Baltimore Sun discovers Metro Detroit is not a food desert

A Baltimore Sun writer visits Detroit and finds more than this empty city plastered across headlines. He saw restaurant after restaurant piled upon each other and discovered there is no food desert here.Excerpt:I went into Detroit, however, expecting to see much worse.  I wasn’t expecting to see crowded museums, or rush hour traffic in a city with such high unemployment, or restaurants of all types filled with diners. Nevertheless, that’s what I saw. … It was probably the filled restaurants that surprised me the most. A lot has been written about how Detroit is a food desert, insofar as the city has no grocery stores.  I figured a city that couldn’t support grocery stores probably couldn’t support its restaurants. But I visited restaurants throughout the city, the suburbs and the countryside. Every place I went had decent crowds. Read the entire article here.