Mrs. Q is an anonymous midwestern public-school teacher who has vowed to eat the rotten dreck being served up in her school cafeteria for an entire school year. Anyone who doesn't understand all the fuss around school lunches must check out her blog, Fed UP with Lunch, where she documents these unhappy meals.
The blog really is terrific. In addition to the daily accounts of lunch-table disasters like "Salisbury steak," Mrs. Q offers smart, pungent commentary from inside a public school in an economically depressed region. Her discussion of the "obesity frame"--a topic I'll be returning to soon--is one of the best I've seen. Her post on how "there's no money" for public schools--not just for lunch but for basic stuff like ... teachers--is a heartbreaking commentary on how our public-education system is an ideal mechanism for entrenching class divisions.
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