Cooking and Covid-19: Food’s Role in the Fight for Justice

Mary MacVean
5 min readJun 10, 2020

My heart and my head are exploding. I feel frightened, full of many overwhelming emotions. I’m deeply worried for the future of my country and so proud of the people who are stepping up to create the world they want to see, not waiting for established leaders but rather showing the way themselves on the streets of America.

I suppose I appreciate the streams of emails from organizations and companies that call out callous killings of Black Americans, promise to do better, to stand with Black Lives Matter and all the rest. But…

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Mary MacVean

Longtime food writer, now food grower. Journalist, reader, traveler