Ruby de Luna
Reporter
About
Ruby de Luna is a reporter with a focus on food and how it intersects with health, communities, and culture. She has also reported on health care and immigrant communities.
Ruby is a transplant from Taipei, Taiwan. She holds a B.A. in communication from Seattle Pacific University. She is proud to be one of the few old-schoolers who can edit tape with a razor blade.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English, Conversational Mandarin, Tagalog
Pronouns: she/her
Professional Affiliations: Member, AAJA
Stories
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Arts & Life
Cooked too much food? Start a pandemic meal exchange
So you’ve been cooking and baking up a storm ever since the pandemic shutdown. Now what to do with all that food?
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Arts & Life
Overwhelmed, food banks struggle to fill shelves
As Washington residents struggle with unemployment, more people than ever are turning to food banks for help. State officials say the demand for food assistance will continue in the coming months.
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Arts & Life
A year after buying a restaurant, how do you lay off 90 percent of your staff?
Voices of the pandemic features people in the Seattle area who are on the frontlines of the coronavirus outbreak. Desirae Aylesworth, owner of Wild Mountain Café in Seattle’s Crown Hill neighborhood, shares her reflection.
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Arts & Life
Local flower farmers struggling to survive coronavirus shutdown
Farmers markets are slowly returning, but in a limited way. Only food farmers and producers will be selling. Flower farmers, will not. Yet, they’re one of the hardest hit businesses by the coronavirus shutdown.
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Arts & Life
Seattle farmers markets' gradual return, with new safety protocols
Farmers markets are slowly re-opening. Beginning Saturday, the U-District market will start selling again. So is Ballard on Sunday. But before you go, there are a few things you need to know.
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Arts & Life
He crawled out of homelessness. Now he's struggling to stop coronavirus from knocking him back down
Restaurant workers who’ve been laid off as a result of the coronavirus pandemic are navigating a new reality that’s temporary yet filled with many uncertainties.
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Arts & Life
Demand is up at Rainier Valley Food Bank in south Seattle. But donations are down
Food banks across Washington are seeing a surge in demand during the coronavirus pandemic. But donations have not kept pace. Gov. Jay Inslee and a coalition of non-profits have started a food relief fund to help food banks.
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Arts & Life
Letter from a heartbroken restaurant owner in Seattle
Desirae Aylesworth has always worked in restaurants and of all the places she’s worked, Wild Mountain Café has a special place in her heart; it’s been a constant in her life. Throughout her time here she’s gone through break-ups, a marriage, a growing family. But like most people in the restaurant business, the coronavirus has turned her world upside down. Aylsworth shares her story about the hard decisions she’s made, her fears and her hopes during this period of uncertainty.
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Business
'We can't let them just fall by the wayside' says former Starbucks chief leading effort to help laid off restaurant workers
Before the coronavirus outbreak more than 100,000 people in King County worked in food and drink industry. But most have been laid off. The Schultz Family Foundation has started an effort to provide them emergency funding.
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Health
Panic-buying, empty shelves create hardships for people on food assistance programs
Empty store shelves due to panic-buying causes an inconvenience for most people. But it can be an even bigger hassle for families on food assistance.