Posted on 06/30/2012 3:05:19 PM PDT by ColdOne
In addition to having the title of Assistant Chef, he’s also a White House Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives - a job that has put him in the spotlight as a spokesperson and earned him a spot on People Magazines 100 Most Beautiful People and Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business 2011.
“This is now our 4th season,” Kass says. “We have a lot of corn. All of the summer stuff. The cucumbers are going bananas. We have beans and squash and lots of tomatoes. We have lots of potatoes, sweet potatoes. The strawberries are coming. The blueberries are looking good. So we’re doing great.”
The garden has been a signature initiative of the First Lady who has used it to start a conversation on healthy eating for children. It’s a learning garden and school groups are frequently invited to visit the garden to touch, feel and taste the vegetables.
“When kids are empowered as actors in this and they get to be a part of the process of planting a seed and watching it grow and preparing it to eat, their minds just open up because they take real ownership in the process,” Kass said.
Kass points to the statistics. “I’m incredibly worried and so is the First Lady right now. One in three of the youngest generation will have diabetes in their lifetime unless we turn this around.”
(Excerpt) Read more at eatocracy.cnn.com ...
The cucumbers are going bananas.
I don’t know why that strikes me as funny...but it does.
I have a couple of different mental images going.
“Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business 2011”
What Business?
I have a Danish friend who told me that when people in Denmark go a little crazy they are said “to go cucumbers” since they have no bananas. (”Yes, we have no bananas, we have no bananas today”) LOL
“The cucumbers are going bananas.”
These are obviously GM cucumbers........morphing.
And how often does the Wookie stroll across our grass, and wave her magic fairy wand over her beautiful garden??
That is, when no cameras or boob belts are in the area?
Well, we ARE a Banana Republic now.
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