Quarantine Cooking
Orla Meehan, Caboose and Outreach Editor
May 22, 2020
With quarantine canceling our usual lives, we are all looking for new ways to fill our time, and get off the couch. Here is a food haul from members of the Urban community who have been experimenting with the art of cooking. Courtney Rein: Rein, the English Department Chair and an English Teacher...
Humans of Flik Dining
Lola McAllister and Eli Gordon
May 1, 2019
In October, 2018, the Urban Legend called on the school community in an editorial to “work together to ensure that gratitude and human connection remain integral elements of our culture” by getting to know people who provide invaluable service to the Urban community but whose contributions often go ov...
No more cashiers: Amazon Go is changing the way we shop
Lena Bianchi, Design Editor
February 28, 2019
Most of the time, grabbing an item off the shelf of a grocery store and walking right out the door without checking out, is stealing. However, at Amazon Go, this is the only way to purchase items. Amazon Go is a different type of corner store-supermarket that allows their customers to enter by using an ...
Flik combines financial security with sustainable, small batch cooking
Lily Daniel and Tikloh Bruno-Basaing
February 3, 2019
In the past four years, the Urban community has been served by three different food providers: Urban’s own cafeteria service, an outsourced company called Fare Resources and currently, Flik Independent School Dining. While Urban has finally arrived at Flik, the difficulty of maintaining a successful bus...
Urban leads SF high schools with Meatless Mondays
Ellie Lerner, Staff Writer
December 19, 2018
This December, Urban may become the first school in San Francisco to implement Meatless Mondays if the trial for the new menu is proven successful. Out of concern for the dire state of the environment, Urban student Ella Rosenblatt ‘19 brought the idea of Meatless Mondays to the school administratio...
Puerto Rico post Maria: “feed the islands, not the exports”
Lily Daniel, Caboose Editor
November 16, 2017
In the wake of destruction caused by Hurricane Maria, sustainable farming organizations in Puerto Rico such as El Departamento de La Comida are attempting to encourage a shift away from the country’s dependence on imports towards sustainable food practices. Over a month since the hurricane first hit t...
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