{"id":13654,"date":"2009-10-08T10:23:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T14:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=13654"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:35:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:35:21","slug":"huffington-post-blogger-liz-neumark-p13-reviews-bates-maine-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/10\/08\/huffington-post-blogger-liz-neumark-p13-reviews-bates-maine-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Huffington Post blogger Liz Neumark P&#039;13 reviews Bates, Maine food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Huffington Post<\/em> blogger Liz Neumark P&#8217;13, sharing her splendid experience in Maine during Parents &amp; Family Weekend, gives kudos to Bates for its state-of-the-art New Commons, self-operated Dining Services and community-minded approach to food service. Neumark praises Director Christine Schwartz for working with small-scale, first-time immigrant Somali farmers in the Lewiston-Auburn area, &#8220;encouraging them to grow produce she can buy for the school.&#8221; Neumark came away &#8220;honestly&#8230;impressed&#8221; that a &#8220;small college thinking globally and acting neighborly [can] make a small difference&#8230;. In the long journey that lies ahead to social and food justice, this is a brilliant and powerful small step.&#8221; Neumark is CEO of Great Performances, one of the country&#8217;s largest independent catering firms. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/liz-neumark\/kaleidoscope-in-maine_b_310312.html\">View story<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huffington Post blogger Liz Neumark P&#8217;13, sharing her splendid experience in Maine&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,30,232,31,32,224,11012,11009],"tags":[664,11051,1417,10830],"class_list":["post-13654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-civic-engagement","category-environment-sustainability","category-lewiston-auburn","category-maine-and-new-england","category-society-culture","category-student-life","category-the-college","tag-agriculture","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-dining-services","tag-lewiston-auburn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93299,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13654\/revisions\/93299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}