Jamie’s mission to bring healthy meals to LA’s schools was closed down on last night’s episode, as he celeb chef was told the LAUSD had forbidden him from competing with cafeteria food, despite his students making and serving 150 meals to paying pupils.
‘Letting you in was a quarter of the battle’, Mike from the school management told him. ‘You’re not allowed to compete with cafeteria food, film cafeteria food or sell alternative meals during school hours.’
‘It’s a massive fingers up’, replied Jamie.
‘It’s up to you now’, a tearful Jamie told Spanish speaking volunteer parents at a meeting, before embracing his role as a culinary educator at the school and teaching the pupils where food comes from.
His lesson was clearly overdue as most of the 17-year-olds failed an elementary level test, claiming butter comes from corn, cocoa from a chocolate river, I wish, and honey from a honey bear, and it was multiple choice answers.
To prove his point further, the chef held a science lesson showing the teens what ingredients are used in their favourite sweet treat, ice cream sundaes. Over 200 ingredients, he said were present in their desserts, including varnish from bugs to coat sweets, human hair and duck feathers to bind store bought ice-cream.
‘It’s a lesson they will remember’, said Jamie.
The chef also won over Deno, the fast food owner of Patra’s, who agreed to serve only Jamie’s meat patties in his restaurant in return for a makeover of the joint and a new fat reducing grill. He even got Deno a spot on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show to promote the new restaurant and burgers.
‘The real test is when Jamie isn’t here’, claimed Deno, who said his priority was running a business when he met with Jamie’s pupil Sophia, who told him how fast food restaurants are killing her family.
It was only when a local nursery approached Deno after a successful launch of the new restaurant, and told him how he is saving children in the area, that Deno really understood how powerful his decision was.
‘I’m going to push it (the burgers)’, Deno told Jamie. ‘I’m not going to pull the plug don’t worry.’
Next week Jamie has an even bigger fight on his hands, coming face to face with the president of the LAUSD. It could get messy?!
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