A cacophony of slapping noises filled the food lab at the High School for Environmental Studies in Manhattan one afternoon in late October. Food Ed., which was introduced five years ago into a handful of schools in the New York area, is now offered as an elective in 37 high schools nationwide. “We don’t aim to change the way students eat in line with a particular dietary prescription,” said Lindsey Dayton, the senior manager of the Food Ed. “We want to help them think critically about the way nutrition intersects with culture as well as the environment and farming. We want our students to understand how eating makes them a part of the natural world and not separate from it.”

Source: New York Times December 17, 2019 09:56 UTC