Lunch Interrupted! COVID-19 and Japan’s School Meals

Meant To Be Eaten

English - February 14, 2021 21:18 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MB - ★★★★ - 6 ratings
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This episode is part of a special series in collaboration with Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, guest hosted by Gastronomica editorial collective member Jessica Carbone. Alexis Agliano Sanborn explores how Japan's school lunch programs connected people and supported communities in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Highlighting civil-society initiatives, she shows how school lunch programs were a source of resiliency in local food supply and distribution networks.

Photo courtesy of Alexis Agliano Sanborn.