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Ghana’s school kids go hungry after caterers quit amid soaring food prices

Education

Many students who rely on the national free lunch program risk going hungry after Ghana’s school caterers went on strike. 

A Catholic church in Barcelona's Old City is opening its doors to Muslims during Ramadan for the nightly iftar meal. 

This medieval Catholic church in Spain hosts iftar meals during Ramadan 

Sacred Nation
A green cardboard box sits on a door stoop.

Want to help the planet? Ditch your grocery cart for a meal kit.

Environment
It's still not the norm at restaurants in Paris to ask for a doggy bag. But the French government wants to change that.

The French may soon have to accept ‘le doggy bag’

Culture

Target employee creates petition to protest store’s midnight opening on Black Friday

Business, Economics and Jobs
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Teacher goes undercover, anonymously blogs about a year of eating school lunch

Health & Medicine

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.

Chef describes last meals for death row

Global Politics

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.

Troops in Afghanistan to Get Only Two Hot Meals a Day

Arts, Culture & Media

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.

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A Visual Feast

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

The Circuitous Journey of the Domesticated Turkey

Arts, Culture & Media

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.

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