In a Portland kitchen, a nonprofit cooks up a small-scale solution to Oregon’s big hunger problem

Michael Casper sticks a label on an aluminum foil lid.

It’s 5:45 p.m. on a Friday night in November. Soon, volunteers will arrive at the restaurant-grade kitchen in a Northeast Portland church basement.

Casper, founder and co-director of the nonprofit Milk Crate Kitchen, is getting a table set up to package meals. The label he’s sticking on lids lists the meal and ingredients that volunteers will portion into family-size servings…

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