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title: "The School Lunch Revolution: Rhonda McCoy in West Virginia"
date: 2017-02-11T03:09:27Z
modified: 2017-02-11T03:09:27Z
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categories:
  - Nutrition in the News
tags:
  - jamie oliver
  - Jane Black
  - Rhonda McCoy
  - school lunch
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author: Elizabeth
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“[Revenge of the Lunch Lady](http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/school-lunch/), ” by Jane Black should be required reading for anyone concerned with the state of the national school lunch program.[![Revenge of the Lunch Lady by Jane Black](http://elizabethyarnell.com/WP/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Screen-Shot-2017-02-10-at-7.58.10-PM-300x134.png)

](http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/school-lunch/)

In the [words](http://www.foodpolitics.com/2017/02/weekend-reading-jane-black-on-school-lunches/) of the esteemed professor [Marion Nestle](http://www.foodpolitics.com/):

This is Jane’s astonishingly well researched account of what happened to school meals in Huntington, West Virginia—after Jamie Oliver left.

Surprise: They got better!

The subtitle explains why: “How an unassuming bureaucrat outsmarted Jamie Oliver and pulled off an honest-to-god miracle in one of America’s unhealthiest cities.”

You’ll be glad you read it. [Revenge of the Lunch Lady](http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/school-lunch/)