Stories Behind the Meals

Food for kids and seniors is a balancing act between three elements: taste appeal, low cost and nutritional value. The bad news is that you can at best rate high on two out of the three, sometimes only one of the three. It is like the old Russian proverb that said you cannot be at the same time intelligent, communist

Taste doesn’t matter in food. At least when it comes to government-reimbursed food.  We started Stock Pot with the belief that if we could deliver better food at the same price as incumbents, we would beat our competition. Call it the Toyota strategy. Better car, same price. The result? While we have had good growth with smaller, innovative institutions, large

On November 29, 2021, the Shah foundation and Stockpot Malden were featured in a great segment on Good Morning America. You can see the vidéo on Good Morning American site

In this episode of Catalysts for Change, Jill talks with Francis Goulliart and Lorena Lorenzet, two local food entrepreneurs who helped create Local Lunchbox, an innovative new program borne out of the pandemic that provides free, fresh, locally-prepared food for families. Francis is the CEO of Stock Pot Malden, and Lorena is a celebrated local chef and owner of the

Being a Covid-19-vulnerable, past-his-prime human specimen, I come to our Stock Pot Malden kitchen in late evening when everybody is gone. The landscape there is eerie.  For the first time in many years, there is empty shelf space as some of our member companies have bitten the dust. The kitchen is immaculate and I find myself desperately looking for incriminating vegetable

I have always liked Brazilians. They are a resilient bunch. They can go through devastating cycles of poverty, corruption and dictatorship, yet figure out how to survive through imagination. They are like their national soccer team, individually brilliant, but sometimes organizationally self-destructive. Lorena is a young Brazilian woman who runs a business called Farm Girl in our shared kitchen at