James Beard Award Winning Chef Michael Schlow: “Let’s start a movement to dramatically improve school lunch”

Yitzi Weiner
Authority Magazine
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9 min readJan 28, 2019

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…Dramatically improve school lunch. It is an embarrassment, and unacceptable, that the average public school budgets around $1 per student for school lunch. Go to a supermarket….can you make anything with good nutritional value for $1? Of course not. Kids in school need a good meal in order to have proper nutritional intake in order to be able to concentrate and learn. $1 per student is ridiculous.

I had the pleasure to interview James Beard Award Winning Chef and Restaurateur. With restaurants spanning the country, Michael Schlow is one of the most influential and respected chefs in America today. His ability to capture a variety of global cuisines and techniques has led to appearances on Bravo’s Top Chef Masters, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Nightline, and The Food Network. Michael’s been the recipient of many awards including being named “Best Chef in the Northeast” by the James Beard Foundation. His restaurants have been recognized as some

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Yitzi Weiner
Authority Magazine

A “Positive” Influencer, Founder & Editor of Authority Magazine, CEO of Thought Leader Incubator