October 20, 2014 – this piece went live on the Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution website. Read it there ...or here. The Dining Room Table as a Nexus for Change Story by Camilla M. Mann One of my 'Eat a Rainbow' students making pumpkin-potato gnocchi “Raise kids with fearless palates.” That is scribbled into a journal from before I was a mom. Idealistic? Sure. Achievable? Definitely. At first, I just focused on my family. Then I expanded my goal to our small circle of friends. I put zucchini into chocolate cakes at birthday parties. I created a menu dedicated to the enigmatic and oft-hated eggplant. I pushed my friends’ palates and they still returned to my dining room table for more. A good friend once asserted that he did not eat – and I quote – purple dirt circles. He meant beets. I accepted the challenge and cooked an entire dinner around those purple dirt circles, inviting him, his family, and a few other friends to my table. We ate roast...