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The word " cafeteria " does not exactly bring to mind healthful,

organic, and delicious dining -- but Yale University is setting out

to change all that. The ivy league institution has teamed up with

Alice Waters (the chef who changed the face of American cuisine

through Chez Panisse, her California restaurant) to create the

Sustainable Food Project. When students return to Yale this fall,

those who eat at Berkeley College, one of the university's 12 dining

halls, will be greeted with locally grown produce carefully crafted

into " Real Food " -- nutritious, simple, healthful meals. The project

is designed not only to feed the students better, but also to educate

them about the importance of what they eat and its relationship to

economics, agriculture, and the environment. Real Food is a major

contrast from the heavily processed foods usually used to meet the

large-scale demands of university dining halls, but everyone involved

is optimistic about the outcome. Project organizers say that the

local farmers are ecstatic, that the students are interested, and

that other big-name schools from Harvard to Stanford are eager to hop

on board.

 

straight to the source: New York Times, Marc Santora, 16 Aug 2003

<http://www.gristmagazine.com/forward.pl?forward_id=1404>