Source: Washington City Paper Young & Hungry
At Union Kitchen Grocery, Gatorade shares fridge space with Capital Kombucha, and Hershey’s bars are within arm’s length of Undone Chocolate bars. ’Chups fruit ketchups shares shelves with Grey Poupon. Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes are stored below Bear’s Made marmalade. What’s local and what’s not are seamlessly shuffled in the Near Northeast shop.
Even as recently as five years ago, you’d be hard-pressed to fill even a single shelf with locally made products. If anyone is to credit for the boom, it’s Union Kitchen. When co-founders Jonas Singer and Cullen Gilchrist opened the food incubator in NoMa in 2012, ...