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Back in April, we began hearing horror stories about Covid-19 running rampant through the country’s meatpacking plants. Unwilling to disrupt the flow of cheap meat and profits, industrial slaughterhouses refused to shutter even temporarily, establish social distancing, or furnish their employees with adequate safety gear. Nobody seemed to care about the mostly immigrant workforce—except for their families.
Read MoreTall Grass Food Box began as a response to the coronavirus pandemic. And it isn’t designed to benefit just one farm: it’s a collective effort to give Black farmers direct access to consumers amidst a global crisis.
Read MoreHere is a pair of poems about cooking, growing things, and maybe what it means to be alive, by Carl Atiya Swanson.
Read MoreJason Alexannder, Managing Partner/Restaurant and Wine Director of lauded Bay Area restaurants The Progress and State Bird Provisions, writes a personal essay on the impact of the global pandemic.
Read MoreThe first in a series of personal 25-minute writings by Meal Editor-At-Large Mecca Bos.
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