Kent Getzin

Greater Seattle Area United States

Chef | Food Service Trainer | Consultant | Child Nutrition | Farm to School | Culinary Adventurist

My team and I developed a model Farm to School and scratch cooking program that gained national attention. Every menu, and in every building, locally procured foods were served daily! I am excited about the Farm to School movement’s potential to reintroduce kids to scratch-cooked, fresh foods! I love teaching school food pros about the benefits of “getting back to basics” with scratch cooking in their own operations and the power of the Farm to School movement. I am concerned that people have the same involuntary response when they hear the words “school food” as they do when they hear the word “dentist” and that is a shame (no offense to dentists, intended)! Farm to school and scratch co...