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  • 10/19/2012
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CNN Looks at the Lower 9th Ward As a "Food Desert" (VIDEO)

With our Grocery Store For-A-Day event happening tomorrow (10-5, All Souls Church, 5500 St. Claude), we thought it's worth showing this terrific CNN news story from 2010. Take a look!



"Fresh food is hard to find in neighborhoods five years after Katrina." CNN's David Mattingly talks with the Lower 9's Jenga Mwendo - and discovers just how far you have to walk to buy groceries.

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