Bill Telepan Brings Wellness to Healthy School Lunches

Some of the most delicious dishes in restaurants can be credited to slow cooking and simple ingredients. But outside the kitchen, slowly simmering ideas and simple goals can make a big impact, too.

Back in 2005, a teacher named Nancy Easton and a group of concerned parents at a school on Manhattan’s Lower East Side started to take particular note of a serious problem: The lunches...