I'd recently joined our district's Food Services Parent Advisory Committee (reluctantly because, after all, my own kids won't even eat school food), and then, realizing how much I had to learn about
the byzantine National School Lunch Program, I'd read Janet Poppendeick's Free For All: Fixing School Food in America — a consciousness - raising experience.
I've mentioned that book here so often, you can all be forgiven for assuming that Ms. Poppendieck and I are secretly related, or that I have some lucrative royalty deal with her publisher, but in truth, it's just an awesome book for anyone trying to wade through the
byzantine mess that is our current
national school lunch program and interested in ideas for fixing it.