Welcome to Comfort Kitchen at Queens College

Who are we?

We are students at The City University of New York - Queens College Campus, who saw a need to provide community on our campus.

What is Comfort Kitchen?

Comfort Kitchen is a movement that encourages the student body to share and receive free resources to address food insecurity on campus.

Our Goal

To address hunger and food insecurity faced by the students at the Queens College campus. The students at Queens college encounter high prices for on campus food carts and cafe food offerings, with no other options available for low income students or those who simply can’t afford the high prices of meals.

Who we are and who who serve

Comfort kitchen is a group of 5 college students who know all too well about the high cost of food on college campus. We were created to serve the students. We believe in supporting all students, and helping with relief on some of the pressures of college life, such as the cost of meals and prices that do not consider students financial situations as well as the unavailability of free or nutritious meals.

Our approach

The goal of Comfort Kitchen is to address hunger and food insecurity faced by the students at the Queens College campus. 

Comfort Kitchen is taking a holistic approach in our combat. To do this, we are focusing on four guiding principles: Food Sovereignty, Food Justice, Vision (Spectacle), Participation and Communal Acts.

How to solve this problem:

Comfort Kitchen will prepare a meal using simple ingredients. The kitchen will provide pamphlets on how to cook on a budget using items that can be accessed in a food pantry, can be grown or be bought in a grocery for very little cost. 

The Importance of Food Sovereignty

Food sovereignty is especially critical today as benefit cuts leave many people struggling to meet basic needs. When communities have control over how their food is grown, distributed, and accessed, they are less vulnerable to policy changes that prioritize budgets over human well-being. Strengthening local food systems, supporting community growers, and building sustainable networks ensures that access to food remains a stable right rather than a conditional privilege.

Student Impact 

Students on campus are getting hit hard because rising grocery prices and stricter benefit rules make basic meals way less accessible. When students cannot afford consistent food, they start skipping meals or relying on cheap low nutrition options, which tanks energy levels and focus. Hunger messes with memory, problem solving, and overall mental stamina, so academic performance drops fast. It also adds stress that stacks on top of already heavy workloads, making it harder to stay present in class or keep up with assignments. Food insecurity is not just a financial issue for students, it becomes an academic barrier that directly impacts retention, grades, and overall well-being

Communal Acts

Participants will be asked to take an index card to write down their experience with food insecurity, share recipes and even share light-hearted messages.

Participants will receive a bowl of chili which the can use along with the seeds to create their first garden.

Each table will have a pamphlet, in the pamphlet there are information on local soil and compost banks and urban soil labs for soil testing.