On camera, the guests hold up the contents of their pots and pans to be checked by Noura while children and pets flit by in the background.One of the silver linings to come out of Covid's many dark clouds is the way people adapt to the restrictions caused by the disease. When our usual activities are curtailed, we find new opportunities. New ways of doing things. The Virtual … [Read more...] about More real than reality TV – the virtual community kitchen
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Covid inspires a can-do response to old problem
It’s Friday, not quite ten o’clock on a wet and windy spring morning. The University car park is busy with traffic for a drive-through Covid jag. A younger queue is gathering outside Maggie’s, the Students' Union café, for a different boost to healthy survival. They wait, in a well-spaced line, with shopping bags. Hair and scarves blowing in a strong south-westerly. You can’t … [Read more...] about Covid inspires a can-do response to old problem
How to end food poverty?
There is enough surplus food to end food poverty in the UK. But where is the money to get that food where it is needed? This is a question raised in conversation with Mike Hartley director of commercial and trading services for the Cyrenians. It’s a newly created post indicating an urgent new sense of direction for the Scottish charity set up more than fifty years ago to … [Read more...] about How to end food poverty?