The Cookshops of the present

[Young Master Smeet]

http://theconversation.com/heres-a-better-alternative-to-food-banks-subsidised-national-kitchens-37928

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So, let’s revive communal dining instead. Let’s have local authorities subsidising cheap cafes on-site or next door to food banks where people can get a cheap nutritious meal or simply an on-site kitchen where people can learn to prepare food as a meal. Let’s force supermarkets to manage the donation of fresh produce more efficiently, providing fresh fruit and vegetables rather than just non-perishables. Donating non-perishables is so much easier for supermarkets and hits waste targets easily, but fresh produce is where the waste really lies. This would improve nutrition and get rid of a few fat kids plugged full of carbohydrates and sugar.

this seems to be what we are reduced to, yet, as the article notes, the original version was ideologically constrained to 'make a profit'.  Children are starving, yet the God of the market must be served.

(And, yes, malnourished as the discussion of Junkfood children neglects to understand, high energy yield cheap food is a sign of poverty).

[alanjjohnstone]

Waitrose…free tea or coffee…Or it used to be…now you have to buy a cake or sandwich…apparently so popular too many were hogging the tables for too long for the freebieI don't know why it says its a revival of communal dining…haven't restaurants and pubs always been that…except not free…the derivation of term public house shows the roots of them…And as a someone who has travelled  i have been to places where it is simply someone's front room opened up to the public for meals and/or drinks…the origin of those public houses… and then there are "guest houses", letting strangers stay…

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