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The Sporkful

School Lunch Triumphs And Tragedies With Kenji López-Alt

The Sporkful

SiriusXM Podcasts

Arts

4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

School is back in session. And for kids, lunch period is the closest you get to being on your own at school. So what do kids actually talk about at lunch?

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0:00.0

My name is William, I go to PS216 and I'm a lesbian and an adult.

0:09.6

One of my favorite desserts in the world is butter cookies.

0:13.4

We have butter cookie day, you will always see me asking, someone for butter cookies.

0:18.2

I give my whole lunch away for butter cookies, once I had six packs of butter cookies before.

0:23.0

Did your mom know about this?

0:25.0

No!

0:26.0

Never told her.

0:28.6

You probably freak out.

0:38.1

This is the sportful, it's not for foodies, it's for eaters, I'm Dan Pashman.

0:42.2

Each week on our show we obsess about food to learn more about people.

0:46.2

School is back in session and when I was in school there was one part of the day

0:50.2

which was usually my favorite.

0:51.5

Maybe you can guess what it was.

0:53.1

Lunch, of course, but now as a parent school lunch has become kind of a drag.

0:58.5

My wife Janie and I have to figure out what to pack for our two daughters every day.

1:02.2

They're always eating.

1:03.6

It's like, didn't we just give you lunch yesterday?

1:06.2

We're barely a month into the school year and I'm out of ideas.

1:09.2

Just later on in the show I'm going to talk to my old friend Kenji Lopez Alt,

1:12.4

cookbook author and recipe developer who writes for serious eats in the New York Times.

1:16.2

And he's going to tell me about his secrets to packing lunch for his kids,

1:19.4

using a product that's gotten a lot of attention and a little pushback lately, the bento box.

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