, are a point of concern for some parents. The inedible things that Cookie eats (a car fender!) make it clear to children that his behavior (more…)

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