Once a month I host a kids-make-your-own-lunch event at Grant Elementary School in Santa Monica, CA.
It's an event orchestrated by Harriet Fraser and myself, born at one of Jamie's Oliver's food revolution call to action meeting.
Both Harriet and I are passionate about...
0 Comments | Posted November 18, 2011 | g:i A
Yesterday night I was invited to a cocktail party hosted by Food Revolution's leader Jamie Oliver.
Jamie was in town and the cocktail party was an excuse to see what has been done in the war against child obesity in the states.
It was a lovely event with Bellinis and...
0 Comments | Posted August 18, 2011 | g:i A
Eat less maybe... ?
Since I moved from Italy to the States almost 20 years ago I must have heard from Americans hundreds of times that Italians are obsessed with food (in a good way mind you).
My answer is always the same: Italians are indeed obsessed with food but...
0 Comments | Posted June 14, 2011 | g:i A
I have seen the new commercials for the Domino's Pizza's "Kids love pizza" campaign.
In the commercials a man and a woman take a bunch of Domino's pizza boxes to a nursery school class. The kids are excited: Hey! Who doesn't love pizza?
But suddenly the excitement turns into...
0 Comments | Posted May 28, 2011 | g:i A
Something really interesting happened today. I went back for the first time after spring break to the 24th Street Elementary School in Central LA. For a couple of years now I've been going there every week to cook with the students. The Garden School Foundation planted a plot...
0 Comments | Posted April 28, 2011 | g:i A
Let's be honest, in America today when you talk about healthy food, the majority of people think about bland, boring food like dry veggie burgers and grilled tofu. Healthy food is often viewed as a terrible, yet necessary alternative to "good food" or better "real food," the food "real man and...
0 Comments | Posted April 19, 2011 | g:i A
I was visiting my sister Barbara a couple of months ago in Reggio Emilia Italy. As I was explaining her how my work in America's schools involves trying to expose children to different foods and ingredients, she pointed to a small page posted on her refrigerator. It was my niece...
0 Comments | Posted April 5, 2011 | g:i A
My name is Gino Campagna. I'm Italian (from Parma, the food capital of Europe) but I've been living in LA for the last 20 years.
I worked with children all my life and in the last 15 years I specialized in cooking with children and families.
They call me
1 Comments | Posted February 23, 2012 | g:i A