For over ten years, BVSD’s Food Services Department has been working hard to support children’s health by providing fresh nutritious food in schools every day. This past summer, the Food Services team took that work a step further by working to address a little-known but potentially serious threat hiding in plain sight - sesame.  

Cooking at home more often is a necessary part of our new reality, and I hope some of the ideas, tips, recipes, and resources below can help you and your family gain a reinvigorated sense of excitement for the joy that food can bring into our lives.

For more than two decades Chef Ann Cooper has been a force to be reckoned with, tirelessly working to bring attention and change to school lunches across the country.