For Kurt Evans, ‘Staying Busy Keeps You Alive’

The Philly chef and activist aims to bring good food to the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood

Adam Erace
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7 min readSep 1, 2020

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Kurt Evans in front of a black backround and studio lights, wearing a shirt saying the US prison system is legalized slavery.
Photo: Vernon Ray

Strawberries are scarce in Strawberry Mansion. The North Philadelphia neighborhood borders the eastern flank of Fairmount Park, where a Revolution-era country house gave the area its nickname in the 1840s when dairy farmers moved in…

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