![]() ![]() And yet I had no problem eating healthily, because I made it a PRIORITY. I have never lived in neighborhoods with gourmet shopping or restaurants….I’ve always been surrounded by fast food joints. However, I get really tired of this notion that people in inner-city/black/latino neighborhoods eat mainly UNhealthyįoods BECAUSE there are no other options in their neighborhoods. I’m happy to see that a healthy food place is opening in Harlem, and by a local resident. Please share your thoughts on today’s questions in the comments box below.įor more coverage on the human side of the recession, visit the Living With Less guide, where readers can share their photos, moods and tips for weathering the economic downturn. We will be posting readers’ questions on selected topics and profiling how neighborhoods are doing. New York on Less is a weekly City Room feature about coping with the recession. Island Salad is at 22 East 125th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues. ![]() “There are better ways to make a dollar,” he said. He admits that he probably could have made more money selling meals that were not so healthy. He also hopes to attract more children and teachers from the Harlem Children’s Zone school nearby. He also offers free meals for children of customers who buy a salad on Tuesdays between 6 p.m. He is planning Diabetes Mondays, where those who bring a customer with diabetes receive one salad free. He is also trying to draw in Harlem residents and children who he thinks do not have enough healthy food options. Restaurant’s design and its salads by offering choices like the Asian Rasta and an island chicken jerk salad. Meed tried to incorporate Caribbean themes into the The grandnephew of the former Jamaican prime minister, Donald Sangster, Mr. Meed is preoccupied with getting local residents to even step into his shop. Even though there is a recession, the business should be successful, because there’s a void in the market.” He said he was confident about the restaurant’s future, despite the recession. He also thanked Ellingston Clark of the development corporation for his advice, like creating an open refrigerator where customers could see the greens. Day had been hankering forĪ local place with good tuna wraps. Meed said he could not have started the salad bar without help from his landlord, Nina Day, who offered him a discounted rent for the space, once occupied by a dry cleaner. ![]() “Since I always complained about it, I thought I would open a salad place.” “I got tired of going to 96th and 86th Streets to get a salad,” he said. On by his mother, his pastor and workers from the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation, which provided him with $181,406 to help start the business. Meed took Harlem’s need for more healthy eating options into his own hands: He opened Island Salad, a Caribbean-themed salad bar and juice cafe, cheered Than a dozen healthy food chains to see if they would expand onto 125th Street. As a consultant to local small Harlem businesses, he suggested that they open a restaurant specializing in salads. Watching his 11-year-old son, Danny, grow up, he grew even more concerned, as he noticed far more obese childrenįor a few years, he tried to convince other businesses to fix this problem. For the decade that Milo Meed has lived in Harlem, he has been frustrated with the lack of healthy food. ![]()
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