Littlebrook Elementary School celebrated Food Day, Oct. 21, with a garden feast made with produce from the children’s edible gardens on campus. The menu included rosemary scones, beets and beet greens and home-grown popcorn. Festivities drew the attention of a reporter from the Princeton Packet, and netted a front-page story. story.
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Community dinner hosted by Princeton University
We scooped Bent Spoon’s Princeton School Gardens chocolate-rosemary ice cream as dessert for the Corner House/Princeton University’s Community Dinner under the stars that coincided with the second annual Food Day nationwide. The event drew about 300 people, most of whom were given white T-shirts to help carry out a white theme.
Michelle Obama served tomatoes, Bent Spoon cupcakes made with herbs from school gardens
First Lady Michelle Obama, champion of good food, edible gardens and invigorating exercise regimens, was served produce from Littlebrook and Riverside school gardens at a lunch she attended last Sunday to raise funds for the re-election campaign of President Barack Obama.
Max Hansen, whose eponymously named catering company of Pipersville, PA, provided the meal, said that guests were served cherry tomatoes and basil from Riverside Elementary School gardens along with Comeback Farm (Hunterdon County, NJ) heirloom tomatoes in a salad of Blue Moon Acres (Pennington, NJ and Buckingham, PA) baby greens. For dessert, Mr. Hansen served Gab Carbone’s Bent Spoon cupcakes slathered with a choice of three buttercream frostings infused with herbs from the Littlebrook Elementary school garden: lavender, lemon balm and chocolate mint. He said that he was able to mention to the First Lady that the herbs were picked from Princeton School Gardens.
The lunch was served in the back gardens of Andy and Carol Golden’s home, overlooking a valley behind North Snowden Lane, near Herrontown Road.