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Islip school cook on Food Network tonight

Garden tour

Even as the person responsible for serving lunch to about 1,000 teenagers a day as head of the kitchen at Islip High School, Arlene Leggio aims to please everyone.

But there is one complaint she doesn’t mind at all.

“If they are cranky when they go home in the afternoon and their parents ask them what’s wrong, I hope they say, ‘I just didn’t know what to choose for lunch today,’” she...

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