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Title Cafeteria Man

Publication Info. The Video Project, 2011.
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kanopy Streaming Video  Streaming Video    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (65 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Playing Time 010415
Description two-dimensional moving image tdi rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr carrier
Note In Process Record.
Title from title frames.
Film
Event Originally produced by The Video Project in 2011.
Summary The USDA estimates 32 million school kids consume up to 50% of their calories at school, contributing to the obesity epidemic among young people. What does it take to reform school lunch programs and provide healthful, tasty meals to our nation's kids? Cafeteria Man takes a behind the scenes look at Tony Geraci's sweeping, tenacious efforts to kick start school lunch reform in Baltimore's schools, a large urban district that serves 83,000 students, and later in Memphis schools, with 200,000 kids. As the newly hired Food and Nutrition Director of the Baltimore's public school district, Geraci hatches an ambitious, multi-faceted plan to feed students healthy, locally-sourced meals, teach them nutritional awareness, and offer them training and vocational opportunities in the world of food. His bold vision includes a 33-acre teaching farm, school vegetable gardens, student-designed meals, and meatless Monday's. Cafeteria Man follows Geraci as he partners with a dedicated group of parents and students to overhaul a long-established, dysfunctional lunch program and battle the entrenched bureaucracy behind it. The film profiles Baltimore's experience as it becomes recognized as part a burgeoning national movement, and includes appearances by food author Michael Pollan, First Lady Michelle Obama, and Assistant White House Chef Sam Kass. Featuring the voices and images of students, parents, administrators, teachers and farmers, the film vividly documents this hopeful story, as well as honestly portraying the challenges. It makes clear that successfully transforming school lunch programs ultimately requires sustained efforts by a broad coalition acting on behalf of the well-being of students..
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject Child health services.
Health.
Indexed Term Documentaries
Genre/Form Documentary films
Added Author The Video Project (Firm), Distributor.
Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
Music No. 1171063 Kanopy

 
    
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