MERA KITCHEN COLLECTIVE IN THE PRESS

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2026

Baltimore Beat “Mera Kitchen’s new series serves up food as memory, migration, and inheritance” - May 2026
Star Chefs “A Recipe for Empowerment” - March 2026
Baltimore Banner “A food runner becomes the chef for a week at Mera Kitchen Collective” - March 2026

2025

Time Out “The Best Restaurants in Baltimore Right Now” - August 2025
Baltimore Beat “How Baltimore Became a Rising Star in America’s Worker-Cooperative Movement” - August 2025

2023

2022

2021

The Washington Post - “Amid food-industry upheaval, Baltimore businesses are handing workers the keys” - December 2021
Baltimore Sun - “Mera Kitchen Collective opening restaurant in Midtown-Belvedere, planning an additional space on North Avenue” - October 2021
WYPR/NPR - Midday: “As A Post-Pandemic Dining-Out Season Looms, How Is The Local Restaurant Industry Faring?” - May 2021'

2020

WYPR/NPR - On the Record: “The Food Industry's Pandemic Pivot” - November 2020
Johns Hopkins Magazine - “For the Greater Good” - Fall 2020
Baltimore Business Journal - “Mera Kitchen Collective has found a sustainable way to keep serving up free meals” - August 2020
Baltimore Sun - “These Baltimore business owners want to reimagine the city’s food system” - August 2020
WMAR Baltimore - “Baltimore catering business has donated nearly 10,000 meals to families and healthcare workers” - April 2020
Baltimore Business Journal - “Local chefs are preparing hundreds of free meals for those who need them” - April 2020
Thrillist - “Refugee Chefs to Cook Free Meals For Healthcare Workers and Local Community” - March 2020

2019

The Baltimore Fishbowl - Baltimost Award - October 2019
Maryland Public Television “The Dig: Refugees” - July 2019
Baltimore Sun “Ten Things to Try at the Baltimore Farmers Market” - April 2019
WYPR/NPR - “Stories From the Stoop: Aishah Alfadhalah” - April 2019
Baltimore Fishbowl “Baltimost: Iman Alshehab” - April 2019
Red Bull TV “Spotlight on Mera Kitchen Collective” - February 2019
The Baltimore Magazine “World Cafe” - January 2019

2018

Gensler Design Firm “Designing for Issues Advocacy Podcast” - December 2018
Baltimore Magazine’s Best Of Baltimore 2018
Baltimore Sun's 25 Women to Watch in 2018
Johns Hopkins News Letter - November 2018
CBS News - June 2018
Baltimore Sun “Baltimore’s Mera Kitchen Collective empowers immigrant women through food” - April 2018
technical.ly - April 2018

2017