The School Food Revolution

Here are the authors of this great book, Kevin Morgan and Roberta Sonnino with Tim Lang and Roger Hinds from DEFRA. The book launch was absolutely brilliant. Shelia Sissulu gave us a global picture and spoke with passion about the challenges of organising school food in developing countries. The image of the small girls in Yemen, coming to school, veiled, accompanied by their fathers and taking home a small bag of carry out food for their families is one that will stay with me for a long time.

Tim Lang was great and did a good job as chair of tying all the themes together.

Another highlight of the evening was listening to the researchers from Hull who did such a magnificent job of establishing a free school meal pilot scheme . The early results looked so promising and it seems scandalous to me that councillors pulled the plug on it for such short term reasons.

The authors have done a great job of putting school food into a global context and they deserve to sell lots and lots of copies.