Meals

Sarah Wu, a teacher in Chicago Public Schools, ate school lunch for a year and blogged about it anonymously. She’s revealed herself and is now out with a new book, Fed Up With Lunch.

Texas recently ended last meals for death row inmates — in this interview, a chef talks about how he has prepared last meals for some 200 inmates on Death Row in Texas prisons.

As part of the drawdown of forces in Afghanistan, the Pentagon is cutting the number of cooked meals offered to troops from four to two. Anchor Carol Hills speaks with army veteran, David Brown, who writes under the name D.B. Grady.

Poet Rod Clark loves Thanksgiving at his Wisconsin farm – but wanted more than food to celebrate the holiday.

The turkey, at least the commercial breeds available in the US, did not originate here. Credit goes to the Aztecs of Mesoamerica who first domesticated the bird 2500 years ago, and the conquistadors who escorted it along a circuitous journey to the US.