Corn chowder. Cucumber salad. Mashed potatoes. As we sort through a large cardboard box of fresh produce, the woman beside me details all the ways she plans to transform these groceries into meals.
“I make a chicken soup, too,” she says, adding to the list, “and my grandson says, ‘It’s so good!’”
This woman, who shares her recipes but not her name, has eight grandchildren and not enough food, which is why she takes the bus every Wednesday to Durham’s Emanuel Food Pantry (EFP), a nonprofit that runs a weekly mobile food distribution service from the parking lot of Iglesia Presbiteriana Emanuel on Roxboro Street…