Yellow Springs News Blogs Section :: Page 19

• BLOG – The Good Ol’ Golden Rule

  By Lauren ShowsApril 6, 2011

  

  I love Yellow Springs. But this town, like any town, has its weak points.

• BLOG — An opera cake to sing about

  By Lauren HeatonMarch 26, 2011

  

  This great for any sweet occasion cake really is easier to make than it looks.

• BLOG – Wordsmithery in action

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 9, 2011

  

  Wherein I pontificate about Monday night’s poetry reading, hosted by myself and my partner, Anthony, at the YSAC Gallery.

• BLOG – Puppy (and kitty, etc.) love

  By Lauren ShowsFebruary 27, 2011

  

  Even as a newbie, I should not have been surprised at the community’s overwhelmingly compassionate reaction to a recent raid on a nearby no-kill shelter.

• BLOG — Chilis that came before the McKinney Chili Cook-off

  By Lauren HeatonFebruary 17, 2011

  

  The McKinney School’s 17th annual Chili Cook-off is coming next month, and it has some stiff competition from chiliheads around the country.

• BLOG — Students vet the culinary industrial complex

  By Lauren HeatonFebruary 11, 2011

  

  School food may be wanting, but it is astonishing to think that anyone could come up with a meal plan to feed a bunch of hungry kids with picky tastes for under two bucks fifty a meal.

• BLOG — Kids navigate gustatory rush hour

  By Lauren HeatonJanuary 28, 2011

  

  This week in the McKinney/Yellow Springs High School cafeteria, I learned a funny thing.

• BLOG — Perpetually pondering pizza

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 25, 2011

  

  I have heard it said that there’s no such thing as bad pizza. I have heard it said because I have said it. I’m kinda of the opinion that it’s not possible to go wrong with bread, tomato sauce and cheese; everything else is incidental. How lucky am I, then, to have moved to a [...]

• BLOG — Get educated about school lunch

  By Lauren HeatonJanuary 19, 2011

  

  While hopefully cafeterias are not the place where most of our children’s food experiences originate, the school lunchroom is a place where kids spend a regular, if brief, part of every weekday. What is it like for them to sit down together, and what do they eat?

• BLOG — Symbols of a prosperous 2011

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 30, 2010

  

  When asked about the meaning of Christmas, my grandmother would always reply with a boisterous step, “Happy Birthday Jesus!” But asked about the meaning of New Year’s, her speech would suddenly assume a more reverent cadence.