The holiday season has many feeling corny, including a Baltimore-based nonprofit turning food into a force for good.
Love & Cornbread has launched a locally crafted cornbread mix, and each purchase helps feed children in Baltimore City.
The new mix is available online, but shoppers can pick it up on the shelves of Eddies of Roland Park, Graul’s Market, the Made in Baltimore Holiday Pop-Up Shop, and multiple local gourmet stores. Chef Amanda Lott, formerly the Executive Pastry Chef at Cunningham’s Bakery in Towson, created the mix exclusively for Love & Cornbread. Other L&C cornbread mixes include Sunday Supper (the warm and fluffy classic), Sweet & Spicy (just a lil’ heat), and Rise & Shine (a high-rising muffin, perfect for breakfast).
This is a mission-driven product launch, with feeding hungry children at the core. Federal grants are drying up, families are losing SNAP benefits, and ACA subsidies are set to end when the new year begins. Food insecurity impacts hundreds of thousands of Marylanders.
“This isn’t just cornbread—it’s a way for our community to help one another,” said Sue May, executive director of Love & Cornbread. “Every bag sold helps us put real food on the table for kids in our city.”
Love & Cornbread got its start in August 2000 on the streets of West Baltimore, giving away homemade mac and cheese and cornbread made from scratch. Now, the organization serves 26,000 chef-prepared meals every year to people in need. They sell their cornbread mixes and merchandise to help support their efforts, which place a special focus on their love for feeding Baltimore’s children.
The organization’s motto is “Everybody deserves cornbread.” May takes that to mean, “Everybody deserves good food made with love.”
