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Jul 10, 20203 min read
Bread: A Staple And Art Form
Melissa Wenzel wants you to eat local, artisan foods – bread, specifically. Whether you make it from scratch, pickup from a friend or...
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Jul 1, 20203 min read
A freedom-focused soul food grocer
"This all started with an idea and a dream of simply being free.” Those aren’t always the words one associates with the opening of a...
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Jun 29, 20201 min read
Spark Joy
I need joy right now. 💛 And this man sparked that for me — a body and spirit nourished by Conscious Kitchen. Food does more than enable...
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Jun 22, 20201 min read
VOTE
I did something today… 📽📡💻 And filmed eight hours straight for something which matters *that* much to me. All of the fixings for a...
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Jun 21, 20201 min read
History Lessons Through Food
Did your pops pass on a recipe? Chef Jerome Grant is not only sharing dishes with his two kids, but also rich culture and history through...
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Jun 20, 20203 min read
History Lessons Through Food
Oxtail, peppers and allspice. Those are the flavors of Jerome Grant’s childhood, stirring memories, marking moments, telling the stories...
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Jun 19, 20202 min read
No One Is Free Until Everyone IS Free
I celebrate Black joy, Black excellence, Black achievement, Black liberation, Black humanity, Black culture, Black futures, Blackness. I...
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Jun 15, 20201 min read
Plant Some Shit
I’m following Ron Finley’s advice to #PlantSomeShit. It might not be the mother f**cking kale he speaks about often, but my...
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Jun 13, 20204 min read
The Gangsta Gardener
“Y’all want to plant some mother f**king kale?” That is what a billboard reads over Sunset Boulevard next to the face of Ron Finley —...
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Jun 12, 20202 min read
50,000 Meals
50,000 Conscious Kitchen meals served by our community for our community in our community with our community during Covid. When you seek...
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Jun 10, 20202 min read
Strength in Solidarity
I am not doing anywhere near enough. I own that. Nothing is or can ever be “enough,” yet I pledge to do more, engage, listen, show up,...
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Jun 9, 20202 min read
Recommitting
There is no guide, no checklist, no manual, no playbook for racial justice, let alone anti-racism. "While such resources aren't always a...
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Jun 8, 20202 min read
Working With Wolf It Down
I’m using my personal and professional platforms to focus on, stand for and center black lives and racial justice...
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Jun 7, 20201 min read
Children Give Hope
Dear Children… YOU are brave, you are beautiful, you are important, you are special, you are powerful. You are our inspiration. You give...
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Jun 7, 20204 min read
A Hero Among the Ashes
“Let my building burn. Justice needs to be served. Put those officers in jail.” Hafsa Islam recounts the words of her father, Ruhel...
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Jun 6, 20201 min read
Be The Change
Two days ago, a Mill Valley police officer explained to me why the ‘carotid hold’ was “an appropriate restraint” because it “restricts...
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Jun 5, 20201 min read
Justice For Breonna
Use your voice on Breonna’s birthday. Because you have one and hers was permanently silenced when she was murdered by police in her home...
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Jun 4, 20206 min read
Take Action
TAKE ACTION HERE AND NOW! Our Mill Valley mayor dismissed Black Lives Matter as an issue that is “not of immediate local importance”...
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Jun 3, 20204 min read
We Must Rise
Black lives matter. But what am I doing concretely to ensure that is more than a hashtag, more than a rallying cry, more than a black...
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Jun 1, 20201 min read
40,000 Meals
When we say we served our 40,000th meal today, we don’t just mean 40,000 plates of food during Conscious Kitchen’s Covid response. We...
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