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Spoons Across America on The Today Show

The ABCs of Breaking Bread

Time Magazine, June 5, 2006
"How do you get today's kids excited about sitting down to a balanced meal with their family instead of in front of the TV or computer with some chips? That was the question nagging at Julia Jordan, a professor of hospitality management at New York City College of Technology. Her answer: the Dinner Party Project."

Spoons Featured in Blogs

• The Official Spoons Blog Spoons Across America Blog
• Obama Foodorama , (Almost) Everything There is to Know About White House Executive Pastry Chef Bill Yosses...Including a White House Recipe, October 8, 2009

Featured articles

Spoons in the News

• Florida: The Herald
• North Beach Elementary students' class project MiamiHerald.com, October 19th 2008
• Farmers’ Market leads health food charge Wicked Local - Lexington, October 18th 2007
• A Delicious Mission; believing in the power of her personal experience, Julia Jordan sets out to engage children with the natural wonder of food. BeE Woman Magazine, Spring, 2007
• Cooking in the Halls of Power; City Tech Chefs Shine Bright Courier Life Publications, April 12, 2007
• Setting the table for eating right; The Dinner Party Project helps grade-schoolers connect with food pyramid, planning and etiquette Spokesman Review, March 15, 2007
• Spoons Fed: Laura Stanley reports how a cross-country alliance of culinary educators and charismatic chefs are waking youngsters' hospitality talents. Food Arts, January, 2007
• Whip Up a Hot Kids' Cooking Business Entrepreneur.com, December 19, 2006
• Brooklyn Students Get Their First Taste of Fine Dining Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 31, 2006
• Chef Bill Telepan on Teaching Kids to Love Good Food (with Recipe) SchoolLibraryJournal.com, November 1, 2006
• The ABCs of Breaking Bread Time Magazine, June 5, 2006
• First Course, Bishop Kelley students learn about food – from prep to serving Tulsa World, May 5, 2006
• Spoons Across America Site of the Week on the School Library Journal website School Library Journal
• The Dinner Party Project Comes To New York City Starchefs.com
• School Lunch Crunch Chefann.com

Press packet

• Spoons Across America Fact Sheet [PDF, 36K]
• Spoons Across America History [PDF, 36K]
• The Dinner Party Project Fact Sheet[PDF, 36K]
• NY Agriculture Literacy Day Fact Sheet[PDF, 36K]
• Greenmarket Tour Guides Fact Sheet[PDF, 36K]
• AIWF Days of Taste New York Fact Sheet [PDF, 124K]
• 12th Annual AIWF Days of Taste Program[PDF, 75K]
• Julia V. Jordan Bio [PDF, 40K]
• Rita Jammet Bio [PDF, 40K]
• Jacques Pepin[PDF, 40K]

Spoons in the news

Articles about our programs have filled newspapers and magazines nationwide, including, among others:
• National: Time
• California: The San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly , The San Jose-Mercury News, Union Tribune, The North County Times
• Florida: The Herald
• Hawaii: The North Hawaii Times, The Waimea Gazette
• Massachusetts: Jamaica Plain Gazette
• New Hampshire: Portsmouth Herald
• New Jersey: The New Jersey Journal, Bayonne Community News, The Monitor
• New Mexico: Trail Fixings, Texas chef Tim Love corrals local ingredients on drive to benefit children Alburerque Journal
  Fund-raising Texas chef gets a taste of New Mexico The New Mexican
• New York: PS 163 students learn the art of throwing a dinner party, By Joe Dziemianowicz (June 12, 2005) New York Daily News
  The Perfect Hosts, PS 163 students learn the art of throwing a dinner party New York Daily News
  Nutritionally inadequate school lunches might be contributors to childhood obesity – but a handful of committed advocates are working to reverse this dangerous trend (May, 2005) New York Family News
• Ohio: The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Shaker Magazine, The Cleveland Jewish News, Currents
• Oregon: Corvallis Gazette-Times
• Texas: D magazine , Star-Telegram

Press releases

• Commissioner: Celebrate NY Harvest for NY Kids Week (October 1, 2004) [PDF, 28K]
• Fort Worth, Texas (August 6, 2004)
  Chef Tim Love's Lonesome Dove Trail Drive Sets Out For California to Raise Money for Children's Culinary Education [PDF 25K]
• Louisville, Ky. (September 4, 2003)
  Days of Taste^® Keeps the Student Body Healthy in Schools Across the Nation [PDF, 11K]
• Cleveland, Ohio (May 5, 2003)
  One Walnut Restaurant and Emerson Middle School Team Up to Teach Children About Healthy Food Choices [PDF, 15K]