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Saturday, May 1, 2010

reBlog from takoma.com: Montgomery County: Last in the lunch line

I found this fascinating quote today:

This picture was reworked by the Fotowerkstatt...Healthier school lunches are in the zeitgeist, the cause of the moment. Last month, Michelle Obama launched her "Let's Move" campaign, with healthier school lunches as one of the four pillars of the program. Following in the footsteps of celebrity chef Alice Waters, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver announced last month that he will spend his prestigious TED Prize money on a grassroots effort to reform the way American children eat, after his recent success in helping to inspire an overhaul of the British school lunch system. In neighboring DC, elementary school children are eating raw broccoli and cauliflower from a school salad bar. And Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma for Kids is the most popular science book among teenagers across the country, according to Amazon.takoma.com, Montgomery County: Last in the lunch line, Mar 2010
You should read the whole article.
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