School Lunch!
School Lunch, Unpacking our Shared Stories started as a personal project and snowballed quickly into an obsession (and finally a book!)
Drawing on material from more than seventy voices, the stories Lucy captures in words and photos cover all walks of life—from celebrities and chefs to a circus family, new immigrants, a creative dad whose illustrated lunch bags went viral, plenty of unlikely cultural mashups, and one genuine cafeteria lady. Their experiences are compelling, familiar, and foreign at the same time, forming a cultural time capsule. School Lunch celebrates our diversity and our shared experience.
“What is a corn dog?”
Diep Tran
Cerritos, CA, 1972
“Growing up I was always hungry. Even on a good day there was only going to be one meal.”
George Foreman
Houston TX, 1949
“Then there was one day—a historic moment among my friends—when Rima snapped.”
Anna Ammari, Jordan 1973
“What is a corn dog?”
Diep Tran
Cerritos, CA, 1972
“Growing up I was always hungry. Even on a good day there was only going to be one meal.”
George Foreman
Houston TX, 1949
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Padma Lakshmi, India & NY "I really do not like sandwiches."
Daniela Perez, Venezuela "That week every day I had lunch twide, my mom's and then the cafeteria's,"
Jacques Pepin, France "I begged one kid for some salted pork fat from his jar and he gave it to me."
Marcus Samuelsson, Sweden "School lunch is one of the core reasons I became a chef."
Aya Ogawa, Japan "Our school had a huge storage closet full of instant noodles in case of national emergency."
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