By Eneris Aymée Bernard Santos We all know the routine of cooking our daily meals: food gets cooked and leftovers are either refrigerated and forgotten or thrown away. Here is some “food” for thought: Americans discard about 150,000 tons of food every day. Rather than letting delicious food go to waste, why not reuse our […]
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Omaha Residents Return to their Ancestral Roots in Search of a Food Sovereignty
By Karlha Velásquez Rivas Humans have strayed from the nutritional makeup of hunter/gatherer or early agrarian societies. With industrialization and technological development, increases in processing protein and vegetables and the use of agrochemicals, cancer became more common, along with high rates of hypertension, high cholesterol and diabetes. In Omaha, a group of people and non-profit […]
GUATEMALAN RESTAURANT AND MLCDC’S MISSION STATEMENT
The Board of Directors of the Midlands Latino Community Development Corporation (MLCDC) adopted and approved the Mission Statement, “MLCDC provides Latinos with opportunities to generate economic growth by providing financial products, development services and community development that advances their ability to develop a sustainable future in the Midlands.” The same week, the MLCDC granted a […]