Nov. 14, 2008 — The ingre­di­ents for green col­lar eco­nomic renewal via food-based busi­nesses have been stew­ing for a few years in the Mis­sion at La Cocina. Enter­ing its fifth year of oper­a­tion in 2009, La Cocina was founded to pro­vide kitchen space and assis­tance to food entre­pre­neurs – many of them low-income and all of them women – help­ing them in start­ing new busi­nesses or grow their home-based busi­nesses into sta­ble ven­tures. Read more