Hospital Food: Why is it so Bad?
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Why are the sickest people in our country being served the worst food? Not content to limit our complaints to hospital food, we move on to school food. Shouldn’t it be better? Can we fix it? Let’s talk about it in this bonus episode of “Three Ingredients.” And should you care to read the article Ruth wrote about school food in 1978 for New West magazine, there’s a copy in this Dec. 2021 edition of Ruth’s Substack newsletter La Briffe. Also, find the story Laurie mentions by Jenn Harris on Los Angeles schools trying to introduce items like kung pao chicken and “walking tacos” for kids at 1,000 different schools at latimes.com/food. Three Ingredients is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts as they are released, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber at https://threeingredients.substack.com/ This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit threeingredients.substack.com/subscribe
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