Sometimes graphics speak louder than words. Ever looked around your adopted community and wondered how much families spend on dining out vs. grocery shopping? Campus Kitchens look at factors like these weekly as they decide who to serve, what’s on the menu, and how to infuse a meal drop off with nutrition. Recently, Flowingdata.com, a [...]
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Send Campus Kitchen Partner – the Mission Continues – to a MLB All-star Game
Posted in June 9th, 2010
Now that summer has arrived for many of us, and activities have slowed, why not take a second out of the day to vote for a Campus Kitchen partner in a service recognition contest? The Mission Continues’ Eric Greitens was nominated as one of three finalists for the St. Louis Cardinals (each major league team [...]
The Campus Kitchen at St. Louis University Gets Art-full
Posted in June 3rd, 2010
One of the earliest supporters of pay-what-you-can restaurants will make his mark in the food world again, decades after his lifetime, via the Campus Kitchen at St. Louis University at an event June 5. The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis came to coordinator Jenny Bird with a unique idea for a fundraiser/community event: the museum [...]
Campus Kitchen Colleges make President’s Service Honor Roll
Posted in March 3rd, 2010
Over half of schools that partner with The Campus Kitchens Project – to bring student-led hunger relief to their adopted communities – received the distinction of the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, released at the end of February. Of CKP’s 26 partner campuses, 15 made a higher education community service distinction as [...]
Pavo is Spanish for Turkey: Turkeypalooza, by the Numbers
Posted in December 4th, 2009
by Jasmine Touton in
Campus Kitchens across the nation were stuffed with activity this Thanksgiving for the annual Turkeypalooza project, a hunger relief initiative mobilizing kitchens to feed thousands on Turkey Day. The Campus Kitchen at St. Louis University tacked on seven extra cooking shifts to roast 20 whole turkeys, which, when coupled with 20 precooked turkey breasts, served [...]
Guest blog: It’s not about the food
Posted in February 16th, 2009
by Liz Whitehurst in
Guest blogger Tim Cosentino, coordinator at CKSLU, writes about poverty of relationships and how CKP can feed the whole person. The coordinators of our nationally staffed Campus Kitchens recently had a conference call where we learned about a DC Central Kitchen program called First Helping. First Helping is a street-level outreach program that uses food as [...]