PUBLIC SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS SEE MENU SHAKE-UP
Across New York City’s public school system, for instance, menus are getting a shake-up.
About 100 recipes are set to be rolled out throughout the next school year. Chefs will be trained to prepare meals with plant-based ingredients.
“The feedback we’re getting is mostly thumbs up on all the recipes,” said Wellness in the Schools national programme director Marion Williams.
“Excited about the new flavours and really interested in how the recipes lay out. Not that difficult to put together.”
New York built on meatless Mondays and rolled out a plant-powered Friday initiative across the city’s public schools last year, as part of a wider push to trim the fat off carbon emissions.
“Red meat, in particular, and dairy, in the way that food is produced at the farm level, it’s very carbon-intensive,” said Ms Kate MacKenzie, executive director at the New York City Mayor’s Office of Food Policy.
“So if we’re trying to reduce the amount of emissions in our city, we can’t ignore the contributions of food.”
Source: CNA
