This is a replay of a recording made in April of 2020. At the time we were less than 60 days into the restrictions and mandates for curbing the Covid pandemic. At the time, everyone thought this would be over by early summer at the latest. Here we are 8 months into it and we've returned to the tight restrictions we experienced early on due to a dramatic increase in cases and deaths. (Yesterday, two days before Thanksgiving, over 2,000 deaths were reported nationwide.) 

Amy Brown, her partner Heidi Andermack and their team created Minnesota Central Kitchen in March of this year originally as a way to use up some product that had been meant for their successful catering operation that was abruptly shutdown like many other food operations. As all great ideas begin, this was a small gesture meant to get by for a few weeks. And like all great ideas, it has grown into a source of caring and hope as it employed many out of work foodservice people and just recently passed the mark of having prepared and served over 1 million meals. 

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