Who is Tony Geraci? For director Richard Chisolm and everyone else involved in the slim, one-sided but no less interesting "Cafeteria Man," he is a saint. Arriving on his houseboat in the marina of Baltimore, Maryland, he rolled up his sleeves and fought to reform school lunches for children in the city in his role as the new Director Of Food & Nutrition. Promising a program that emphasizes locally grown and nutritious food over frozen, pre-packaged slop, the ideas were big and some of the execution was grand. Did he achieve what he set out to do? That depends on who you ask, but the documentary never brings up that question. In fact, we never really know who Geraci is. A trained chef, it's not really clear how he came into food activism, why he lives on a houseboat, why he chose Baltimore to try and reform, or even what his...
- 10/24/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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