It was team Jamie all the way on the last episode of the Food Revolution as the new LAUSD superintendent backed the chef’s healthy food initiative.
To get his attention, the celeb chef organised a cook off between some of LA’s schools, with help from the city’s top chefs, who each mentored a group of four students.
Jamie’s team from West Adams won the competition, what a surprise, for their capachio of beef, which blew the judges away with the quality and originality of the dish. The two other schools who got through to the final, Temple City and Santee, cooked steak.
The prize for the West Adams students was an all expenses paid trip to the Culinary Institute in New York, a city most of the teens have never visited before.
Whether or not the competition was a fix, Jamie was invited to speak to John Daisy, the new LAUSD superintendent, at their headquarters. Mr Daisy took Jamie to a school, having granted him access, and told the chef he planned to implement a policy change and get rid of strawberry and chocolate milk in schools in the next two months.
‘I can’t tell you how happy that makes me’, Jamie told him.
‘What happens in LA happens in the rest of the country.’
The superintendent also revealed to Jamie their plans for a new menu, which he said he hoped to devise with the help of pupils from West Adams and Jamie. ‘I’d love to’, he said as the barricades came down and he was able to step inside the school’s cafeteria and see the vegetable garden he helped to create.
However, the chef admitted he was still sceptical as he hadn’t seen the current lunches being served, or the central kitchen, but had to have faith. Speaking to the camera he said, ‘The battle’s not won. The power lies with you to keep the subject talked about.’
‘Progress is happening, but it’s not fast enough for me and shouldn’t be for you.’
‘It’s not just about me; you’ve all got to start stirring the pot and expecting more.’
Flavoured milk has now been taken off the menu at all of LA’s schools, say CH4.
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