| MATAMOROS — While some schools endeavor to bring meals like mom makes to their students, at Franklin Delano Roosevelt ...
MATAMOROS � While some schools endeavor to bring meals like mom makes to their students, at Franklin Delano Roosevelt Elementary school in Matamoros, moms are brought to the school to make students meals. �Who better to make them lunch,� reasoned Principal Maria de Los Angeles Galvan Tapia. �They�re cooking for their kids, so obviously they want to feed them well.� Out of necessity more than careful planning, moms at Franklin, as the school is known across the city, take turns cooking lunch for 550 hungry children. Without government funding for a school lunch program, schools in Mexico employ a variety of low cost alternatives, usually on the parents� dime. At Franklin, parents have taken up the cause of organizing meals for their students. Responsibilities for the week rotate among parents, mostly mothers.
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See "Edward Douglass White: Louisiana's U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice" -- a Louisiana State Museum traveling exhibit that explores the lives of White and his father, Congressman Edward Douglass White through Sept. 9 during library hours at Jefferson Parish East Bank Regional Library, 4747 West Napoleon Ave., Metairie. Food and arts camp The Ogden Museum of Southern Art's free food and arts camp for children entering the second, third or fourth grades in Orleans Parish public schools begins today. Participants will learn about good nutrition and how New Orleans' heritage is expressed through food and cooking. They will prepare their lunch each day and, on Fridays, they will use the fun, fanciful napkins, menus and ornaments they have made throughout the week to decorate their lunch tables.
Atlantic Culinary Academy to host national culinary certification
The Atlantic Culinary Academy has been selected to host and oversee a regional chef certification test for the American Culinary Federation. The test of approximately 12 chefs from around New England will take place on Aug. 20 at the ACA�s academic kitchens in Dover. Chef Stephen Hunn, a member of the ACA faculty, said, �The American Culinary Federation is the country�s most prestigious culinary professional organization. Certification with the ACF serves as a benchmark of excellence in a chef�s professional development.� The ACF certification test includes an extensive written exam, followed by a judged set of cooking tests. Those sitting for the exam need to meet prerequisite certification in a number of culinary skills which typically takes eight to 10 years to fulfill. Jim Gallivan, executive chef and director of education at McIntosh College�s Atlantic Culinary Academy, said, �It is both an honor and an important responsibility to serve as a test site for the American Culinary Federation.
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