Students Increasingly Showing Interest In Food, Nutrition.

New Jersey's Record (11/16, Fujimori) reported that children today "are becoming more and more passionate about food." That interest for some students includes "cooking, nutrition and understanding how the food system fits into their communities." For instance, the Food for Thought Club at Wayne Hills High School last year "prepared meals for the working poor, which they froze and donated to a church." Jane Gorli, a food and consumer sciences teacher and the club's sponsor said that "while the recent state education cuts have severely hurt family and consumer science curriculums...her students' interest in developing these skills is high." Gorli noted, "It's important for people to have these basic skills, and there are more jobs in the hospitality industry."