School Dinners - A Progress Report
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 976 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Ten years on from 'Jamie's School Dinners', Sheila Dillon is joined by children's food campaigner and former dinner lady Jeanette Orrey and Co-Author of the School Food Plan, Henry Dimbleby to look at the state of school food and discuss how new international relationships could make British school food better.
It's also 10 years since Sheila visited Sweden to see a free school meals system known for nutritious food, where students and teachers dine together. This spring, Tony Mulgrew, Catering manager at Ravenscliffe High School in Halifax and 2014 winner of Best Cook at the BBC Food and Farming Awards, set up an exchange with Lyndon McLeod, school chef in Gislavedin Sweden. Their aim? To bring together school chefs around the world and share ideas on improving school food online.
Our panel also hear from the Copenhagen 'House of Food', an innovative centre that's creating a school food culture in the city where there used to be none.
Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced in Bristol by Clare Salisbury.
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| 0:51.0 | Ten years ago, I went to Sweden to look at a school meal service. the maneuvering to make cuts until a few days before my visit, the first episode of Jamie's school |
| 1:06.0 | dinners, exposing some of our worst horrors, was beamed out on Swedish television. |
| 1:12.1 | I went to primary school and held up 30 vegetables, right? |
| 1:15.0 | Of which they only knew about five. Incredible. You know, I held up a rhubarb and |
| 1:20.2 | someone thought it was a potato. Suddenly school food was on Sweden's political agenda and the media was ravenous. |
| 1:27.0 | Posses of them followed us everywhere because they'd been told we knew Jamie. |
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