Exchange Food Truck Charity
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) – Mary Blackmon strolls up to the crowd around the food truck with the bearing of a queen. Even bundled up for a bitterly cold morning, she is clearly a beauty and is greeted like one with hugs and kisses and loads of “lookin’ good!”
Around the truck – which has “American Lunch. Yes this really is a free lunch” emblazoned along its side – the scent of red beans and rice perfumes the air. Volunteers warmly congratulate Blackmon when she tells them she’s winning her cancer battle.
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday since September, the truck rolls into the 500 block of M.L. King Boulevard where several low-income residential towers flank a square. The free lunches are hot soup or jambalaya, bread and tea.
