The Works’ mobile grocery hits the streets in North Memphis
The Works president Roshun Austin speaks at a ribbon cutting for its Mobile Food Grocery. The nonprofit organized with Rick James, president of Castle Retail Group, to stock their mobile grocery. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
Customers purchase groceries from the Mobile Food Grocery. The goal for The Works is to aid Memphians who live in food deserts. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
A local nonprofit’s mobile grocery store launched its first service on Wednesday, Oct. 12, in the Klondike neighborhood of North Memphis.
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North Memphis Klondike Klondike-Smokey City food desert food distributionJoshua Carlucci
Joshua Carlucci is a writer and food journalist from Los Banos, California. He holds a BA in English from the University of California, Berkeley, a culinary diploma from the Institute of Culinary Education, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Memphis, where he was managing editor of Pinch. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Brussels Review, Redivider, Gravy, EatingWell, Southern Living, and elsewhere. He is a staff writer at Brooklyn-based food and beverage industry magazine, StarChefs.Find more of his work on his website, joshuacarlucci.com.
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