School Lunch: Unpacking our Shared Stories - Lucy Schaeffer

With contributions from Jacques Pepin, Padma Lakshmi, George Foreman, and more!

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Find yourself transported back in time to a school cafeteria - with any luck, on Taco Salad Day - with 70 interviews, spanning the U.S. and 25 countries, vivid portraits, and elaborately reimagined food photographs. Voices range from celebrities and chefs to a circus family, new immigrants, a creative dad whose illustrated lunch bags went viral, plenty of unlikely cultural mashups, and one genuine cafeteria lady: their stories are compelling, familiar, and unexpected. School Lunch celebrates our diversity and our shared experience. In their words:

'Every kid had some good item to trade and I had applesauce' - Sam Kass

'We were definitely a crusts-on family' - Daphne Oz

'I ate the same damn thing every day for six years' - Micaela Walker

'School lunch is one of the core reasons I became a chef' - Marcus Sammuelson

'Our school had a huge storage closet full of instant noodles in case of national emergency' - Aya Ogawa 

Publishers: Running Press

ISBN: 9780762494453

Pages: 280

Weight: 902g

Dimensions: 185 x 237 x 23 mm