Hospital food is going from gruel to gourmet.
Hospital food is going from gruel to gourmet.
Hospital food, like airplane food, is the kind of institutional food we love to hate.
But the days of jello cups and puddles of grayish gravy are numbered.
A lot of people — from deep-pocketed foodies to fast-food lovers to locavores — aren’t standing for barely edible hospital food anymore.
At one end of the spectrum, some hospitals are going extreme gourmet. And
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Health Notes on August 10th, 2010
Two New Grants Utilize Cash and Food Vouchers to Complement In-Kind Food Aid
PORT-AU-PRINCE -The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced today that it will award two separate, high-impact grants in Haiti to help earthquake-affected families meet their food needs from local markets with cash or vouchers. The innovative grants, the first two made in Haiti under USAID’s new Emergency Food Security Program, were awarded to the and .
The Emergency Food Security Program is a new initiative managed by USAID’s Office of Food for Peace. It provides grants for local or regional procurement of food commodities or for the use of cash or vouchers for the purchase of food in response to an emergency.
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