Filling grocery gaps
02-01-2008
Cities take on their own food deserts, where Twinkies are easier to buy than tomatoes. Successes include Philadelphia's Fresh Food Financing Initiative, which has placed supermarkets in poor urban areas and refrigerators in corner stores; and in Troy, N.Y., a mobile fruits and vegetables market that delivers to low-income neighborhoods.
Tags: Adewale Troutman, Ana Diez-Roux, Bruce Traughber, Capital District Gardens, Chicago, David Adler, Dee Bowling, Detroit, Food Marketing Institute, Fresh Food Financing Initiative, ice cream, Jessie Caldwell, liquor stores, Louisville, Louisville Metro Health Department, Lower 9th Ward, Mari Gallagher, New Orleans, Philadelphia, potato chips, Prevention Research Center, Shalonda Philpot, soda, Stephen Matthews, The (Louisville) Courier-Journal, The Food Trust, Todd Turner, Troy, Tulane University, University of Michigan School of Public Health
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