What's For Dinner?

Tonight's Guests: Jill Overdorf The show tells how Los Angeles got the most comprehensive food purchasing guidelines for food service institutions in the US - and reflects that trade agreements currently under negotiation would do away with local procurement policies. Jill Overdorf describes the Food Policy Council working group decision to address all its objectives (nutrition, sustainability, animal welfare, worker justice and economic development) and develop its own policy, when it found nothing for a model. Colleen McKinney describes getting buy-in from city departments to assure success when City Administration adopted it as policy. Jill is Corporate Executive Chef and Director of Business and Culinary Development for Coosemans Shipping of Los Angeles. Colleen is Policy Analyst for the LAFPC.