We love live music. We love food. We love the annual live music and food benefit for D.C. Central Kitchen at the 9:30 Club. We want you to go. The...
The National Park Service delivered 600 pounds of frozen venison earlier this week to D.C. Central Kitchen (DCCK), which will distribute the meat to D...
D.C.-based chef and PBS star Jose Andres was on hand at DC Central Kitchen yesterday when the Washington Wizards basketball team spent the afternoon p...
Calling for a "delicious revolution," Alice Waters was a main draw at Saturday night's Sips & Suppers, a benefit raising money for D.C. Central Kitchen and Martha's Table. The mother of the slow food movement advocated "slow food ideas" -- and said that starts with providing free school lunch.
WASHINGTON -- Local luminaries paid tribute Monday night to Robert Egger, the founder of the 24-year old D.C. Central Kitchen who has moved to Los An...
How can any candidate, for any office, in a time when our country must grow our economy, not mention our country's third biggest employer? Because, like many Americans, they think nonprofits don't create anything of value.
Despite a troubled political system and a struggling economy, do average citizens have the power to create positive change within, not only their lives, but also the lives of others?
WASHINGTON -- More than seventy local events are scheduled for Wednesday, otherwise known as Food Day. From house parties to film screenings to re...
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Apparently, if you want to eat a piece of ham off Padma Lakshmi's body, the going rate is $1,000. That number was established Monday night in Wash...
The Fourth of July is a celebration of America's independence. But America's battered economy has left more of our neighbors more dependent on public benefits and private charity than we have seen since the Great Depression.
WASHINGTON -- From the outside, there appeared to be nothing special happening Sunday evening inside a simple brick building on Grace Street NW, a nar...
By Anna Salinas Street Sense Freddie Smith was determined to stay free. Newly released from a prison sentence in D.C. in 2008, he had been in and ...
WASHINGTON -- With just six hours before its deadline, Trixie Films secured $40,000 in Kickstarter funding to film a documentary about D.C. Central Ki...
For Wal-Mart to grow, it has to turn to urban areas. Not because of some moral epiphany, but because of the bottom line. The "food deserts" Wal-Mart wants to occupy lie on top of deep reserves of customers.
WASHINGTON -- Earlier this summer, D.C. Central Kitchen launched its Healthy Corners program, which provides corner stores with low-cost fresh fruit a...
Campus Kitchens is based on a very simple idea: that you can take existing resources (food, people, facilities) and re-organize them to feed more people for less money... while also training men and women for culinary jobs.
D.C. is undergoing a transformation. Some call it a renaissance. Bold new restaurant concepts supplant stodgy steak houses. And culinary entrepreneurs bring dynamism to the market with novel concepts.
Nonprofits are not adorable, cute, little organizations that help the needy. At least that's how chief executive of D.C. Central Kitchen Mike Curtin p...
Robert Egger, founder of the DC Central Kitchen and the Campus Kitchens Project, has a unique approach to charity work, which came to him the first ti...
Yet, the image of a modest table where families gather is more than just a symbol of modern-day angst. It is also being rediscovered as the venue where bonds are reaffirmed and where breaking bread actually breaks down barriers.
What is it about our relationship to food that's changed so drastically since the Depression-era hoarding of our parents or grandparents?
Despite a massive blizzard that left much of the northeast under a blanket of snow, staff and volunteers for the DC Central Kitchen in Washington came...
