Wow...they used to say “beggars can’t be choosers” but I guess now the homeless select haute cuisine.
This is so much like the liberal obsession with good intentions. Hungry people don’t care what they get as long as it is satisfying. But I’m sure liberals love to boast about their organic, gourmet charity work. Sounds like FLOTUS’ expensive sneakers fit right in.
“If anyone brings us donuts, Steve [the chef] throws them away. . . . It is not good food for our guests. We care too much to give them anything but the best. Steve wants our guests to have the same experience as if they were paying $30 for the meal.”
On one hand, I applaud this food bank for thinking enough of the people they serve by trying to avoid serving any old slop. That’s commendable.
On the other hand, the above comments reek of snootiness and elitism. I am aware of several soup kitchens in my area that don’t have a “chef” on premises. Nor do they serve mushroom risotto and pumpkin soup.
I just looked that up. She is great! I'm going to try some of her dishes.
What not creme fraiche? They got no coots. Er, I mean, how uncouth.
To go away hungry because the plates were big but the servings were small?
Assuming that the ingredients were proportionately more expensive than you would use in a $3 shelter meal, that means the "chef" would rather feed one needy person trendily than feed ten of them well.
http://www.miriamskitchen.org/http://www.miriamskitchen.org/
Trendy. I like today’s morning menu: Scrambled eggs with ground beef & onions, stone-ground grits, toast, garden salad, and fruit salad.
Read Breakfast at Sally’s to get the flavor of the leftist entitled twit homeless person.
I actually do not believe the book it true.
If the food is unhealthy, I can understand it. But to throw out healthy food because it’s not upscale enough has no justification.
Wonder what kind of food Joan Rivers’s charity that delivers food to the AIDS patients?? I would LOVE to know!
muffin tops
During my undergrad and grad school days, I kept a crock pot full of soup. All leftover veggies and meat went into the pot, and our apartment was a familiar stop for other equally impoverished students.
Thank the Lord for the Salvation Army. My daughters and I were allowed to stop there on a daily basis and pick up a dozen eggs and all the breads we wanted (yes, we were that poor). Once a month we could go through the food pantry. Most of what we received was out-of-date or generic, but we never got poisoned. My daughters were always fed, and I eventually graduated.
Today, they look back on those days with some fondness and sometimes request one of my unique food pantry creations. To them, it's comfort food.
I didn’t read the article. Don’t care. Just want to say I love arugula. I planted some today.
Read the entire diatribe and didn’t see arugula anywhere, what is it food or something else like road apples???
Whenever the trendy "get into" something which was formerly the provenance of the more ordinary folks, look out.
Blue jeans used to be about $5.00 a pair at the co-op, when 'discovered', they went up to $50.00+ a pair and became 'designer' items. The run of the mill, ordinary pair of work jeans did not go up as much, but the price doubled.
If they 'discovered' stone soup, you wouldn't be able to afford a rock... -