Mr Ferguson’s Classroom

I’ve recently been inspired by two vocal advocates for healthy lunches and better food/cooking education for school children. The first is Jamie Oliver, who is using his recent TED Prize award to fight obesity in America.

The second is a teacher anonymously blogging as she eats her school’s lunch every day in 2010.
One of the most [...]

When I returned to Japan from Christmas vacation, this was my first school lunch:
Baked salmon, aemono (cold vegetable dish) with spinach, tofu, carrots, konyaku, persimmons, and sesame seeds, soup with konbu and mushrooms, rice, a banana and tea. This is typical of what I eat for lunch most days, and to say that I was happy [...]