MUCS Kitchen

The MUCS Kitchen is a community space and food security resource where people gather, cook and dine together. On Thursday nights, the kitchen hosts a Community Restaurant open to the public. We aim to prepare nutritious and tasty meals that are accessible to everybody in the neighborhood. Using food supplied by the Zero Food Waste Network, and fresh organic produce from nearby community gardens, the MUCS kitchen offers nutritious, sustainable and inexpensive dining.

MUCS values empowerment and self-sufficiency, providing a welcoming space that gives its members an opportunity to socialize while sharing practical skills such as food preparation and cooking. The kitchen also enables MUCS to create partnerships with other organizations in the area, such as Project 10, the NDG Community Council, the Permaculture Guild and the Afghan Women's Collective. In turn, the kitchen builds and strengthens NDG's resource network.

The MUCS kitchen also hosts popular education workshops. For these events, MUCS invites experts from within and without the organization to impart their knowledge on subjects related to food, justice and sustainability. Activity participants are also encouraged to share their knowledge, and to create discussion and dialogue on various issues.

As part of the Zero Food Waste Network, the kitchen plays an important role in distributing food to people who need it in the community. At our Restaurant Nights and other public events, the kitchen uses this food, which would have otherwise been thrown out, to provide nourishment to those who need it, and to rearm the importance of food as something that unies the community.