Ezra Klein Archive: Food
Do better school lunches help kids learn?
In 2005, British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver convinced London's Greenwich borough to let him remake their school-lunch system. Armed with some publicity, some private funding and some ideas about how school lunches should look, he began remaking the kitchens...
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November 11, 2009; 12:34 PM ET |
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Can Zagat survive the rise of electronic communication?
The fine folks at Zagat sent me an early copy of their latest little red book. It's friendlier than Mao's effort, but it's beginning to feel similarly dated. The problem is that the book sounds like it's making fun of...
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November 9, 2009; 5:40 PM ET |
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Why eating isn't like smoking
I forgot to link to my latest Food policy column, but it centers around a farmer's market stroll with OMB health-care policy adviser Ezekiel Emanuel. The government is fairly sure-footed when it comes to health-care policy. But what about...
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November 5, 2009; 5:32 PM ET |
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Refrigerator philosophy
I'm moving. And not just from one house to another, but from one living situation to another. For years, I've lived in a group house. Before that, I lived in college. Before that, with my parents. This will be...
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November 2, 2009; 3:59 PM ET |
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Eating dogs
So long as we're talking about meat, I might as well link this op-ed by Jonathan Safron Foer arguing that we should all eat dog. Foer is coming out with a book on vegetarianism soon, and though the initial...
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November 2, 2009; 12:16 PM ET |
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Hybrid cows
It's inarguable that the livestock industry is a tremendous contributor to global warming. Estimates place it above the global transportation sector. To put it simply, cows are worse than cars. Add in that demand for meat is expected to...
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November 2, 2009; 11:56 AM ET |
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