Alice Waters Battles School Lunch: Goodbye Chicken Nuggets, Hello Climate Change
Legendary Berkeley chef Alice Waters, known for Chez Panisseâs farm-to-table vibes, is on a mission bigger than just organics: sheâs launching a School Lunch Revolution to overthrow cafeteria food tyrants. For 30 years sheâs been bossing kids in the Edible Schoolyard Project, teaching gardening and rolling sushi so they actually remember geography. Thanks to Californiaâs new law phasing out ultra-processed foodsâaka goodbye mystery meatloafâAlice dreams of schools buying directly from farmers, not greedy middlemen like Sysco. Sheâs convinced if one kid says âThis is really good,â the rest will follow like a culinary flash mob. Also, the book costs $35 on Amazon but a rebellious $32.62 on Bookshop, because even school lunch activism has price wars.
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Alice Waters wants school lunches to fight climate change and flavorless mystery meat. Because nothing teaches democracy like sushi-rolling 5th graders and ditching the Sysco overlords. Next up: lobbyists hate her because kids might start tasting real food.
If your school lunch still tastes like cardboard trapped between Styrofoam and despair, Alice Waters says itâs because your food was probably born in a middlemanâs nightmare, not a farmerâs field.
Alice Waters turning cafeterias into culinary classrooms means one less carton of ketchup packet per kid and one step closer to world peace or at least less puking in lunch lines.
Source: Eater | Published: 10/22/2025 | Author: Bettina Makalintal
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