Birmingham, Alabama, is as good a place as any in America to see a broken food system and the seedlings of a healthier one. As the city’s low-income residents scrape by on 99-cent mega sodas and packaged fried pork skins, an unlikely coalition of foodies, farmers, business leaders and public agencies is coming together to change the city’s food environment. This piece describes the city’s unhealthy food environment and chronicles a promising, multi-pronged effort to improve it.
