from scratch
近くの街の小学校の給食で、アレルギーをもった児童の悲しい事故が起きたばかりなので、タイムリーとはいえませんが、Washington Postが日本の給食制度について取り上げていました。start from scratchは「最初から、ゼロからのスタート」ということでよく知られているフレーズです。
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/A30/20120202/1328157403
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/A30/20120926/1348656668
しかし、makeと共起するときにはもうひとつ「原材料から作る」となります。それぞれチェックしておいてください。（UG）
On Japan’s school lunch menu: A healthy meal, made from scratch
In TOKYO — In Japan, school lunch means a regular meal, not one that harms your health. The food is grown locally and almost never frozen. There’s no mystery in front of the meat. From time to time, parents even call up with an unusual question: Can they get the recipes?
“Parents hear their kids talking about what they had for lunch,” said Tatsuji Shino, the principal at Umejima Elementary School in Tokyo, “and kids ask them to re-create the meals at home.”
Japan takes seriously both its food and its health and, as a result, its school lunches are a point of national pride — not a source of dismay. As other countries, including the United States, struggle to design school meals that are healthy, tasty and affordable, Japan has all but solved the puzzle, using a system that officials here describe as utterly common sense.
In the United States, where obesity rates have tripled over the past three decades, new legislation championed by Michelle Obama has pushed schools to debut menus with controversial calorie restrictions. But even the healthiest choices are generally provided by large agri-food companies, cooked off site, frozen and then reheated, and forced to compete in cafeterias with all things fried, salty and sweet.
Schools in Japan, by contrast, give children the sort of food they’d get at home, not at a stadium. The meals are often made from scratch. They’re balanced but hearty, heavy on rice and vegetables, fish and soups. The meals haven’t changed much in four decades.
