The CIA and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health set out to change that mindset in 2012 with the launch of the Menus of Change® Leadership Summit. Bringing ideas like “the protein flip” to chefs and menu developers, the goal is and always has been to put vegetables and grains front and center.
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