Link icon Copied! Josh Allen (17). Players and staff from the Buffalo Bills, Bandits, and Sabres handed out food to the community in partnership with World Central Kitchen and chef Darian Bryan on May 18, 2022. Photo by Ben Green Today was time to spread love. Since this weekend's horrific events, many in the community and in Western New York came together to figure out how to help the victims' family members and help provide food and love to an area that needs it now more than ever.

Expect to pay a little more the next time you eat out. Some Okanagan restaurants are reporting they’ve raised prices, or plan to, in response to rising food costs and the competitive labour market. Read more: As inflation surges, Canadians find creative ways to save, cut costs Data shows it’s part of a national trend.

Watch now: Get ready for the weekend with St. Louis on the Go! Tops Friendly Market was more than a place to buy groceries. As the only supermarket for miles, it became a sort of community hub on Buffalo's East Side — where you chatted with neighbors and caught up on people's lives. "It's where we go to buy bread and stay for 15, 20 minutes because ... you're going to find four or five people you know and have a couple conversations before you leave," said Buffalo City Councilman Ulysees O. Wingo, who represents the struggling Black neighborhood, where he grew up.

A chip shop in Wales has gone viral on TikTok after posting its take on a special platinum jubilee fish and chips. Crisp and Fry, a chain of chip shops in Llanelli and Ammanford, created the dish in the colours of the Union Jack flag by adding blue and red food colouring to batter. The video showed a cook coating potato chips in red batter, while a fillet of fish is coated in blue batter.

A food desert is an area in which it is difficult for residents to access healthy and/or affordable food. Food deserts, says Medical News Today, are also characterized by poverty rates above 20% and a minimum of 33% of residents living relatively far from a grocery store. In a city, that means a mile, while in rural areas, that means as little as 10 miles.

Pearl Young, affectionately called "Pearly," was born in Alabama, where she still has family. The Fayette native was many things: a mother, a wife of a pastor, a grandmother, a substitute teacher in the Buffalo Public Schools, a Sunday school teacher and a head of a local food pantry. Young was among 10 people killed Saturday by a gunman who opened fire in a Tops Friendly Market on Buffalo's East Side in a racially motivated attack.