San Francisco Food Blog

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Ladies in hairnets aren't the scariest thing in the caf: Here's a familiar-sounding idea for fixing the sad-ass mess of corporate-branded processed commodity foods we serve public school kids under the guise of school lunch: privatization. Grist editor Tom Philpott tangled with blogger Zachary Cohen on that very question late last week. Cohen thinks companies like Oakland-based Revolution Foods can do a better job with the $2.68-per-kid government allotment for meals than school districts themselves. But Philpott argues that, even if Revolution can turn out nutritious eats for a car ashtray's worth of meter change, the real solution is to improve the infrastructure of the school cafeteria -- as far as scratch cooking goes, a dead zone of microwaves and steam tables. Besides, even if Revolution Foods is making it work, megaliths like Tyson will eventually win the privatization war. Asks Philpott, "At a time when relatively few kids have parents who regularly cook at home, isn't showing the a a [sic] bustling open kitchen full of people cooking an important educational tool?" Read the piece. Make up your own mind.