For donors and volunteers, the charitable food system offers a multitude of ways to help out in the community. More people donate to food drives every year than watch the Super Bowl, while wide swaths of the population volunteer at the estimated 60,000 food pantries and programs across the country…
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There is a running motif in Jose Andres’ illuminating book, We Fed an Island, in which Andres and his crew enter through the backdoor of the Puerto Rico Convention Center so they can take part in official meetings about restoring order after Hurricane Maria. Andres has no invitation nor security…
To the people who work or volunteer at the nation’s food banks, the premise of Andrew Fisher’s book, Big Hunger, smarts. He means Big Hunger in the same sense as Big Data, Big Ag, or Big Tech — a powerful, behind-the-scenes force adept at manipulating the market, often to benefit…