Dr. Christopher Gardner
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Yeah, absolutely. And going back to the Stanford only thing, I mean, part of this argument was, so the central campus of the Culinary Institute of America is Hyde Park, New York, in the Hudson Valley. And most of the 55,000 chefs that have graduated from their program are are all over the country and the world.
Yeah, absolutely. And going back to the Stanford only thing, I mean, part of this argument was, so the central campus of the Culinary Institute of America is Hyde Park, New York, in the Hudson Valley. And most of the 55,000 chefs that have graduated from their program are are all over the country and the world.
They could be in a Marriott hotel in one place and in a school district in another place. Let me take a quick run at this. 2010, Michelle Obama thought, maybe much like RFK Jr., that, wow, the school food that we're giving kids... is setting them up with habits that they're going to carry forward in life where they're going to want Cheezos and pizzas and burgers all day long.
They could be in a Marriott hotel in one place and in a school district in another place. Let me take a quick run at this. 2010, Michelle Obama thought, maybe much like RFK Jr., that, wow, the school food that we're giving kids... is setting them up with habits that they're going to carry forward in life where they're going to want Cheezos and pizzas and burgers all day long.
They could be in a Marriott hotel in one place and in a school district in another place. Let me take a quick run at this. 2010, Michelle Obama thought, maybe much like RFK Jr., that, wow, the school food that we're giving kids... is setting them up with habits that they're going to carry forward in life where they're going to want Cheezos and pizzas and burgers all day long.
We really have to do something there. And in 2010, they passed the Healthy Hunger-Free Kid Act, which was to improve school food. And they gave schools four years to prepare for it. So 2014, it was required. By 2015 and 16... All kinds of people were complaining that the kids were throwing the food away. It wasn't working.
We really have to do something there. And in 2010, they passed the Healthy Hunger-Free Kid Act, which was to improve school food. And they gave schools four years to prepare for it. So 2014, it was required. By 2015 and 16... All kinds of people were complaining that the kids were throwing the food away. It wasn't working.
We really have to do something there. And in 2010, they passed the Healthy Hunger-Free Kid Act, which was to improve school food. And they gave schools four years to prepare for it. So 2014, it was required. By 2015 and 16... All kinds of people were complaining that the kids were throwing the food away. It wasn't working.
We're going to have to go back to pizza and cheezos and whizzos and crappy food because we don't want the kids throwing the food away. There were a couple people who put chefs in schools and said, okay, you can't just say eat better. If they were eating this way for the last however many years they were in school and you just took the pizza away and put in the hummus,
We're going to have to go back to pizza and cheezos and whizzos and crappy food because we don't want the kids throwing the food away. There were a couple people who put chefs in schools and said, okay, you can't just say eat better. If they were eating this way for the last however many years they were in school and you just took the pizza away and put in the hummus,
We're going to have to go back to pizza and cheezos and whizzos and crappy food because we don't want the kids throwing the food away. There were a couple people who put chefs in schools and said, okay, you can't just say eat better. If they were eating this way for the last however many years they were in school and you just took the pizza away and put in the hummus,
they're not going to try that. But what if you brought a chef in that worked with not just the kids, but the teachers, the administrators, were thinking about attendance and kids who go to detention and test scores and things like that. The teachers are complaining that kids are either hungry or they're not paying attention in class. Food, many times, if you pay more attention to it,
they're not going to try that. But what if you brought a chef in that worked with not just the kids, but the teachers, the administrators, were thinking about attendance and kids who go to detention and test scores and things like that. The teachers are complaining that kids are either hungry or they're not paying attention in class. Food, many times, if you pay more attention to it,
they're not going to try that. But what if you brought a chef in that worked with not just the kids, but the teachers, the administrators, were thinking about attendance and kids who go to detention and test scores and things like that. The teachers are complaining that kids are either hungry or they're not paying attention in class. Food, many times, if you pay more attention to it,
can have an impact on all those things, many of which you were just talking about a minute ago. And school food is a great place to do that. And to put a chef in a rural school district in different places is amazing. I now work with another amazing partner named Nora Latour, who has a nonprofit called Eat Real.
can have an impact on all those things, many of which you were just talking about a minute ago. And school food is a great place to do that. And to put a chef in a rural school district in different places is amazing. I now work with another amazing partner named Nora Latour, who has a nonprofit called Eat Real.
can have an impact on all those things, many of which you were just talking about a minute ago. And school food is a great place to do that. And to put a chef in a rural school district in different places is amazing. I now work with another amazing partner named Nora Latour, who has a nonprofit called Eat Real.
And Eat Real goes in and certifies K-12 schools and school districts for meeting 10 different parameters, some of which are nutritious, but some of which have to do with sourcing locally and sustainably and things like this. And I was just on a Zoom call with her with a pitch. yesterday for some funding to do some more work.
And Eat Real goes in and certifies K-12 schools and school districts for meeting 10 different parameters, some of which are nutritious, but some of which have to do with sourcing locally and sustainably and things like this. And I was just on a Zoom call with her with a pitch. yesterday for some funding to do some more work.
And Eat Real goes in and certifies K-12 schools and school districts for meeting 10 different parameters, some of which are nutritious, but some of which have to do with sourcing locally and sustainably and things like this. And I was just on a Zoom call with her with a pitch. yesterday for some funding to do some more work.