From the New York Times Magazine, a long article on attempts to improve school lunch. There's a lot in there I hadn't realized about how public school food is prepared (tons of government surplus food is used, for example, and the school system needs to basically run a break-even restaurant) and made me realize the challenge to improve the food children eat in school.
Posted on August 22, 2006
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