A Top Chef From a World-famous Restaurant Wants to Fix America’s School Lunches
by Siti Zawani
@ 24 Dec 2015
After serving as Noma’s chef de cuisine for three years and maintaining the standards that earned it a top spot among the world’s best restaurants, former Washingtonian Daniel Giusti will leave the Copenhagen fine-dining destination at the end of the year and return to the District to launch his next project.
When he returns to Washington in January, Giusti, 31, plans to make a radical left turn into school food service. Consider that for a moment: The chef who has fed the world’s elite some of the most meticulously prepared dishes anywhere — at a restaurant where the tab can top $800 for two diners — now hopes to feed schoolchildren for $3.07 each, which is the amount the U.S. Department of Agriculture reimburses schools for every free lunch served. It’s an abrupt and ambitious about-face for Giusti, who credits his boss, Noma chef and owner René Redzepi, for daring him to think big. To read about Chef Giusti’s exciting new venture, head to
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