Consider this an introduction. My name is Jamie Klein and I've created Soup Kitchen, Inc., a sustainable answer to the issue of hunger. I have spent my whole working life in some form of food service (resume available upon request :-) and one day it hit me (ok I actually asked the question "why did I spend a lifetime getting good at creating and sharing food and flavor?") all I really want to do is to feed hungry people. In the discovery of what that simple realization meant (coming up with and then discarding just moving into some church basement and becoming the best soup kitchen chef they've ever seen...... didn't think I could sell the wife and kid on that one) Soup Kitchen, Inc. (http://www.soupkitcheninc.com/) was born.
What we do is simple: for every portion of soup sold, an equal portion of soup is donated to someone in need. The donations take place in the areas where the soup is sold, so everyone is helping in their own backyard.
Imagine that the next time you eat, as you feed yourself, you are feeding someone in need in your community, right from your table, without having to set an extra place (well perhaps in your heart.... that was my awww how sweet moment). We have imagined that and live that reality every day.
We like to call it "intentional eating".
Over the course of future writings, I will explore the history, parctice and philosophy of what Soup Kitchen, Inc. is and is becoming; from it's first (and thankfully continuing) moments of inspiration through it occasional bouts of momentary frustration (let's call it Soup to nuts!), through all of the doors it has and continues to travel (open and closed).
It's quite a story, both in the telling and in the living, but now it's time to go pack some soup (writing alone doesn't fill the table), so I'll leave it at hello for today (did I have you at hello?)
Welcome to the conversation of soup.
"Together we can change the way the world helps"
Always,
J
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