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Food Pantry To-Be Finds A Fresh Start
Mother Helen Carr (center) with Babatunde Akinjobi and Marcus Harvin. Marcus Harvin is working on a fresh start: for the food in his home community of Newhallville, and for formerly incarcerated...
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NHPS Food Chief Seeks Shorter Cafeteria Lines
NHPS Food Services Director Baron Young: Backing up student ID numbers will avoid cafeteria traffic jams. Faster lunch lines. More student feedback. Less wasted food. New Haven Public Schools (NHPS)...
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Everyone Needs Help — Even The Helpers
Jamilah Rasheed at the Hill pop-up food pantry. By the time I arrived at the pop-up New Haven Inner City Enrichment (NICE) Center Food Pantry, 40 people were standing in line on a blustery Saturday...
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Cross Bakeshop Gets Meal Out The Door
Junior Klever Chilel practices omelet making. Friday's fresh blackberry scones and brown sugar banana muffins. Genesis Correa flipped a farmer’s omelet onto the grill, Damani Wheeler cut thick slices...
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fREsh-taurant Community Kitchen Launches
fREsh-taurant crew at Pitts Chapel; Marcus Harvin, in yellow shirt, left center. (Updated) You can speak all you want into somebody’s ear. If their stomach is growling, they can’t hear it. Those were...
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Pitch Competition Showcases Local Brands
The Gorilla Lemonade team at the Big Connecticut Food Event. In a spirited battle, lemonade and empanadas fell just short of kids’ frozen pancakes, non-vinegary kombucha, and grassfed yogurt.The scene...
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Feds Grant City $3.4M For Health Equity
Lactation consultant Dionne Lowndes: Working to destigmatize and accommodate breastfeeding with renewed REACH funding. Fair Haven doctors will soon be able to “prescribe” fruits and vegetables to...
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Marcus Harvin Pivots To The Streets
Marcus Harvin and volunteers deliver meals to Varick Warming Center. “This was our vision in prison,” said Marcus Harvin, as he led his team with boxes of meals past a queue of people waiting for the...
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Ever-Expanding Pita Pocket Stuffed
It fits! Eddie's Everything Extravaganza, prize item (above) at Whalley's newly opened Lea's Falafelhaus. Would all those fixings fit into that palm-plus-sized pocket of flexible flatbread?“We’re gonna...
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NHA Composters Get To Work Saving Food Scraps — & The Planet
Student composters Akira Torres, Zuhal Jamal, and Juliette Bolanos... ...and their life-saving food scrap stats. 11 New Haven Academy (NHA) students have helped to divert 3,285 pounds of food scraps...
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