FOOD

Not ‘Girly’ Food

 e She Shed will specialize in “man sandwiches.”

Get ready for  e She Shed to tootle down the street.  e pink food truck, slated to open in September, will be manned by Kathleen with both of them.” When the pandemic hit, Barth and Dunston were involved with Caritas’ Feed the Frontline program where chefs fed more than 2,000 meals to front line workers and people in the community. 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  ey’ll specialize in “big-ass man the gravy at  rst, but I  gured 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  gured 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,  at’s the hunch.” and people would order that.”  is 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 MORGAN NEWSOM style,” Dunston says. “Rustic is a great word,” Barth says. “We plate our food the same. We stack things — your carb on the bottom, potatoes, rice, MK Dunston (back) and Kathleen Barth and The She Shed then your veggies and proteins on top.” She worked as a bartender/manager

A er corresponding for a few at Blue Monkey until the pandemic hit. weeks, Barth asked Dunston if she “A er quarantine started, I thought I wanted to go halves with her on a food should kick food into high gear. I wasn’t truck.  e truck originally belonged sure how I was going to earn money. to a woman who planned to use it for  at’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.” shingles.”  e Frenchy, one of Dunston’s items,

A month later, Barth and Dunston will be included at  e She Shed. “It’s met each other in person. “I just sent like French dip and French onion soup her a message via Facebook and asked had a baby,” she says. “It’s a slowif she wanted to hang out one day and roasted shaved prime rib topped with cook together,” Barth says. roasted black pepper, Gruyere cheese,

“We gave each other a hug like we and caramelized onion on sourdough, knew each other forever,” Dunston says. served with a side of au jus.”

Barth, owner of 901  yme CaterAnother will be Barth’s signature ing, began cooking at home about dish — a garden veggie pie, which she eight years ago. “I like to cook Italian, describes as “like a classic tomato pie,”

Mediterranean style. I like a lot of but with zucchini, fresh herbs, and

Asian in uences. I really like to cook topped with a cheese blend. all the regions.” Desserts will include Dunston’s

Last year, Barth worked with Spenpecan blondie with Southern pecan ice cer and Kristin McMillin when they cream and a Khalua drizzle. were at Caritas Village. “He’s kind of  e She Shed will travel “wherever been my mentor. He taught me a lot anyone will have us,” Barth says. “Anyof technique. It was an honor to work where they want man sandwiches.”

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CROSSTOWN ARTS YOUTH THE ATER COM PAN Y presents UNAPOLOGETIC

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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