A $750,000 grant will double the annual budget for Tucson City of Gastronomy over the next three years and allow the nonprofit to take its mission of preserving Tucson’s food heritage to home kitchens.
TCoG will use the Mellon Foundation Humanities in Place Program grant it landed last week to launch the Resilience Kitchen, an initiative focused on teaching home cooks about Tucson’s heritage ingredients and food traditions.
The program is designed to “preserve our food heritage, foster community placemaking and build sustainability in Tucson through food,” said Executive Director Jonathan Mabry…