It is the Brian Lairishow on WNYC Good Morning Again Everyone.

Now we take a look at a pitch to radically change our food system.

The goal to create a restaurant like no other that defines good food as a universal

right and makes that food accessible to everyone regardless of income.

This comes from Mark Bittman, you know him, food journalist, former New York Times

recipe columnist and author of How to Cook Everything and other cookbooks.

He's the man behind this idea and Mark Bittman joins us now to tell us more about it.

Hi Mark, welcome back to WNYC.

I'd Brian, great to be here again.

So I see this is going to be called Community Kitchen.

So start at the beginning and tell us what will differentiate it from other health and

sustainability focused restaurants.

For one of the better name.

As far as I know, this is the first restaurant that is going to try to do everything right.

Not just nibble at the margins, but source great food from local farmers, treat workers

up and down the food chain like professionals, cook great food and then serve it on a sliding

scale so that everyone can afford it.

And obviously I can unpack each of those, each of those four things as much as you like.

Well, I think the newest thing to a lot of our listeners will be pricing it so that everybody

can afford it.

It reminds me of, I don't know, some of the museums, maybe in New York where you don't

have to pay, but people with the means to pay might feel like they should pay.

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