More healthful food, one market at a time

March 16, 2009 9:57 AM PT

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Students from the Accelerated School in South L.A. have been working to spread the word about healthy eating. They helped spruce up Coronado market, and they’ve made videos on topics including fast food, how to make reduced-fat tamales and how to read food labels. Read more about some of their efforts.

-- Mary MacVean

Coronado Meat Market and Bakery on Avalon Boulevard.

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Mary MacVean

Mary MacVean is the former Mind & Body editor at the Los Angeles Times. She’s a runner and a cook, and has worked at The Times as morning assignment editor, web liaison, food writer and copy editor. She was a national editor and writer focusing on food at the Associated Press and a features editor and a columnist in Moscow, where she also ran a children’s cooking school. She left The Times in 2015.

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