FOOD By Michael Donahue
MORGAN NEWSOM
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et ready for The She with both of them.” Shed to tootle down When the pandemic hit, Barth and the street. Dunston were involved with Caritas’ The pink food Feed the Frontline program where chefs truck, slated to open fed more than 2,000 meals to front line in September, will be workers and people in the community. manned by Kathleen When she was 10, Dunston began Barth and MK Dunston. cooking for her siblings. “First thing “It looks like a little cottage on I ever made was country fried steak wheels,” Barth says. “Kind of a rosy with gravy,” she says. “I watched my pink. It’ll have ivy on the outside. Very grandmother make it 100 times. I was girly. But not girly food.” convinced I could do it. I screwed up They’ll specialize in “big-ass man the gravy at first, but I figured it out. sandwiches,” she says. “A sandwich that When I became a grown person and you’ve got to do the hunch. When you’re started having babies, I figured I’d betgetting ready to take a bite, you’ve got ter learn how to cook all these things to get your sandwich with both hands so I could feed the kids.” and make sure you’re not going to get it Last November, Dunston began all over your belly or your boobs. Brace making food people could order yourself, open up that trap, and munch. online. “I would just put out one plate, That’s the hunch.” and people would order that.” This began last April when Dunston saw a photo of one of Barth’s creations on Facebook, and then saw Barth’s other food posts. Everything looked like something she would make. “We have exactly the same cooking style,” Dunston says. “Rustic is a great word,” Barth says. “We plate our MK Dunston (back) and food the same. We stack Kathleen Barth and The She Shed things — your carb on the bottom, potatoes, rice, then your veggies and proteins on top.” She worked as a bartender/manager After corresponding for a few at Blue Monkey until the pandemic hit. weeks, Barth asked Dunston if she “After quarantine started, I thought I wanted to go halves with her on a food should kick food into high gear. I wasn’t truck. The truck originally belonged sure how I was going to earn money. to a woman who planned to use it for That’s when I launched Barricade Breakher dog rescue business. “She turned it fast, Lockdown Lunch, and Quarantine into a giant-ass doghouse on wheels,” Cuisine. I started doing breakfast, lunch, she says. “It actually has a roof with and dinner every week.” The Frenchy, one of Dunston’s items, shingles.” will be included at The She Shed. “It’s A month later, Barth and Dunston like French dip and French onion soup met each other in person. “I just sent had a baby,” she says. “It’s a slowher a message via Facebook and asked roasted shaved prime rib topped with if she wanted to hang out one day and roasted black pepper, Gruyere cheese, cook together,” Barth says. and caramelized onion on sourdough, “We gave each other a hug like we served with a side of au jus.” knew each other forever,” Dunston says. Another will be Barth’s signature Barth, owner of 901 Thyme Caterdish — a garden veggie pie, which she ing, began cooking at home about describes as “like a classic tomato pie,” eight years ago. “I like to cook Italian, but with zucchini, fresh herbs, and Mediterranean style. I like a lot of topped with a cheese blend. Asian influences. I really like to cook Desserts will include Dunston’s all the regions.” pecan blondie with Southern pecan ice Last year, Barth worked with Spencream and a Khalua drizzle. cer and Kristin McMillin when they The She Shed will travel “wherever were at Caritas Village. “He’s kind of anyone will have us,” Barth says. “Anybeen my mentor. He taught me a lot where they want man sandwiches.” of technique. It was an honor to work
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UNAPOLOGETIC presents
This Thursday, August 20, the Crosstown Youth Theater Company (a program of Crosstown Arts) presents “Unapologetic,” a story dedicated to James Dukes (IMAKEMADBEATS) and Unapologetic. The video will be released in the Crosstown Arts newsletter and on its social media channels. The Crosstown Youth Theater Company planned to go on tour beginning April 8, 2020. Due to the pandemic, the young artists altered their plans and began creating made-at-home videos featuring original storylines.
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