NEW YORK TIMES

Mark Bittman becomes a restaurateur

This ambitious new nonprofit restaurant will open its doors Sept. 3 to East Village and Lower East Side residents by invitation only, and to others a week later. It’s a pilot for the project: A three-year plan aims to create 80 jobs and support local farms and other businesses.

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FAST COMPANY

Mark Bittman’s New Restaurant Doen’t Plan to Make Money

At a new nonprofit restaurant in New York City, fine dining can cost as little as $15 a plate.

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THE GUARDIAN

‘I want to be disruptive’

The former New York Times recipe columnist is pitching investors the chain of his wildest dreams, with no specific menu: Community Kitchen, or non-profit restaurants.

Illustration: Yuanyuan Zhou/The Guardian

WNYC

Mark Bittman, food journalist, former NYT recipe columnist, and the author of How to Cook Everything (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008) and other cookbooks, talks about his new project, Community Kitchen, a chain of restaurants that would offer healthy food, from sustainable farms, pay a living wage to its workers and let customers pay what they can.

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Mark Bittman's Plan to 'Disrupt' How We Eat

NRN

Mark Bittman wants to start a chain of nonprofit restaurants

Former New York Times dining columnist Mark Bittman wants to reinvent the restaurant industry with his menu-less Community Kitchen concept.

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RESTAURANT BUSINESS ONLINE

Designing the ideal restaurant that is good and does good

Writer and activist Mark Bittman is pitching a new concept called Community Kitchen that will attempt what some might say is impossible: Offering healthful food in a way that benefits the planet, pays workers well and is affordable. Can it make a profit?

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EVERYDAY ANARCHISM PODCAST

A new model for food and politics

Mark Bittman returns to Everyday Anarchism to discuss Community Kitchen, his new model for how we can do restaurant food better by running nonprofit restaurants rooted in their communities.

But we also talk about RFK's crusade against seed oils, what's wrong with Pod Save America, why food is so cheap in the US, the recent US presidential election, and whatever else happened to come up.