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Green lunch time?
'Naked Chef' dresses down U.S. school lunches, demands 'real food, |
Tom Philpott |
05 Oct 2005 |
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| Ten years after sustainable-food doyenne Alice Waters launched her innovative Edible Schoolyard program in Berkeley, U.S. school lunches remain abysmal. In cafeteria kitchens throughout the land, de-skilled workers busy themselves opening cans and zapping pre-made meals in giant microwaves. Out on the floor, kids swill soda and dig their little hands into bags of fried stuff that may have, somewhere far way, once resembled food. Waters' effort remains laudable, but it' ... |
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| Topics: Alice Waters, education, food, United Kingdom (all these topics) |
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