U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy brings carrots and onions to New Haven’s Loaves and Fishes food pantry.
Inside a box of groceries at the food pantry.
Free us from our paperwork, and we can feed people more safely in this crisis.
This was the message from New Haven’s Loaves and Fishes to U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy on Thursday. Murphy stopped at the food pantry on Olive Street to ask New Haven food distributors for the needy how the federal government can help them during the coronavirus pandemic.
The first day of seniors-only hours produced pre-dawn lines like this one outside Stop & Shop stores.
Sales boomed this morning as Stop & Shop began seniors-only hours. The results of the new policy for customers like me, there to take advantage of hours (6 a.m. to 7:30 a.m.) set aside for those over 60 –- a Coronavirus version of the Early Bird Special –- were not so healthy.
The Hamden store was overrun with customers, the aisles were jammed with traffic, the register lines ran forever, the manager hustled from checkout clerk to checkout clerk trying to speed the cashiering process while seniors queued up as they did in the old days – say, a month ago – before we knew we were especially at risk for a pandemic.
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Mar 18, 2020 8:28 am
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Justine Stephan and Betty Alford at John C. Daniels Tuesday.
Justine Stephan and Betty Alford are stepping up as providers in a world turned upside down by the coronavirus pandemic, where schools are no longer places of learning but rather places to prepare and pick-up much needed food for hungry families.
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Mar 16, 2020 4:26 pm
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The hand-off in Hamden …
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… and in Fair Haven.
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Khalilah Dann (with Uriel): Picking up learning materials, not meals.
The effort to feed needy children during indefinite COVID-19-sparked school closings got off to a slow but in some places steady start Monday in New Haven and Hamden.
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Mar 13, 2020 12:54 pm
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Homeless patrons gather outside Sunrise for meals to go.
Within 24 hours, a crucial meal-provider for the homeless found a way to keep free breakfasts flowing while helping stem the spread of COVID-19 — even if that means sacrificing some of a sense of community in the short run.
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Mar 13, 2020 8:29 am
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Free bowls of ramen at Menya-Gumi.
Customers line up outside of the new Orange Street restaurant.
Three hundred free bowls of ramen at a new Japanese restaurant on Orange Street trumped local lunch-goers’ concerns about going out to eat during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, as local restaurateurs scrambled to prepare for tough months ahead as people hunker down at home and public events are canceled.
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Feb 28, 2020 1:27 pm
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Members of the audience taste Terry’s recipe.
While cooking up a savory carrot soup, nationally known “vegan eco-chef” and cookbook author Bryant Terry diced up a history lesson on the flavors and ingredients of African American food for Black History Month.
Alisa Bowens-Mercado (above) at launch of her new beer (below).
Tashawna Peete does not usually drink beer. But as she sat with her wife-to-be, Kim Jenkins, at Te Amo Tequila Bar & Tacos on Temple Street on Saturday, she decided the brand new Rhythm Blue might be her go-to lager.
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Feb 24, 2020 4:06 pm
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Chris Pacheco of Seacoast Mushrooms sells a bunch of blue oyster.
The flavors of seven sweet and savory food business ventures were sampled on the edge of Wooster Square Saturday at a Food Business Accelerator Farmers’ Market Showcase.
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Feb 12, 2020 12:01 am
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The former Elks Lodge 25 at 522-528 State St. Below: Jared Keith shows off the new gym’s facade.
A New York City-based architect plans to convert the former Elks Lodge on State Street into a new gym on one side of the building, and a new restaurant on the other.
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Jan 30, 2020 5:47 pm
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The Lacys, Cathy Graves, Mayor Elicker, and Alder Richard Furlow.
Forty different glazes for chicken wings — ranging from mango habanero to garlic parmesan — are just not enough for fledgling and creative restauranteurs Lachelle and Linwood Lacy.
They have a still-secret 41st sauce coming, combining the best of the previous 40. It is still in the research stage, meaning only family members get to try it.
Glazes and wings galore will also be ready for upcoming Super Bowl weekend.
Quinoa, brown rice, roasted brussels sprouts, and veggie meatballs were on Mayor Justin Elicker’s agenda Tuesday afternoon, along with a main course of promoting small business in New Haven.
Tekenya works as a supervisor at ShopRite. She can’t always afford to shop there on the wages she earns, so she sometimes ends up at a food pantry to pick up groceries — that were donated by ShopRite.
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Jan 17, 2020 2:55 pm
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Honoree Batson with proud daughter Whitney.
In her work as a pre-school teacher in Hamden, Allison Batson discovered many of the families of her kids were food insecure.
That, along with her faith, led her to found “Dinner for a Dollar,” a communal supper that now feeds about 60 people, including the homeless, isolated seniors looking for social contact, and just plain neighbors, every Friday night 52 weeks a year at the Grace and St. Peter’s Church on Dixwell Avenue in northern Hamden.
Batson has never missed a Dinner for a Dollar night in eight years. In her spare time (!) she volunteers at warming centers in Hamden and helps on the homeless front through service on the board of Columbus House.
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Jan 17, 2020 8:45 am
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Hill South Management Team Communications Director Angela Hatley announces grocery store gift card idea.
Over 100 food insecure seniors in the Hill are slated to receive $50 worth of free help each with their grocery store bills thanks to the neighborhood management team’s decision about how to use its annual “participatory budgeting” allowance.
Nebyat Shewaye taps kombucha at his new “farm-to-counter” eatery.
Two secret recipes produced this aromatic pan of “fir-fir” beckoning to visitors inside the bright confines of downtown’s new “farm-to-counter” restaurant.
Poreyah Benton at work in the mobile Vegan Ahava kitchen.
Plant-based cooking in the Elm City.
It was Thursday, so the orders were coming in for the meatless, dairy-free “Philly Cheesesteak” inside New Haven’s newest — and first vegan — food truck.
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Dec 20, 2019 1:33 pm
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Loubabatou Harris rose by 5 a.m. First she prayed; then she hit the road to Hartford to pick up a delivery of meat. It was time to stock up for the holidays on food that many of her African-born customers remember from the motherland — and can find only at Motherland Market.
Romeo Simeone cutting a block of pecorino. Below: The many cheeses of Romeo & Cesare’s Gourmet Shoppe.
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After over three decades of serving chicken marsala, sausage and peppers, fig and prosciutto pizza, and many, many more homemade Italian delicacies out of its Orange Street storefront, Romeo & Cesare’s Gourmet Shoppe will close for good on Christmas Eve.
Oxtail to go, with rice, beans, vegetables, and plantains
City’s Cathy Graves with Stone at opening.
Oxtail, curry goat already drawing loyal customers to Andrea Stone’s lifelong dream business. A spicy secret was revealed at the formal ribbon-cutting.
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Dec 5, 2019 4:57 pm
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It’s a Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. Suzanne Hudd backs her Honda HRV into the loading dock at ShopRite in Hamden Plaza.
The metal door opens, and she is met with a pile of boxes containing slightly bruised apples, malformed carrots and other produce. The various vegetables and fruits are edible, but not wanted by shoppers.
With the help of produce manager Kenneth Lynch, Hudd packs the 25 boxes into her Honda and brings it to people who don’t care whether an onion isn’t in season or if an avocado is too soft.
