In what is clearly the high point of his “Food Revolution” series, Jamie Oliver stages a “flash mob” cookathon at Marshall University. Dance students saute garlic, spring onions, chilis, ginger, sliced beef, snow peas, bean sprouts, and cooked egg noodles, in a choreographed celebration of cooking. Dollops of sesame oil and soy sauce precede the final squeeze of a lime, executed to the beat of DNC’s “Jungle Flames.”

Jamie Oliver, glowing with missionary zeal, exclaims “brilliant!” And the flash mob “happening” helps lure townspeople to the woks set up outside of “Jamie’s Kitchen” in Huntington, WV. But what does food theatrics have to do with altering the nutrition of school lunches?