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posted on May 28, 2011
Local-loving chef changing U of T's eating habits
By: JESSICA LEEDER
Published: May. 13, 2011
Source: Globe and Mail“From his post as director of food services at the University of Toronto's St. George campus, one innovative, local-loving chef is upsetting the status quo.
Jaco Lokker, who also oversees Chestnut Residence, is in charge of feeding more than 1,000 students three (or four or five, depending on appetites) meals a day for 32 weeks of the year. Under the constraints of the student meal plan, that means putting out 13,000 plates of food a week at a cost of about $3 each. That hasn't stopped him from converting 65 per cent of the food that passed through his kitchen last year to local fare and bringing farmers into cafeterias to trumpet it. That's more than a million dollars' worth of Ontario food, including all-organic Harmony milk, potatoes and Norfolk county apples.”