More Cooking Up Change Qualifiers

by JBF Editors on March 20, 2013

Since we last posted about Cooking Up Change, a nationwide high school competition to improve school lunch, the Healthy Schools Campaign–backed initiative has held two more of its regional qualifiers, one in St. Louis and another in Jacksonville.

In St. Louis, a three-student team from Beaumont High School (pictured at top) took the win with their menu of barbecue baked chicken, sautéed broccoli and carrots, and poached pears. You can read St. Louis Public Radio's coverage of the competition on its website. 

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Recipe Roundup: Leafy Greens

by Anya Hoffman on March 19, 2013

When the lack of new offerings at the farmers' market gets us down this time of year, we turn to leafy greens. The trick is to move beyond a simple sauté: try greens puréed into creamy soups, tossed into a lemony salad, or braised and stuffed into a hearty Italian tart.

Kale Salad with Pecorino and Hazelnuts

Kale, you may have gone mainstream, but we're still not over you. We could eat this nutty, crunchy, kale-y salad every day.

Cream of Spinach Soup

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JBF Partners with the Third Coast International Audio Festival's ShortDocs Challenge

by JBF Editors on March 18, 2013

Here at JBF, we're all about the sense of taste. But thanks to Chicago's Third Coast International Audio Festival (TCIAF), we're about to start putting our ears to work, too.

A weekly radio show, audio library, podcast, and public listening series all rolled into one aural package, TCIAF curates sound-rich stories from around the world and helps them reach as many ears as possible. They also run the ShortDocs Challenge, an annual competition that invites anyone and everyone to create a short radio piece based on a unique set of rules and a partnering organization. This year's partner? Yours truly.

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Giveaway: Win Two Tickets to Sunday Supper at Chelsea Market

by JBF Editors on March 18, 2013

The fifth annual Sunday Supper at Chelsea Market, one of our favorite events of the year, is on for this Sunday, March 24! We've drafted another all-star lineup of chefs to prepare a family-style meal to be served in the concourse of the historic building. What's more, we're giving away two tickets! Here's how you can enter to win them:

1. Make sure you’re following @beardfoundation on Twitter if you’re not already.

2. Tweet the bolded text from your Twitter account: I'm tweeting for a chance to go to the @beardfoundation Sunday Supper @ChelseaMarketNY! http://www.jamesbeard.org/chelseamarket #jbfsundaysupper (Make sure to include the hashtag!)

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