Cooking and nutrition electives arrived in medical schools in the early 2000s, driven by researchers at Harvard University and the Culinary Institute of America who brought white coats and chef’s whites into the same room. Two decades later, the Biden administration declared Food is Medicine a formal health strategy. Foundations and grocers committed hundreds of millions to research. Programs that provided prescription produce and special meal kits—once paid for with donations and grant money—became part of the Department of Agriculture budget.