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Baking Homemade Bread Becomes a Public Good
Community Loaves volunteers Megan Adams, left, and her mother, Shera Adams, donate their loaves to St. Leo’s Food Bank in Tacoma, Washington.
Photo from Community Loaves
The Seattle-based Community Loaves project enlists home bakers to help those facing food insecurity during the pandemic.
Feb 25, 2021
The irony hit Katherine Kehrli, the associate dean of Seattle Culinary Academy, when one of the COVID-19 pandemic’s successive waves of closures flattened restaurants: Many of her culinary students were themselves food insecure. She saw cooks, bakers, and chefs-in-training lose the often-multiple jobs that they needed simply to eat.