Welcome to the third installment in #BehindThePlate. To read the other articles, click here or here. Sweetgreen, a restaurant chain that promotes healthy eating, released mock-up images of school lunches around the world. The lunches in some countries actually look tasty and healthy. Some pork with veggies, black beans and rice, and salad and bread in Brazil. Local fish on arugula and pasta in Italy. … Continue reading What we can learn from France about how to improve our school lunches

  Pizza today is one of those, perhaps few, things that are popular around this world. So many of our differences divide us, yet if you ask a child in New York, London, Paris, or Rome, what is their favorite food, many will say pizza. How did this phenomenon happen? Has it always been this way?   Perhaps you would be surprised if I told … Continue reading The surprisingly long history behind pizza