Woman Wants to Reinvent Healthy School Meals in Houston
Style Magazine Newswire | 7/21/2017, 12:18 p.m.
Betti Wiggins
Source: HoustoniaMag.com
Houston ISD’s new nutrition officer Betti Wiggins has a lofty agenda ahead of her. She wants to shake up the way Houston ISD students eat lunch. Her success in the area has already been highly awarded as she has won the coveted Silver Plate Award from the International Foodservice Manufacturers Association for transforming Detroit Public Schools’ child nutrition program. Her unique perspective comes from her childhood where she grew up on a farm and helped grow vegetables and raised chickens that her family ate for Sunday dinners. Wiggins says her mandate for HISD is to launch the kinds of programs she spearheaded in Detroit. Already in the process of partnering with local farms, she’s also hoping to make use of Houston’s reputation as a culinary capital by collaborating with local chefs to put their own signature dishes on district menus. And she’s intent on applying business principles to maximize HISD’s nutrition assets, including a 220,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art commissary that centralizes food production for the district’s 250,000 students.
