A Cook's Notebook: The Cordon Bleu Lunch Lady
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
Length: 03:26
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A Cook's Notebook - reflections on food and cooking in our kitchens and in our lives - airs weekly on WAMC
The segments are written and designed to fit into ME, D2D and WESAT & WESUN
The Cordon Bleu Lunch Lady was broadcast on WCAI & WNAN, Nov 10, 2004. It also aired on BBC's The World in Your Ear, April 22, 2005
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A Cook's Notebook - reflections on food and cooking in our kitchens and in our lives - airs weekly on WAMC The segments are written and designed to fit into ME, D2D and WESAT & WESUN The Cordon Bleu Lunch Lady was broadcast on WCAI & WNAN, Nov 10, 2004. It also aired on BBC's The World in Your Ear, April 22, 2005 PROMOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
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was broadcast on WCAI & WNAN on Nov. 10, 2004
Transcript
Over dinner one night my son Eli, a fourth grader, told me that I should ask the Lunch Lady for cooking lessons. ?She could teach you how to make kale soup? he said in such a way that tried not to hurt my feelings. Then Max, my eleven-year old chimed in with: ?And pesto and green beans too? duplicating his brother?s diplomatic tone. All I could think of was ? they like the kale soup and green beans at school?
It wasn?t what I expected but as it turns out, neither is the Lunch Lady. Christine Napolitan is a culinary force to be reckoned with and her food is about as close to homemade as you can get or wish for, at a public school. She?s a graduate of Cordon Bleu and also studied with the renowned Italian chef Marcella Hazan. And at the Martha?s Vineyard Public Charter School in West Tisbury, Massachusetts ? Christine starts at 6:30 in the morning ? simmering soups from scratch, rollin...
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Review of A Cook's Notebook: The Cordon Bleu Lunch Lady
This piece makes me want to get back to The Vineyard and have lunch -- in a school!
A salutory, tip of the toque, to this particular lunch lady - Christine. It's "just about food" except it's also about the important ritual of eating - and the learning experience it can be.
Makes one think about how food - and the business of the lunchroom - could be/should be incorporated into the curriculum. What are the economics of your school's cafeteria? What sorts of resources (local, global) are required to serve lunch to X number of kids everyday?
This is a great piece - another in a long series - that does what all great stories do - they make you think. This one, of course does a bit more. It also makes your mouth water.