Rome journal: teaching kids about healthy eating

If you come to Italy, you are going to be eating some good food. This has been a common denominator for a while now. The reason isn’t due to the fact that Italy has a better climate for growing good food or that better food is available here. It’s a question of education — education that has been instilled in children growing up in Italy since the beginning … A typical day out for school children would be to see the olive grove and be taught the various techniques of olive harvesting, to the actual production of the olive oil and, finally, tasting.