The Community Kitchen is Coming to Chicago
06/04/20
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Community Kitchen, a new initiative by the some of the folks who put together Quarantine Times! The Community Kitchen is a food service program providing complementary box lunches to in-need residents, families and health care workers in Chicago.
Over the next month, starting this Monday, June 8, we will provide 200 meals a day, three times a week, to local senior housing complexes, food pantries, churches, hospitals and residents of our neighborhoods. Meals will be created by our team of chefs and industry friends. We will also be sourcing proteins and produce from local farms whenever possible, and Marz Community Taproom’s and Kimski’s kitchen facilities to produce these delicious meals.
The Community Kitchen also provides work to chefs, cooks, and front-of-house hospitality workers who have lost their businesses, full-time or part-time employment due to the pandemic. It’s our belief that re-purposing our kitchens to feed those in need, while keeping the supply lines from farmers and producers intact, is one way we can help during the ongoing crisis.
We want to increase our capacity to provide more meals to those in need and expand our ability to pay more people to work on this initiative. You can help fund future meals by donating to our non-profit. Please make a donation here: https://www.communitykitchenchicago.org/donate
Chefs and workers from Maria’s/Kimski and Marz Community Brewing will be working with our colleagues from Mom’s Chicago, Chi Quon, Loba Pastry, Wazwan Supper Club, Lakeshore Sports and Fitness, Thattu, Pizza Fried Chicken Ice Cream, Kasama, Knox Ave. BBQ, and other cooks and workers to prepare the first month of meals.
We will be using ingredients and supplies from the following companies and suppliers: Mick Klug, Slagel Farms, D'Artagnan, Closed Loop Farm, Backyard Farm, Nichols Farm, and Makowski Sausage.
This month, we will provide meals to Senior Suites of Bridgeport, Pilsen Food Pantry, First Lutheran Church of the Trinity, Resurrection Project, the Japanese American Services Committee, and others.
The Community Kitchen is a project between Public Media Institute, Marz Community Brewing Co., and Community of the Future Inc., the parent company of Kimski and Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar.