Last call —
1:1 Foods has closed!
1:1 Foods launched in May 2020 as a response to COVID and its impact on food insecurity and local small food businesses. Over time, we evolved from a meal kit company to catering & events business – always built on a social enterprise model that held community-led food justice at its core. Now, as 2022 comes to a close, it’s with deep gratitude to our community that we announce that 1:1 Foods is closing its doors.
During these years, we executed more than 115 catering, pop-up, and ticketed events of every size and shape. Weddings on rooftops and in SoHo bookstores. Farm dinners in Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley. Specialty boxed lunches for film shoots. Multi-course gala dinners and fancy cocktail hours. All-day corporate conferences for hundreds of guests. Guest chef pop-ups with over 20 NYC chefs. Phew!
This revenue-generating work, in turn, fueled the mission-driven work at our core: delivering thousands of our compensated labor hours, lovingly prepared meals, and direct financial contributions into our community food justice network. We had the incredible privilege to work within a tight-knit ecosystem of mission-aligned local food businesses, farms, community organizations, and organizers. Stewarded by FIG, this living network is dedicated to making local, culturally appropriate & joyous food as part of a vision co-created with our trans and gender-nonconforming BIPOC comrades at the forefront of the fight for food sovereignty.
So it is with deep gratitude that we say goodbye to 1:1 Foods, and give thanks to all who have been a part of our journey. We’re buoyed by the faith that our collective legacy will live on through our partners and collaborators, and the lives that we’ve touched along the way — including our own.
1:1 Foods by the numbers ~
1:1 Foods by the numbers ~
As a social enterprise business, we measured our impact in many ways. Here we share the easily quantifiable part of the picture — number of meals donated, hours invested, events produced, and the like. But there’s so much more, too. How do you measure the dedication of the time, energy, and patience required to build trust & shift power to build stronger, more horizontal partnerships? Or the difference in a person’s experience when receiving a lovingly made, culturally appropriate meal with ingredients sourced from local farms? We’re proud of and celebrate it all.
Partners & Alumni
1:1 Foods’ successes were made possible by its talented, kind, and dedicated staff, alongside the partners and clients who fueled our work.
Past events
A look back on our favorite events and celebrations from 2020-2022.