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The Main Course - Episode 22 - Ann Cooper & Andrew F. Smith

First Aired - 09/20/2009 12:00PM

This week, Patrick & Katy are joined by renegade school lunch lady Ann Cooper & author/historian Andrew F. Smith.

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Introduction & Opening Song (4:36)

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The Main Course, Patrick Martins, Katy Keiffer, Jack and Nat now have a voice on air!, Bernie Wides, The Naturalist, Heritage Radio Network,

Ann Cooper Talks About Our School Lunch Problem in America (11:04)

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school lunches, Ann Cooper, Whole Foods, sustainability, children, private schools, New York City, Harlem, Alice Waters, Director of Nutrition Services, Boulder, Colorado, Food Family Farming Foundation, East Hampton, New School, regional organic, multi generational, Director of Wellness and Nutrition, Tom Harkin, health care debate, Kathleen Merrigan, Arnie Duncan, food distributors, small budget, food, finance, facilities, human resources and marketing, junk food, free lunches, chicken nuggets, corn dogs, national school lunch program started in the 1960's, national security, some young men were so malnourished, they were unable to serve in the military, using policy to change policy, USDA, Denver, school board, concerned parents, nonprofit advocates, private funding, government commodity food program, Berkley,

What Changes Can Be Made? (22:42)

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what are the changes, budget increase, school lunch programs could use another $1 per child, school districts can make change with the budget they have by doing a full budget assessment, salad bars, whole grain bread, regional milk, Hearst Ranch, the meat that froms from the USDA is bottom of the barrell, contamination issues, fair pricing, selling leftover product to schools, local burritos, Colorado milk, farming classes, hands on experience, local produce, there are no laws against choosing your source in school lunch programs, regional distributers, Obama administration, Michelle Obama, a week in the life of Ann Cooper, Beth Collins, childhood obesity, slow food, culinary students, tuition reimbursment for working at schools, cooking and gardening classes, marketing campaigns for healthy food, Hillary Clinton, Tom Vilsack, the squeaky wheel gets the oil, Michael Pollan, http://www.thelunchbox.org/, protein, procurement, how can we improve meats in school?, advice for distributors,

Author Andrew F. Smith Gives Some History on Food in America (14:38)

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Tisch, NYU, Hearst Ranch, Carlo Petrini, Andrew F. Smith, the evolution of food in the United States, food history, colonial period, Civil War, canning revolution, blowfish, food for people going on long sailing trips, condensed meat, meat patties, Gail Borden, conservation, canned food helped urban and poor families, Alice Waters, frozen food, World War II, refrigeration revolution, Vitamin C, lemons, oranges, sales skyrocketed in the 1920's and 30's, fresh squeezed orange juice, California, soda is one of the leading cause of obesity in this country, science food, Fruit Loops, high fructose, snack food, Cracker Jack is the first national junk food, street vendors, canning used to be elite, 1 in 4 kids died from tuberculosis before the age of 5 because of bad milk, refrigerated train cars,

The History of Food Marketing & Advertising (12:38)

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snack foods go national through advertising, labels for canned food, Quaker Oats, turning points in American food history, Oliver Evans, grist mill, making mills automatic with pulleys, elevators, and buckets, grain into flour, processed food, Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Civil War, using food as a weapon, the South lost because the food supply was cut off, Victory Gardens, fast food, the hamburger started as the Hamburg steak, New Haven, surge of ethnic populations, New York Times, minced meat, meat loaf, TV dinners, packaging was shaped like TV's coincidentally, the product was not meant to eat in front of TV's, family dinners in front of the television, marketing, advertising, Campbell's, milling, WW2, WWII, Germany, immigration, continuous processing, German immigrants used beef remains to create the Hamburg steak,

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