Dan Giusti previously worked at what has been called the best restaurant in the world, Noma, in Copenhagen. So, what is he doing at a lunch line at a New London, Conn., elementary school? Just revolutionizing the American school cafeteria menu. Giusti, the founder of the company Brigaid, hires trained chefs to make high-quality school lunches from scratch, and recently hosted a competition featuring award-winning chefs from across the country to see what meal they could create for $1.25 per student. He talks with Nancy Giles about improving classroom cuisine.
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He’s a super hero ❤️
It's pretty funny that they came up with a white bun fried fish sandwich…doesn't strike me as healthy…a sushi roll is the dumbest idea…it takes forever to make. In my opinion it's not difficult to cook healthy food for little money…especially if you do it in big badges…there can be a lot of stews and soups…buy a food processer for chopping large amount of veggies, buy veggies from the local farmers and buy big badges. If you tell them it's for the school and the children in they're own community, you'll get top prices. Buy freezers and buy a whole cow and whole pic from a local and get it slaughtered local. If you're a good and motivated chef, there is a lot of things you can do. For example put beans and lentils in the food. Start to use more spices and make a weekly spice quiz with the kids to get them to understand the fragrances and what they're tasting…that way you you'll get them used to it and you can try new things, that will surprise them. Use the kitchen in the afternoon to help troubled kids learn how to cook and how to make something healthy for themselves.
Keep on going man !!❤❤
Everyone in the comments talks about big game but where do schools get the money? Not just for the food but for the chefs.
Exactly. He said there $1.25 left out of the $3.50 per meal to feed the kids.
If we make meals at schools quality, YOUR TAXES GO UP.
If you want better education and pay for teachers. TAXES GO UP.
if you want quality social programs TAXES GO UP.
How much of your paychecks are you willing to give up for all of that?????
Think about it – what you pay in taxes would be your take home pay or so and the rest would go to pay for all of the social programs you think we should have.
I ate school lunches my whole life so I get it.
Also if y’all are so worried about what your kids are eating pay for groceries and make your kids meals and stop sending them to school relying on someone else to raise them.
This goes for discipline, respect, love, manners, how to talk, what to watch etc.
you are the parents and GUARDIANS of your children. ACT LIKE IT. Stop relying on the world to raise and take care of your children.
This was great to see. Every school (elementary/middle/junior/high/college) needs to have a school garden for educational purposes, and for the food to be used in the cafeteria (and during the summer, classes can be taught in food preservation so the food grown June to August can be preserved and used in the next school year). If really ambitious, there should be Chickens for Eggs too.
That said, this program should also be in nursing homes/rehab/senior centers where people are supposed to be either getting healthier not sicker, or maintaining a high level of health, and the food I've seen so far in these facilities doesn't reflect that at all. The patients are getting enough calories to keep them somewhat alive, but not enough nutrition to make them healthier.
This program should serve the most vulnerable in our society in terms of needing high levels of nutrition (and having it be tasty too as the two things are not at all incompatible), meaning our youngsters and our oldsters!
Blessings to all who work in this organization!!!❤☮🌎
I grew up in the 70s in a southern neighborhood that went from 20 houses to 1500 in about 10 years. We had a neighborhood elementary school. A resident, a former chef turned stay at home mom, was unhappy with what her kids were eating. She confronted the principle who responded if you can do better, I’m happy to hire you. I doubt the money was worth her time as the average lunch worker was poor and black and probably worked for little more than minimum wage with a nutritionist white lady making the menu and doing purchasing and the like. Well, the nutritionist was let go. And within a week of taking over, our chef turned cafeteria manager was serving us fresh baked bread, real bread not the fluffy white crap, with a protein, 2 veggies and a simple desert of fruit, fruit with jello (it was the 70s) or pudding. We had sheet pan pizza day once a month, and lasagna day every two weeks (I learned later the lasagna loaded with squash, eggplant and other veg). If you cleaned your plate every day, you got an ice cream on Friday. If you at least ate 2 bites of everything, you got chocolate or strawberry milk. We also got a snack in class just before morning recess (we had two real recesses because kids were not yet considered learning machines). The snack was usually banana bread or fries baked bread with peanut butter and syrup. With in a month or so, no one was bringing lunch. Soon breakfast was added. There was less variation bit it was cheap (25 cents) and good. That was normally cheese grits or a fresh buttermilk biscuit with a bit of egg and a pice of ham. This all started my kindergarten year. I did not appreciate how bad school food was until I moved on to jr high. There I was exposed to prison slop/army food of the worst sort.
If we all sacrifice for each other in this way, there's not a government that can touch us. Politician, That can rob us or a system that can drown us . Wethe people will lift each other up. And we never leave our brother and sister behind.
Something something Jamie Oliver something something
I was a cook for 34 years working in the schools in New York City. It depends on the Neighbourhood a lot of kids don’t wanna try nothing new I used to go out there and ask them every time something new went out. It’s hard with little kids. They just want pizza, hamburgers, and tacos Chicken they would eat chicken. We had chicken dumplings in the area of the Bronx that I was in a lot of Mexican children all that work went to the garbage.
Big Mike Obama poisoned our kids with his deplorable pyramid crap
I remember having really great lunch in high school. It’s good to see happy, healthy littles
That’s a handsome lunch lady!
Hey cool! Ghetto gastro also makes sweet potato pop tarts 🤤
My question….. being that we spend more dollars per child on education, why is that not given to improve food? That’s ridiculous trying to only spend 1.25 per meal.
For many children this is their guarantee🎉meal❤ I work in elementary school highly impacted by poverty.
I’ve had moms and their kids walk up to me in open kitchens. Kids will try new things, if they see it made.
1 CHEF. ALL TGE SCHOOLS? I DOUBT IT. JUST WANTING ATTENTION 😂😂😂
AND WHAT ABOUT THE SCHOOLS WHO WON'T GIVE POOR STUDENTS LUNCH BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO MONEY? U PAYING? DOUBT THAT, TOO.
AND JANE PAULEY IS STUPID ENOUGH TO DO THIS PIECE. IT WILL NEVER WORK.
May be messed up to say but if you had lunches like this school attendance would probably be better.
Children should have a delicious and healthy meal to spark their brain cells!!!❤
Put him in touch with people who can take him nationwide
Its in a rich state that has money…Many states you will never ever see this…Picture Hummus being served in NYC…I DONT THINK SO….SCHOOL LUNCHES WILL ALWAYS BE BAD….GARBAGE….All the money goes into peoples pockets…In theory Good idea..REALITY OF IT….SCHOOL.LUNCHES WILL ALWAYS BE BAD……PIZZA and salad with peaches….
Not sure what year the quality of American public school food went down hill because I graduated from high school in 1989, but when I was in Junior high and High school, my mother worked in the cafeteria in both my schools. The food service ladies had to have a certificate in food service and nutrition. The food my mother and her coworkers made was homemade and so good and yummy. WTH happened after 1989????? So glad this guy is bringing good flavorful food to these kiddos.
Love this healthy food ..
Thank you, everyone who made it happen
😎😎😎😎😎😎
We need this everywhere.
WOW SO IMPRESSIVE
Dan Giusti has a series with Epicurious on YouTube where he creates affordable meals with a price breakdown of each. I really appreciate what this chef is doing. He’s teaching Americans that making good, clean food can be economical. Starting young by serving children healthy food in school can build a foundation of food knowledge that can serve them throughout their lives. Thank you, Chef Dan, for caring enough to make a difference in our communities.
Always skipped lunch… did not matter what highschool either food was nasty asf
I wish Americans could see how the Japanese feed their school children! 🤯 fantastic
We've come full circle, and it only took two decades. 20 years ago, there use to women who knew how to cook and made good food. The bean counters got involved and the government got involved and the women in the kitchen just reheat frozen crap.
This food looks nastier than the lunch at my school. They call this better school lunch. It looks like throw up. And tofu lasagna!! 🤮 BIG NO THANK YOU.
The problem is the government contracts, for example, with Tyson givening them frozen dog food nuggets it’s a simple as that when I went to high school we had everything made by the school lunch, ladies why can’t they still do that today?
Yet we still have a problem with obesity across the entire age spectrum?
Love this
Are you still around Dan serving in schools?
And these kids still hate it! Won't try it and talk about how they will never like it
I heard middle eastern I said hell no.