Around 8:30 each morning, students at the Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Berkeley, CA, cross an asphalt playground behind the main school building and begin drifting into a cafeteria and kitchen complex known as the “dining commons” to pick up breakfast. They head for a set of rolling metal shelves where the food is already waiting […]
Executive chef Bonnie Christensen was at her desk, holding forth on her troubles with labor unions, when her second-in-command, sous chef Joan Gallagher, walked into the kitchen office cradling a bunch of asparagus freshly picked and just arrived in a 350-pound delivery from Full Belly Farms some 90 miles away in Sonoma County. Asparagus was entering peak […]
Eric Weaver’s son is a freshman in college now. But back when he was in kindergarten, Weaver, an appeals attorney in Berkeley, CA, was a parent volunteer who couldn’t help noticing that the kids were sneaking into the teacher’s snacks. Not only were kids hungry because they hadn’t eaten breakfast, Weaver discovered, but what the schools […]
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