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Food Desert

A Museum, A Community, A Festival

Liz Neumark | Posted 10.20.2009 | New York

Read More: East Harlem, NYC Department of Health, New York City Housing Authority, El Museo Del Barrio, Upper East Side, Spanish Harlem, Museums, Food Desert, Hispanics, Julian Zugazagoitia, New York News
Liz Neumark

How interesting to embark on a project developing the menu for a museum whose surrounding neighborhood -- El Barrio -- has been described as a food desert.

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Latino Firm Opening Supermarket In Food Desert

Chicago Public Radio | Chip Mitchell | Posted 09.24.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Food Desert, Chicago Food Deserts, RincóN Capital, Grocery Stores, Back of the Yards, Chicago News

A Latino-led private-equity firm has agreed to open a supermarket in a Chicago area that's been labeled a food desert....

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Grocer, Can You Make a Profit?

Mari Gallagher | Posted 10.16.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Healthy Eating, Grocery Stores, Food Desert, Chicago Food Deserts, Obesity, Civil Rights, American Food Deserts, Chicago News
Mari Gallagher

We spend billions of dollars in this country treating diseases that could be moderated or prevented by better and healthier food access and choice. A great number of these treatments are for the uninsured and take place in the emergency room. This is not cost-effective.

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