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Meet Your Neighbor: Julia Robarts
Julia is a registered dietitian whose grandmother started the first school lunch program in North Reading.
Name: Julie Robarts
Family: Married with three kids (12, 10 and six)
Hometown: North Reading
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College/ Major: - (BS) University of Maine - Nutrition major; (MS/MPH) Tufts University -- Nutrition Communications and Public Health
Occupation: Registered Dietitian and Dietetic Internship Coordinator at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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Hobbies: Volleyball, food blogging, scrapbooking, playing with my kids, reading great fiction and word games
Favorite Movies: Elf, Clueless, Titanic, Legally Blonde, The Goofy Movie, Remember the Titans
Favorite books: Harry Potter series, Twilight series, The Help, The Secret Garden
Favorite restaurants: I love to cook and prefer to dine at home, but if I was going to spend big money on good food, I would go to Henrietta's Table in Cambridge --great food, with a local menu based largely on New England grown/raised food.
Fun fact about yourself: I love to be outside, and try to walk as much as I can when doing errands around North Reading.
Why North Reading?: My dad was a selectman for about 10 years and my grandmother (also a dietitian) started the first school lunch program in North Reading.