Thinking Outside the Lunch Box: How Baltimore City Is Trying to Make School Meals Appeal to Students

Kamiara West, a senior in the culinary program at Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School, photographs and rates her school lunches on an Instagram account. She is documenting her chicken Caesar salad and garlic knot, after she removed the cucumbers and cherry tomatoes. Amy Davis/The Baltimore Sun/TNS

By Amanda Yeager From Baltimore Sun

Kamiara West positioned her plate to take advantage of the midday light streaming through the windows, angling her phone to capture an artful view of her chicken Caesar salad with a garlic knot on the side.