“The variety on the menus is astonishing: no single meal is repeated over the 32 school days in the period, and every meal includes an hors d’oeuvre, salad, main course, cheese plate and dessert.”

Care to guess what fancy restaurant this refers to?

It’s actually a Parisian public school where school lunches are a treasured and sacred part of school life. While in the U.S. we have to deal with ever evaporating budgets and “ketchup is a vegetable” approaches to feeding our kids, the French are feeding their students real, not processed, five-course meals.