This TED Talk features food entrepreneur Sam Cass, recorded live at TED Talks Live 2015.

I'm a chef and a food policy guy, but I come from a whole family of teachers.

My sister is a special ed teacher in Chicago.

My father just retired after 25 years teaching fifth grade.

My aunt and uncle were professors, my cousins, all teach everybody in my family, basically teachers

except for me.

They taught me that the only way to get the right answers is to ask the right questions.

So what are the right questions when it comes to improving the educational outcomes for our children?

So there's obviously many important questions, but I think the following is a good place to start.

What do we think the connection is between a child's growing mind to their growing body?

What can we expect our kids to learn

if their diets are full of sugar and empty of nutrients?

What can they possibly learn if their bodies are literally going hungry?

And with all the resources that we are pouring into schools,

we should stop and ask ourselves, are we really setting our kids up for success? Now, a few years ago,

I was on, I was a judge on a cooking competition called Chot. Four chefs compete with mystery ingredients to see

who can cook the best dishes. Except for this episode, it was a very special one. Instead of four

overzealous chefs trying to break into the limelight, something that I would know nothing about.

These chefs were school chefs.

You know the women that you used to call lunch ladies,

but the ones that I insist we call school chefs.

Now, these women, God bless these women,

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