Education and event spaces for foodies with a plan

Photo by Kate McCann by Alex Jones These businesses double as kitchen and dining room: They provide a clean, certified and inspected space for food entrepreneurs at the production side of the supply chain, and then serve up a delicious final product to excited eaters in a beautiful space.  City KitchenLocation: Center CityYear founded: 2014

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Shared commercial kitchens for food entrepreneurs

by Alex Jones Kitchen shares give food entrepreneurs access to low-cost, commercial-scale equipment at a location with flexible hours. So whether you want to be a private chef, a caterer or a producer of a commercial product, these kitchens will help you get a food business going. They can even assist with marketing, networking and

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Balboa is the place if you want to show off your cooking chops

Restaurateur for a Night by Alex Jones Itching to try your hand at a big dinner, but don’t have the kitchen facilities or seating you need to host a big night? Balboa is a contemporary, refined space that hides on a residential block in Fishtown—but it hosts some of the city’s most innovative chefs for

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Food Underground shines a spotlight on the back of the house

Photo by A Few Fishies Star For a Day by Alex Jones After cooking at top restaurants in Tel Aviv and Philadelphia, chef Ari Miller struck out on his own with Food Underground, a pop-up event and private dinner party service. Book him for your next party, or attend a Cooks’ Canvas dinner, in which

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Hands-on learning for life at the Culinary Literacy Center

Photo by Ryan Brandenberg Beyond the Cookbook by Alex Jones Tucked away on the fourth floor of the Free Library’s Parkway Central branch, you won’t find the rare book collection. Instead, hidden behind an unassuming door you’ll discover a gleaming, commercial-grade culinary classroom. It’s a nontraditional space for a library, but library coordinator Suzanna Urminska

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The arc of history is long, and it bends toward mother nature

Illustration by Corey Brickley Blind Justice by Jerry Silberman Question: Is environmental justice available under our law? The Right Question: Is environmental justice the same thing as justice for the environment? We usually think of justice as the concept of fairness and equity: that everyone should be treated with the same respect, given the same

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Historian Carl Zimring believes that the concept of whiteness has been missing from environmental justice discussions

Illustration by Kailey Whitman Whitewashing History interview by Heather Shayne Blakeslee For centuries, Americans have conflated whiteness with cleanliness. It’s so thoroughly ingrained in our culture that even during the 2007 presidential election, Joe Biden tried—and failed spectacularly—to compliment presidential candidate Barack Obama by describing him as “clean and articulate.” In his book “Clean and

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Your best friend in a mad, mad world

The Ice Cream Man by Heather Shayne Blakeslee It’s hard not to feel as though the entire country has gone crazy. The barrage of violence at home and abroad and the continued struggle for civil rights has everyone on edge. The feeling that the truth is on permanent vacation has added to the Orwellian overtones

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