Sarah Baird is a writer whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, The Guardian, Saveur, The Atlantic, Food & Wine and more. She divides her time between Kentucky and New Orleans.
They may be only Band-Aids for the region’s food insecurity, but “blessings boxes” are popping up in more and more parts of Appalachia, dutifully refilled by local pastors, police officers, and anyone with a box of pasta to spare.
