Labor of Lunch Day!

Hello Foodies,

As everyone takes off from laboring today, there will be more time to focus on one labor of love--food! Many of you may find yourself at the BBQ, or maybe at a restaurant, or maybe on the phone ordering in, but we found ourselves at our neighbors-Charlotte and Lynne's home-for breakfast. But not just any breakfast, pancakes! I love pancakes! Boy, was I excited by this invite.

Look at what Charlotte cooked up at the griddle...

I bet you can almost smell them. These are the best pancakes I ever ate...whole wheat batter full of pecans, apples, and the perfect amount of cinnamon.




I don't know how up you are on your U.S. pancakeology, and since I don't want you to labor, here's a cheat sheet:

• Native Americans made nokehick that early white settlers later called no cakes
• In 1607, you could eat cornmeal pancakes called Indian cakes
• In 1740, you could eat buckwheat cakes introduced by the Dutch and formerly called panekoeken
• English settlers brought the feast of Pancake Tuesday
• In 1745, you could eat hoe cakes named because they were cooked on a flat hoe blade
• Another popular name was Johnnycake or journey cake mostly associated with Rhode Island

One of the reasons, I like pancakes so much is because I loved them as a child. I ate them for breakfast and lunch. I was lucky to be served good food for all meals but not all kids are as lucky as I was.

This is why lunches served at school are so important. Kids need real food at school and our representatives in Congress can make this happen. The Child Nutrition Act is up for reauthorization this fall, which means Congress will be debating whether it can afford to provide kids with food for lunches that benefits their health. This means not serving processed items that are currently dished up to 30 million kids across the country, and we wonder why one in five kids are classified as obese.

Slow Food USA has taken up this cause and has declared Labor Day as a national day of action. You can do your part by visiting their site where they have provided a petition for concerned citizens like yourself to sign.

Make this labor day a labor of lunch and please click here to sign.

Thank you!

Lisa