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Many families must make Prudential we will make sure your biggest financial goals never have to come at the expense of one another because financial wellness means planning for their future and yours. Get started today Prudential.com/plan for both insurance Company of America in New Jersey, Jane Pauley and this is morning. It's the simple question. School kids ask every day with great trepidation. What's for lunch. Cafeteria meals of never been very popular with kids as you may recall, but now one of the most renowned chefs on the planet is trying to win them over. Nancy Giles will report our cover story. It's called school food that's weird. He flowed right today. Dan Giusti is serving third-graders, but his last job was in Copenhagen at the undisputed goal of the gourmet universe. Needless to say, his departure's done foodies everywhere you know you want to ever leave that why what SF hello tomorrow morning, and more coming up when our Sunday morning podcast continues. What's for lunch countless schoolchildren gazing at the mystery meat on their trays asked that question with a fair amount of dread. Now comes a chef with a blue ribbon reputation determined to change the menu for the better our cover story is from Nancy Giles lunchtime and the kids are hungry for tuna is 34-year-old Dan Giusti. He's the tall sounded and runs regain a company that's revolutionizing cafeteria cuisine is a problem. School food in general because this idea that the kids don't deserve high-quality was always that they do if anybody their captive audience and that our kids if anybody deserves the best food that we can give them is that because they have a choice no more process to release his brigade hires crankshafts to make high lunches from scratch.

Dan Tuesday ended up in the cafeteria story. The fact that I was that chef Noma is the reason that is open up a lot of doors for me. That's right, Dan Giusti's last job was that what many consider the best restaurant in the world Noma in Copenhagen talk to me about fine dining and about Noma. It's a small restless shirt 45 seats is already five cents but was like an average people you're paying thousand dollars for a male after working at Noma for three years. Giusti decided he wanted to do something well bigger. I knew I wanted to see more people and that was the big thing that I wanted to make food with real purpose right that really contributed to something so in 2015 he announced he was leaving Noma to fix America's school lunches stunning the food world. Noma ever leave that foodies may have been flummoxed, but Giusti had found his calling. It's called school food like that's weird. He flowed right a lot of the food that is served as school would never be served anywhere else right and that's the unfortunate fact and now benefits from picked up at Noma the power of the personal touch you don't like, so it's brigade policy. There's just talk to the students about the food. Food comes to you and you don't live a face to put tonight. It's just food when there's okay Walsh Southwest made this like you like that person. Therefore, the food has more meaning.

Kids can be leaders and they don't always love.

It's a whole different thing is like one time with his butternut squash soup and coconut milk. It engenders… Is really tasty and I really his kid. When this jetty is eating it just spits it out man is okay looking for New London.

Manuel Rivera isn't picky but he is choosy. If we can eat it. We shouldn't serve at work. It Rivera was the school superintendent who hired Dan Giusti in 2016 to cook for New London's 3500 school kids. Some folks thought he was wasting tax dollars. Had one comment I think it was for the next thing you know Rivera will be getting limousines for the students compared to what you are spending with the prior foodservice is vital. I will tell you that the cost is 02 New London public school taxpayers thanks to fundraising efforts like brigades, popular weekly community dinner and generous corporate and private grants New London's taxpayers still haven't been hit cost and what the federal school lunch program will reimburse you is it's around 350 email which doesn't sound so bad. But that's actually for maintenance.

That's for paying people to make the food when it's all said and done, you have about a dollar and 1/4 for food, making food, a meal that kids really want me for a dollar 25 super challenging last spring Dan Giusti invited a dozen stars chefs up to New London to compete in a fundraiser show top Chef and see what kind of meal they could create for a buck and 1/4 they came from LA, San Francisco, Chicago, New York City and Washington DC James Beard winner Jeremiah Langhorne. So how much does a meal cost at your restaurant. It depends on what on what you get easily. You know will Jeremiah have anything address on the dollar 25. Chef Jeremy Fox was more optimistic. What's the average price of a meal at your restaurant 70 50. So how do you plan to seasoning right now knowing that the winning meals can end up on the brigade menu that chef limit their imagination. They whipped up chicken tacos monkey rolls tofu Sonia Montecristo sandwiches and meals and all I chefs delivered the food New London students out-of-town adults were the judges I was adjudged to and had to eat a little right a lot of everything and pick a winner on gastro with the Caribbean fish sandwich. Hardly what you'd expect kids to eat willingly.

This is one of those things is is, hard to approach the children remained small but you not think we wanted to take a challenging only show them that this could be a really… And their secret ingredient the power of the personal touch to say the other ships are charismatic but they put extra effort. He sure did they put egg and they told me there smart to sell the cicada like you knew you know to talk to and now Dan Giusti and brigade are expanding to the largest school district in the country. New York City's starting here at Morris high school in the Bronx once more. Dan Giusti is thinking big is 1800 schools in New York City, but the goal is to get everywhere. My dream is 10 years that different that it is normal to do what we for all our reliance on human ingenuity number of scientists and engineers are learning design secrets that might be best described as second nature. Faith Salie shows what we mean blink and you'll miss it all the frog tongue is incredibly fast can reach accelerations up to 12 times the acceleration of gravity to put that into perspective. Astronauts going up into space. Experience 2 to 3 times the acceleration of gravity to catch a glimpse of a frog tongue in action pretty sharp or determined which might describe Alexis Noel bio engineer Georgia Tech University see can imagine these extreme accelerations that are happily happening to the insects being yanked back into the mouth and yet this adhesive on the tongue is still able to maintain Noel's research into that sticky stuff frog saliva began.

She stumbled across a video that had gone viral and actually ran across this really funny video of this bullfrog trying to eat insects off of an iPhone screen course the fake insects in their scrolling on the screens thought is hilarious and so start asking questions like how is this frog tongue so fast and so sticky. How does it catch these insects in the blink of an eye being a mechanical engineer and dabbling in fluid mechanics. Lycos is a really interesting adhesive question. Noel hopes that understanding the mechanics of frog saliva could lead to the development of futuristic adhesives and seems far-fetched welcome to the world of biomimicry where scientists look to nature for innovations.

The shape of Japan's bullet train. For instance, was inspired by the shape of the Kingfisher speak these windmill blades were modeled after the fins of a humpback whale but the most ubiquitous, biologically inspired innovation of all might be in your closet in 1941 Swiss engineer George to master all went for a hike in the Alps and noticed the way burgers adhere to his clothing. Today the hook in the system. Most of us call Velcro and thousands of its actually a new way of inventing and so chemists designers, architects and engineers have a problem. They ask what nature has already solved this problem.

If there's one person to thank for the popularity of biomimicry would be Janine then yes. The core idea is that life spent on earth 3.8 billion years and that's a lot of R&D, then yes, popularized the term two decades ago in her book in the NFL. Helmets are based on how the woodpecker skull. The woodpecker has a very particular skull and spend some time with her at her home in Montana and you get a sense nature has taught her to see the world a little differently when I look at a tree. I think now that it's pretty amazing chemistry operation going on right silently. Once you start thinking this way, you realize that that nature is full of technologies. If you think of technology such as tools for living.

But while the scientific fields might be new. There's nothing new about being inspired by Nietzsche. We need new ideas and what you're saying is the newest been there all exactly by one estimate biologically inspired innovations could contribute $425 billion to the country's gross domestic product by 2030 and you put porcupine quills in your face. Yeah, as an example me what we like to do from time to time some self experimentation and really get a sense for what it is that were working with. It was porcupine quills that pointed scientist Jeff Karp towards a new design for a medical staple that was known at the time that quills have these backwards facing barbs when you try to remove the quill that Barb catches on the tissue fibers and then, displays or to the sites is even grabbing even more and that's where it gets itching, writable, gripping force and so this gave us inspiration for a new staple on his lab in Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital card is creating new medical devices using some old technology.

Very old technology slug slime was a starting point for a medical glue that works in wet environments. This is incredibly strong holding together the way jellyfish tentacles fan out to ensnare plankton inspired a filter to capture cancer cells in the blood. There's literally no hundreds of millions of years of research and development that's happening all around us, and if a creature is not able to come up with a solution, then it becomes extinct. And so, in essence, were surrounded by solutions which I see as ideas for solving problems technologies be elegant as graceful as those in the natural world and if we hold ourselves to that standard. We literally take the natural world. It really helps our name it something to aspire to.

But it's healing exists. I'm Jane Pauley. Thank you for listening and please join us again next Sunday morning.

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