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Food Becomes Curriculum in School Lunch Revolution
By Tom Philpott, Grist Magazine
Posted on January 30, 2007

Even the most intractable pathology can disappear, sometimes  
relatively quickly. A sign above a water fountain proclaiming "no  
coloreds" would cause any American to flinch today. Just half a  
century ago throughout the South, such abominations formed a banal  
part of the built landscape.

I got to thinking about deep-rooted problems and rapid change a few  
days ago while talking with Ann Cooper, a former star chef who now  
proudly styles herself a "renegade lunch lady."

Cooper is on a mission to transform the nation's abysmal school-lunch  
system. I met her for a cup of coffee in Asheville, N.C., where she  
was promoting her new book Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed  
Our Children. After our conversation, I began to wonder if the idea  
of pumping kids full of flavorless, nutritionally suspect convenience  
food at school might soon become as socially unacceptable as Jim Crow- 
style racism.

entire article at 
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/47283/