Food

Detroit Community Fridge continues to tackle food insecurity one person at a time

Detroit Community Fridge, a grassroots mutual aid project started during the pandemic, has grown to manage four fridges with food…

3 years ago

Pandemic grocery store anxiety made an attorney learn how to eat from the land

Filling Our Plates: Hundreds of new home gardeners in Detroit took food sovereignty into their own hands, with the support…

3 years ago

With no stove, no car, no money for rent, a single mom found a neighborhood lifeline

Filling Our Plates: Mutual aid is getting funds to people in need in vulnerable communities like Southwest Detroit -- and…

3 years ago

Filling Our Plates: Detroit food security innovations

Filling Our Plates profiles Detroiters who faced food insecurity during the pandemic -- and the innovations they and local groups…

3 years ago

This retired hospital worker started a free food fair on her block — with food that would have gone into a landfill

Filling Our Plates: A Detroit nonprofit is using an Uber-like app to connect businesses with small amounts of food to…

3 years ago

She lost her job while on maternity leave. A free online grocery store kept her family fed.

Filling Our Plates: How an innovative Detroit emergency food distribution model empowered recipients through choice.

3 years ago

Hajime Sato opens Sozai in Clawson, leveling up Metro Detroit’s sushi game

Listen, if you're going to open a sushi restaurant down the street from the legendary Noble Fish in Clawson, you…

3 years ago

Green Boots garden provides horticultural therapy for disabled veterans in Detroit

Travis Peters runs Green Boots, a garden that provides food, employment and therapeutic outdoor space for veterans in Detroit.

4 years ago

Chef Maxcel Hardy feeds Detroit’s essential workers while teaching culinary arts

When food that he couldn’t serve piled up at his restaurant COOP Detroit, Chef Maxcel Hardy and his culinary students…

4 years ago

These are the recipes Detroit chefs are cooking all winter long

Ready to brighten up your day (or someone else's)? Try these Detroit chefs' winter recipes, easy enough to make at…

4 years ago