Since Christmas the Roving Chef has had $1 in donations, and she feeds about 100 people three times a week. "It's been nip and tuck," Charlie Johnson-Parker said about the situation. Johnson-Parker converted a step van into a mobile soup kitchen she calls The Roving Chef.Three days a week she cooks in her truck and hands out meals to whomever needs or wants food. Recently told to leave the Wal-Mart parking lot on Fridays, the Roving Chef serves meals in the Kmart parking lot from 11 a.m.to 2 p.m.On Mondays she is stationed at Center and Detroit streets and on Wednesdays she can be found in the Big Lots parking lot. She has a business license and the Health Department regularly inspects her truck. Meals are traded for cash donations, food or meal tickets.
TERESA SMITH, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016