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  <title>Obsessives: School Lunch Revolutionary</title>
  <published_at>Wed Oct 15 15:57:00 -0700 2008</published_at>
  <link>http://www.chow.com/stories/11358</link>
  <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <short_description>Ann Cooper wants your kid to eat well</short_description>
  <long_description>Ann Cooper wants your kid to eat well.</long_description>
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  <author>Meredith Arthur, Eric Slatkin, and Blake Smith</author>
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    <name>Obsessives</name>
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	<h1>Obsessives: School Lunch Revolutionary</h1>


	<h3>By Meredith Arthur, Eric Slatkin, and Blake Smith</h3>


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Ann Cooper was a celebrity chef before she wrote a book, <a target="blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415922275?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=c037-20&#38;linkCode=as2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creative=9325&#38;creativeASIN=0415922275"><em>Bitter Harvest</em></a>, that got her thinking about the connection between food and health. She has spent the past three-plus years as head lunch lady for the Berkeley, California, school system, writing another book, <a target="blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060783702?ie=UTF8&#38;tag=c037-20&#38;linkCode=as2&#38;camp=1789&#38;creative=9325&#38;creativeASIN=0060783702"><em>Lunch Lessons</em></a>, along the way. Ann&#8217;s mission? To make sure every kid gets the healthy breakfast and lunch he or she needs. And soon Ann will be helping feed kids beyond the Bay Area, as she <a target="blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/20/FDDF158URG.DTL">heads to the Boulder Valley School District in Colorado</a>.
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<p class="author_bio_new"> <em>This is a regular series called <a class="red" href="http://www.chow.com/stories/86/category">Obsessives</a>, in which CHOW explores the worlds of singularly focused food-industry figures. These are the people with the dirty hands, answering detailed questions about the work they do.</em></p>]]>
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