
Maria talks with CCSD Food Service Dietician Jake Yarberry
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Maria learns about CCSD’s famous cinnamon rolls, new menu items and more.
Maria visits CCSD’s Central Kitchen to interview CCSD Dietician Jake Yarberry about the school district’s famous cinnamon rolls, new menu items, National School Lunch Week, and all of the delicious meals served to hungry students!
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Maria talks with CCSD Food Service Dietician Jake Yarberry
Clip: Season 5 Episode 2 | 3m 32sVideo has Closed Captions
Maria visits CCSD’s Central Kitchen to interview CCSD Dietician Jake Yarberry about the school district’s famous cinnamon rolls, new menu items, National School Lunch Week, and all of the delicious meals served to hungry students!
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As you can see, we moved locations because we are about to talk about my favorite cafeteria food item growing up, attending CCSD.
And just the smell brings back so many wonderful memories.
We're talking cinnamon rolls.
Look at those right there!
Cinnamon.
Come on in, Jake Yarberry, dietitian with CCSD Food Service Department.
-Hi.
-Talk about bringing out the inner child, let's talk about these cinnamon rolls.
Huge mixers here.
How many do you guys make a year?
-We make 2.4 million cinnamon rolls a year.
We've got like 33 bakers in here, and one great supervisor.
-Oh, my gosh.
And the smell and the fact that it's been around for so many decades just speaks volumes about this little treat right here.
All right, let's talk about some of the other food items, because you do have new items on your menu.
(Jake Yarberry) So we do.
Last year we featured tamales for Christmas.
Now we've got it on year-round.
We did have to teach the kids to take off the wrapping.
So the faux corn husk, we had to teach them how to take that off.
-That's what I was going to call you out on, but you let us know this isn't a traditional corn husk.
-It's not, no.
-It's okay.
I'm sure it's still delicious.
-It is as long as they don't bite into it.
-Exactly.
What else do we have here?
-So we also brought back the nachos.
A couple of years ago, we brought walking tacos to the menu, and then we decided to bring nachos back.
So one week we have nachos, one week we have walking tacos.
-And I do have to say, the theme for this year's National School Lunch Week is Taste the World: Your School Lunch Passport.
And this is a passport.
-It is, yeah.
So we've got our Asian food, we've got our Hispanic food, and then we've got our bakery food.
So I don't know what country bakery food comes from, but it's good.
-All over.
I need to put you on the spot.
What's your favorite food item?
-I would have to say the cinnamon roll, too.
Yeah, the cinnamon roll or I do like the orange chicken, too.
-All right.
Let's also talk about school meals.
You have breakfast, most important meal of the day.
-We do, yep.
It helps with student attendance.
It helps with concentration while they're at school.
And, like you said, healthiest meal they get all day, some students, you know?
-You have breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
-Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and they're all free to see CCSD students.
-And that's so wonderful, important, right?
So they can just go and enjoy the three meals if they need to.
-They can.
They can get it.
They don't have to do any paperwork.
It's just available to them at no cost.
-How do you come up with this many?
You have tastings, right?
-We have tastings.
One of my goals is to have a tasting once a month, so at least nine during the schoolyear.
Hopefully we can do more, and then we do get a lot of input from our social media.
We've got a great young social media person, so a lot better at social media than I am.
-We also have to talk about student workers.
When I was at Fremont Middle School, that was my very first paid-- Did you listen to that?
Did you hear that?
--paid job.
And you guys pay students?
-And we pay students.
We pay high school students.
Middle school students get credit for it.
High school students get credit, plus they get paid for the experience, and it helps them.
I mean, food industry is huge.
-All right, Jake.
While I enjoy this, you tell us about your website.
Where can we get more information?
Students can look up the menus and see what's going on.
-It's menu.ccsd.net.
Again, if you forgot that, it's menu.ccsd.net.
You can look up the menu, your parents can look up the menu, and it changes on a regular basis, so you know what you're eating for the day.
-Yummy, cinnamon rolls.
-That's what I'm eating for the day.
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