Regenerative Baking #29: Rae Gomes of Community Kitchen

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Rae Gomes discussing food policy and community-driven solutions in the food system.

The final episode of Season 3 features an incredible interview with Rae Gomes (@raegomes), the Executive Director of Community Kitchen, and a real food policy powerhouse. Community Kitchen ran a sliding-scale fine dining restaurant out of the Lower East Side Girls Club earlier this year, and gathered a ton of data from this pilot program, which they’re now reviewing in preparation for their next chapter of this very exciting project. Aside from Community Kitchen, Rae is the Founder & Principal of Cultivating Justice, through which she’s developed community-driven solutions like Root To Wellness, a food-as-medicine project bringing subsidized CSA programs to Central Brooklyn. She’s also the co-founder of Central Brooklyn Food Cooperative; a 2021 Urban Design Forum Fellow with a Food Equity focus; *and* was a member of Mayor Adams’ transition team for food policy. She also has a master’s in creative nonfiction. In this episode, we get into food hubs, why community fridges aren't the solution everyone thinks they are, who's really profiting off the food system, a ton of organizations all working to build a better food system, the challenges of bringing people into food policy…

People in this episode

Guest: Rae Gomes

Topics covered

• food policy
• community-driven solutions
• food equity
• fine dining
• food system challenges
• public restaurants

Keywords

• food policy
• community kitchen
• fine dining
• food equity
• food system
• public restaurants
• Root To Wellness

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Community Kitchen, Lower East Side Girls Club, Cultivating Justice, Central Brooklyn Food Cooperative

Books & works: Root To Wellness

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