Appleseeds articles from November 2001

Appleseeds archives from November 2001

What's cooking?(food for you)
November 1, 2001... Lunch at your school cafeteria, dinner at a fast-food restaurant, breakfast in bed--do you ever wonder where the food you're eating comes from? If you were living a hundred years ago, you would know exactly where it came from. That's because...

From seed to feed.(strawberries)
November 1, 2001... Yum! Fresh, sweet-tasting, juicy red strawberries.... But getting those delicious berries from a farmer's field to your dinner table isn't easy--it's a race against the clock. A 21st-century strawberry farmer is a combination of chemist,...

Inventions that changed food history.
November 1, 2001... What do a tractor, a train, and an electric plug have in common? (Want a hint? They all changed the way we eat.) Before the mid-1800s, people had to eat whatever they grew themselves or bought from a nearby farm. In most places, fresh...

Don't wash that dirt away.
November 1, 2001... "Aw, Mom," a boy groans. He doesn't want a bath. His sister pouts when told to wash her dirty hands. Would everyone be happy if there were no dirt? Not farmers. They couldn't plant their corn. Not earthworms. They couldn't dig their holes. ...

Growing our own school lunch.
November 1, 2001... The bell rings. It's lunchtime. Do you know where your lunch came from? The kids of Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School do. They cook their own lunch using crops they grow themselves. Let's visit their program, the Edible Schoolyard, to...

Watermelon patch. (Reading Corner).(Poem)
November 1, 2001... First we poke the seeds-- Tiny, slippery, shiny seeds, Black as the night sky-- Deep into piles of earth. We sprinkle water on the dirt. Green shoots stretch for light. We water the vines and watch As...

The original natural food market.(fun in food gathering)
November 1, 2001... Imagine that it's a spring morning about a thousand years ago in the Four Corners area of the southwestern United States. The colorful sunrise is fading as a group of women and children meet for a food-gathering trip. They walk into the...

What is 4-H?(kids's club)
November 1, 2001... 4-H is for all kids--from big cities, small towns, and farms--ages 5 to 19. Although animals and farming were an important 4-H focus in the past, today there are thousands of different projects in schools, after-school programs, summer camps,...

Global groceries. (Where in the World).(food from around the world)
November 1, 2001... Peacefully piled together in supermarket displays, the fresh fruits and vegetables seem to have forgotten their recent travels. Just a few days ago they were hurried off their faraway farms in pickup trucks bouncing down back roads. Off they...

Rice! For breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
November 1, 2001... No matter where you go in Asia, rice is on the menu. It appears at most meals--boiled or fried--combined with vegetables, meat, or seafood; or added to soups. Rice is the main food for half the people of the world. Almost one billion...

Menus for Mars.(food in space)
November 1, 2001... Scientists are busy developing recipes that can be prepared on long voyages to far-off planets. These dishes really will be our of this world--all the ingredients will be grown in space! Until now, astronauts have loaded aboard their...

The oldest snack in America.(popcorn)
November 1, 2001... Go to a movie and what do you smell? Hot, buttered popcorn--the oldest snack in America. Even before Christopher Columbus reached the New World, native people had been munching on ma-hiz (the Indian name for corn) for more than 5,000 years. ...

Behind the scenes at the grocery store.(produce department management of supermarkets)
November 1, 2001... It's nine o'clock on a Friday morning at the grocery store. Bill Colvin, head of the produce department, just got his daily challenge. "Bill, the truck is in." Leaving neat piles of vegetables behind, Colvin pushes through swinging...

Branching out.(books about food)(Bibliography)
November 1, 2001... Everybody eats. Do you start your day with cereal and milk? Here's an informative picture book about milk, sometimes called "nature's perfect food." Milk: From Cow to Carton, by Aliki (HarperCollins), shows everything from cows grazing in the...

Supermarket scavenger hunt.
November 1, 2001... Bring this list the next time you visit the grocery store. Can you find all these foods? (some can be found in several different forms.) Leaves lettuce spinach cabbage tea tarragon collards Roots carrot turnip...