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Yesterday, I went down to the Mall to have lunch with Alice Waters, who is in town for the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival. You may know of Alice, she’s the (legendary) owner of Chez Panisse, out in Berkeley, Ca. and she is the founder of the “edible schoolyard” movement.

This year’s Folk Life Festival has “Food and Community” as a focus, so there are lots of chefs in town who, along with champions like Alice, are trying to get a conversation going about America’s food systems, our school meals programs, and support for local farmers....

DCCK is also very interested in schools, and the 80,000 school cafeterias that sit idle each afternoon and weekend. At lunch we talked about how we might partner, both nationally and here in DC where we hope to do a joint effort in a public school. There are a TON of great efforts already going on, and true to our mantra (“it’s already here”) we hope to build on the work of others, while also contributing our unique spin. In our case, it’s getting kids involved in doing community service in their schools, rather than coming to programs like DCCK. There is already a waiting list for Meals on Wheels in 40% of American cities…and there are 78 million boomers who are about to begin aging out. We hope to get a new generation of kids involved in cooking and delivering meals—maybe made with food they’ve grown in their edible schoolyard.

I’m about to become the Chair of the Mayor’s Commission on Nutrition…and one of our first efforts will be to jump into school meals. LOTS of folks will contribute, and LOTS of folks will benefit…which is just as it should be.

The founding of the George Floyd Mini Mart... George Kentar was deeply into music ..In 2002, Kentar and his band was invited to play in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington. It was his first trip to the United States [from Syria]... The address of the store: 687 Millbury St Worcester, MA.. 3.3 miles from College of the Holy Cross.. That's the Jesuit college that Anthony Fauci attended...

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The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s museums of Asian art > after-party “TranscenDance” hosted by the Silk Road Society > Alec Baldwin and Hilaria http://www.revamp.com/story.php?StoryID=2692

Smithsonian Folklife Festival > Laurel Canyon

Patty Stonesifer, 60, is the president and CEO of Martha’s Table.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyl ... 33bef7d20e

She is the former co-chair and CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and former chairman of the Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents.

Here is Obama at Martha's Table: http://marthastable.org/obama/

and an article about an event with Prince Charles in May 2011:

Lunch for Today, Food for the Future

a rousing keynote by His Royal Highness Prince Charles. Seedling Projects collaborated with Bon Appetit Management Company and D.C. non-profits, with the generous support of Kaiser Permanente, to produce a lunch that continued the conversations sparked by the panelists and speakers over a family-style meal.

Hand-decorated bay leaves. The children from E.W. Stokes public charter school and Martha’s Table donated their youthful artistic talents to decorate 350 bay leaves that sprang to life at each place setting. The leaf decoration, coordinated by Farm to Desk D.C. coordinator Peter Nalli, was integrated into a lesson on herbs.

(Mentioned in the article is Bon Appétit Management Company. Parent company is the Compass Group/ Worth further scrutiny as it has links to military and UN.)