Taste Test This: ‘Coronavirus Crisis: Snapshot of Atlanta’

This post originally appeared on Rolling Stone and was published April 16, 2020. A preview is available below.

A Co-op Continues On

“Today, I’m the only one here sorting the food and making up the boxes that will go out to our co-op members. There’s no one else,” says Spanga Gwabeni, director of the Urban Recipe Food Co-op. The co-op is an essential source of food security for its members who all work together to sort, organize, and portion out the food equitably.“Normally we’d have up to 50 people in this room working to sort and distribute the food,” says Gwabeni. “However, since the pandemic, we’ve had to find new ways to distribute. Currently, we are taking boxes of food directly to the homes of co-op members. We are also working on mailing the boxes of food out to those who are shut-ins and to those without access to reliable transportation. We will make sure people won’t go without food during this hard time. We will continue to do this work as long as we can.”

Johnathon Kelso for Rolling Stone

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