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Mastering Vegan Baking

"WHAT?” I had just told my friend that I was vegan and she freaked out! That was when I knew that being vegan wasn’t going to be easy. “WHAT? NO MEAT? NO DESSERT? NO MILK? NO ANYTHING? WHAT THE ...

Cooking with Class

How many kids in the U.S. can make a full-course dinner? According to dailymail.com, 30 percent of college students can’t boil an egg, while 18 percent can’t make a piece of toast. Is it ...

Driving up the road to Austin Discovery School during the school year, you’re likely to see gaggles of kids with wheelbarrows, shovels, hoses and hoes. You also might see a bunny named Rusty being ...

The New Bee Bubble

Photo Above: Sustainable Food Center Apiary with Brandon Fehrenkamp of Austin Bees and Tara Chapman of Two Hives Honey. Move over schoolyard-bird wranglers. If nonprofits Whole Kids Foundation ...

A Real Field Trip

As educators know, teaching is easiest and most effective when learning feels like play. Some lessons, like grammar, may be harder to turn into games, but other lessons can easily become adventures ...

My Life in Food

The smell of onion, garlic and spices fills my noisy and chaotic school cafeteria during lunchtime. Today in my lunch, I have basmati rice and a lentil soup with vegetables called dhal. Whenever I ...

Breakfast in the Classroom

Breakfast is generally considered to be the most important meal of the day. And while your mileage may vary depending on what’s on the menu, the adage is especially true when applied to kids. In ...

Lettering in Food

The TRA Brings Cooking Back to School Remember fellow students who secretly wanted to take Home Economics in high school but feared ridicule? Kids today don’t have that problem, at least not if ...

High Expectations

My name is Josephine Montminy, and I am a student in the Green Tech Academy program at Clint Small, Jr. Middle School. I started the program when I was in sixth grade because I wanted to ...

Growing at the Thinkery

On a recent visit to the Thinkery—the new Austin Children’s Museum—four-year-old Elyse Kleinpeter used a hair dryer to discern the fat content in several types of food, from apples ...