Kids come into the classroom and it's very hands-on, ... Kids like this. After phys ed, it's their favorite class.
It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it.
Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.
It's so important to that we go into the public schools and we feed all of the kids something that is really good for them.
First, kids should be involved in the production of their own food. They have to get their hands in the dirt, they have to grow things. They also have to become sensually stimulated, and the way to begin is with a bakery.
The fact that most kids aren't eating at home with their families any more really means they are eating elsewhere. They are eating out there in fast food nation.
In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We've been working on it for 12 years. We've learned a lot from it. If kids grow it and cook it, they eat it.