In this week’s podcast we’re talking to Chef Nicole Pisani about the importance of food in schools.
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French Bread Pizza is all I can remember about my school lunches.
Finally Malta was mentioned! Guys come to Malta, I'll take you around and you'll find some interesting food around here! Its worth it!
Another twist on teaching in restaurants. The restaurant where I've worked for 20 years, is a restaurant where we train both staff for the kitchen and the floor too.
My question is, do a "trainee" sort of video, including maybe people from rough surroundings etc. Food makes everything better ❤
She is so sweet! Love this
Lovely topic — thanks for featuring this great person! I would be curious to know how she has dealt with the epidemic of severe food allergies in the schools, and helping those students have a positive and not just fearful relationship with food.
Give the lady a damehood
My elementary school's (1st-6th) pancakes are still my favorite pancakes of all time ❤
Really interesting podcast. I really love the push to promote healthy, interesting food to children in schools. I grew up in a family that cooked together, including close friends, and ate Armenian food (mom’s side), Mexican and southern US foods (neighbors) and it really meant we experienced so many flavors and ingredients. So many kids don’t know more than McDonalds and that is sad.
I have not scrolled down, but there must be many links to Barnes and Barnes song "Fish Heads." Eat them up, yum! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9TNcI7eUXY
Surely you're coming up with a format where the Sorted team goes and cooks in a few schools next?
Just seen Ben on TV with Ainsley Harriott, fun episode ❤
I've tried very hard to improve food education in my small hometown here in the U.S., between helping in my mom's classroom over her 25 years of teaching or as a substitute who liked to bring in extra little lessons that were fun and hands on to encourage kids to finish early. I even sent kids home every year with their own herb garden started in upcycled 2-liter bottle greenhouses (always let them mix herb seeds to built 'favorite dish blends' for things like spaghetti, fish, and taco night) in the after-school program and always let the older kids help prepare snacks.
I had lots of parents express their child wanted to help more in the kitchen, try new foods, and even a few started raising chickens or joined 4-H after helping out and learning to grow their own food. Kids really like to learn about where food comes from and how the lifecycle of animals help put food on their plate. It also can be a touchstone of interest that triggers their desire to learn other subjects like chemistry, math, biology, etc.
I even had one little boy, who was quite poor and lived alone with his grandmother in a small yard, bring back a story about how us growing green beans in my mom's classroom lead to him having friends over at his house for the first time because he wasn't embarrassed for not having much to play with. He was a 3rd grader who had gone around asking tables if anyone didn't want to plant their beans at home if he could have them. He went home with 17 plants and had copied my grandmas 'dilly beans' recipe. They canned their own dilly beans and kept growing all summer, and kids from all around the neighborhood came by his house for dilly beans and fresh green bean snacks. I heard a small group of those kids had started a veg exchange club, where they all grow different things every year to trade amongst themselves. I think that group graduated high school last year…
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What an inspiring story! Nicole Pisani’s decision to leave a top restaurant in London to work with children in schools is truly admirable. The video captured his passion and dedication to using cooking to positively impact children’s lives. Congratulations on sharing this exciting and meaningful journey! ❤❤
Sending commis chef across the road to get a pan full of steam!
extremely thought provoking. thanks to all involved!
Such a good message. I wish more people cared about how we feed children. Too many kids struggle with obesity and and body image issues and not getting good enough nutritious meals at home, the list is endless. And these are kids. I dont have or like children, but I do understand that children are our future. We should all care.
Ima say my sons favorite food since he was 2 is mussels. It is perfect easy inexpensive food if you are on a coast.
As a teacher at an environmental ed school, first grade, my thematic focus is how to look at food choices that somehow help the earth. Every year I kind of modify. Some years its zero waste lunches. One year it was on urban gardens. Another year it was on saving the bees. This last year I introduced a question about which food is more sustainable, seaweed or salmon. Kids love to learn about food. Thankfully we have a school garden and a teacher for 2/3 grade who gives specific lessons in the garden. But right now, our district has a contract where our school receive prepared foods that are reheating with plastic covering. It's…not good. In a new remodel we're hoping to get a real kitchen where we can start making our own food.
What an amazing human. This was awesome. I hope they Win. Such a compelling accent. Homemade pizza is my kids favourite.
I had a dream last night I helped sorted food build one of 4 new sorted supermarkets. They sold evey food, product and subscription ever featured in a video but done properly
I cooked for you guys when you came to Nopi, I believe you unwrapped your million subscriber plaque while you were there!
I would think former military cooks would be a pretty great fit for this kind of cooking as well.
Massive challenge for the Sorted Team… create a 5-day lunch program for a school. Keeping in mind general food allergens or intolerance, ability to scale up in a reasonable and affordable way, and that would keep children interested and excited for a meal!
This was brilliant. Time well spent.