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Broken Bread
Different Approaches to Improving Access to Healthy Food Options
Los Angeles is a city of abundance, yet nutritious food is hard to find in low-income neighborhoods. Roy visits the largest organic produce warehouse in Los Angeles with Olympia Auset of SÜPRMARKT, where she finds contents for her clients’ produce boxes. While Auset is in the early stages of her journey to nourish people, Earl’s, a restaurant in the Crenshaw District, has been working with customers to make healthier choices for more than 30 years. What started as a hot dog cart for owners Cary and Duane Earl, has expanded into a brick-and-mortar hub for plant-based fare and healthy options for a community often battling diabetes and other diet-related diseases.
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