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Aug 23, 2023 8:20 am
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Adam Matlock.
Adam Matlock, executive director of the nonprofit Winnett Food Forest in Hamden, was moving from garden bed to garden bed with an empty bin. Soon, that bin and another one like it would be filled with fresh greens and a few tomatoes — part of the week’s harvest from a new approach to growing food that leans hard on community and sustainability.
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Maya McFadden |
Aug 4, 2023 11:58 am
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Troup's summer meals backbone: Cafeteria worker Robin Jones.
Mother of three Falilat Enny stopped by Troup School to visit a friend who her kids call “grandma” — because she has loved to serve Enny’s three girls free meals for breakfast and lunch all summer.
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Asher Joseph and Mia Cortés Castro |
Aug 1, 2023 8:51 am
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A taco truck customer picks up a piña colada at Long Wharf's "Food Truck Paradise."
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Mark Aronson’s ivory suit, complete with woven tan sun hat, did not stop him from indulging in the dripping tanginess of three birria tacos during a lunchtime visit to Long Wharf’s Food Truck Paradise.
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Jul 27, 2023 8:57 am
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Nieda Abbas encouraging guests to dig in at Tuesday's celebration.
Local bakers, daycare leaders, and healthcare providers came together to celebrate the success of a downtown cafe’s efforts to get New Haven employers to hire refugee and immigrant women.
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Allan Appel |
Jul 26, 2023 9:47 am
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The line was five deep for the nectarines, peaches, and corn, and by about 40 minutes later those items were sold out – although there was a lot of other bounty left – tomatillos, chives, blueberries, collards, cilantro, and kale.
That’s why by the end of the harvest in the fall, the line will be 20 deep.
The Lacy family with Mayor Elicker and Development Deputy Cathy Graves on Thursday.
Trays of meatballs, mac ‘n’ cheese, wings, and more wings lined the countertop of Linwood “Woody” Lacy’s restaurant for a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating Woody’s Wings’ new location in the heart of downtown.
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Thomas Breen |
Jun 23, 2023 2:15 pm
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At the Greenwich Ave. C-Town, now a Key Food.
A Kimberly Square supermarket won its final needed city approval to construct a roughly 3,300 square foot addition — as part of an expansion project that will also see a larger parking lot and a knocked-down house.
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Mia Cortés Castro |
Jun 20, 2023 10:57 am
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Lisseit Luna with a fresh batch of coconut ice cream.
As Julión Álvarez y su Norteño Banda played in the background, Ely Rey Azteca employee Lisseit Luna prepared a batch of coconut ice cream to sell at a recently opened Mexican- and Dominican-owned paletería in Fair Haven.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 14, 2023 9:29 am
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Baron Ramon Young.
A Michigan public school district child nutrition manager will be the city’s next top schools food official, thanks to a hire newly approved by the Board of Education.
Abdussabur (right) passing Dope N Delicious lunch ...
... as campaign supporters pass Black-business-boosting business cards.
As takeout containers filled with fried rice, mac and cheese, chicken wings, and salad changed hands — along with business cards promoting the work of New Haven-raised Black entrepreneurs — Shafiq Abdussabur detailed his vision for bringing back the small-business glory days of the Dixwell Avenue of his youth.
Key ingredients to the revival he pitched include collaboration, public safety, local hiring, and making sure City Hall supports locally sourced ventures as soon as they get off the ground.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 6, 2023 9:43 am
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Lila Kleppner: Not going to eat that? Into the compost it goes!
When Wilbur Cross High School senior Lila Kleppner saw a classmate walking toward the cafeteria trash bin, she leapt into action — with a five-gallon bucket in hand, intent on diverting that student’s food scraps from a landfill-bound pile to a community compost heap instead.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jun 1, 2023 1:41 pm
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Ice cream aplenty -- and alcohol verboten -- at Elena's on Orange.
A bustling East Rock ice cream shop won’t be offering wine on tap anytime soon — now that a legal agreement has reversed a prior approval permitting the storefront to sell booze in addition to soft serve.
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Maya McFadden |
May 24, 2023 9:01 am
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Kindergartner and classroom chef Aylanais learning with the help of local apizza.
After East Rock School kindergartener Aylanais cooked up a freshly illustrated “cheese pizza,” she topped it with broccoli, pineapple, pepperoni, and mushrooms for a tasty and very New Haven-spirited class lesson.
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Allan Appel |
May 23, 2023 9:57 am
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Jeremiah Redmond, Erin Martel, Maia Keillor at Monday's opening of Café J.
Coffee shops come and go but rare is the one whose staff is composed almost entirely of young adults with disabilities, has an inclusionary nonprofit mission, and a mezuzah affixed to the entryway.
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Laura Glesby |
May 10, 2023 1:22 pm
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Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz, choosing a carton of shitake mushrooms at the left, with Lorri Xu.
Browsing the vibrant vegetables inside Million Asian Market, Mayor Justin Elicker selected a bright purple eggplant and turned to the store’s co-owner, Lorri Xu.
He said in Mandarin that he wanted to make yuxiang qiezi, a garlicky eggplant dish that became his favorite meal when he lived in Taiwain. Xu advised him on the amount of Thai basil he would need — not too much — and retrieved an aromatic bag of the herb, which Elicker was happy to purchase.
A box of fig bars in the snack aisle of Edge of the Woods caught Hamita Sachar’s eye.
Sachar, vice-chair of gastroenterology at Yale Medical School, wasn’t looking for a nosh. She was looking at the words on the box.
She popped by the Whalley Avenue natural foods grocery Tuesday along with Connecticut U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal to make the case for passage of the first updating of food package labeling requirements in over three decades.
Marta Quinones loading up rescued food from Haven's Harvest.
Sister Luisa Villegas stopped at a Peck Street food rescue operation to fill her Toyota up with bags of avocados and several gallons of milk to help make sure that Fair Haven immigrants don’t go hungry — and that excess food doesn’t end up in a landfill.
A Peels & Wheels bin-full of compost: Coming soon to NHPS?
As New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) searches for a new food service director, the district is also looking to make some sustainability-centered changes to how it handles what doesn’t get eaten — including by introducing school-based composting programs.
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Lisa Reisman |
Apr 17, 2023 3:33 pm
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A shower of pink, for 50th straight year.
Valentina Simon doing her thing at Sunday's fest.
Amid a riot of pink blossoms, the scent of spring in the air, and the sounds of Airborne’s “Groovin’ on a Sunday Afternoon,” Valentina Simon leapt and spun and twirled in front of the bandstand, prompting others to join her.
Salsa's owner joins city officials to cut the ribbon ...
... on outdoor dining on Grand Ave.
Fair Haven diners can now enjoy chicken flautas on the sidewalk-adjacent patio of Grand Avenue’s Salsa’s Authentic Mexican Restaurant a month earlier than usual, thanks to the city’s expansion of outdoor dining season — which will extend year-round for qualifying businesses.
Vegans, beware. Cheesy school products get budget bump.
The city’s school board agreed to hand over extra cheese to a fromage contractor in a food-focused budget vote, prompting a debate around how much cheddar the district actually saves when choosing minimum-bid contracts that bulk up midyear.
