How can we make school lunches better for our kids? Should school lunches be driven by the marketing needs of the food industry or by the budget concerns of school districts or by what's best for our kids?
Chef Ann Cooper is a celebrated author, chef, educator, and enduring advocate for better food for all children. Ann, a relentless voice of reform, wants to see nutritious meals replace the highly processed meals currently served in our nation’s schools. Her educational seminars, like the Slow Food Time for Lunch Campaign, focus on the links between food, family, farming and children’s health. Come learn what you can do to change the way our children eat… one lunch at a time.
Chef Ann’s Bio: A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Ann has been a chef for more than 30 years. Over the years, Ann’s career shifted from primarily cooking to cooking, writing, and public speaking – all advocacy work for a healthier food system. She is the author of four books (e.g., Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children (2006)) and founder of the non-profit Food Family Farming Foundation (F3), which focuses on solutions to the school food crisis. F3's pivotal project is The Lunch Box - a web portal that provides free and accessible tools, recipes and community connections to support school food reform. Chef Ann currently resides in Oakland, CA. For more information about Chef Ann, go to http://www.chefann.com/Join Chef Ann Cooper at the Environmental Nature Center, 1601 E 16th St, Newport Beach, CA from 9 - 10:30 AM on Saturday, March 13, 2010.
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