{"id":298,"date":"2020-05-10T06:28:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T13:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=298"},"modified":"2020-05-09T16:33:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T23:33:49","slug":"news-culinary-kindness-in-the-age-of-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/05\/10\/news-culinary-kindness-in-the-age-of-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"News: Culinary Kindness in the Age of Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-theme=\"dark\"><h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/voraciously\/wp\/2020\/05\/08\/at-a-new-york-relief-kitchen-urgency-meets-empathy-as-immigrants-create-thousands-of-meals-a-day\/\">At a New York relief kitchen, urgency meets empathy as immigrants create thousands of meals a day<\/a><\/h4><p>At 5:30 a.m. in the kind of godforsaken industrial crevice of Queens where mob bodies are probably buried, Daniel Dorado recently waited in a line of mostly undocumented restaurant workers before the opening of Restaurant Depot, a wholesaler like Costco on steroids available only to the industry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Feeding people who need food is meaningful social work, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themigrantkitchennyc.com\/\">the Migrant Kitchen NYC<\/a> is doing it in a socially responsible way: producing thousands of meals daily for healthcare workers and people who are &#8216;food insecure,&#8217; while paying the workers properly (&#8220;They pay wages of $20 to $25 an hour in their kitchen, Jaber said, and with the four other kitchens pooled 40 largely undocumented workers from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/maketheroadny.org\/\">Make The Road<\/a>, a civil rights group&#8230;&#8221;), AND ensuring that any gig workers delivering to homebound folks are also fairly compensated (&#8220;Migrant Kitchen\u2019s attention to empathy and generosity operates even at the courier level: Its DoorDash deliveries are filed so that the couriers get $35 per trip.&#8221;).  It&#8217;s meaningful work being done in a meaningful way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are cooking serious dishes with foodie love:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-right is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The containers would soon be packed with sumptuous entrees: citrus garlic salmon with Cuban black beans and coconut herb rice, or moussaka-stuffed zucchini with dirty rice and beans, or mojo chicken with chimichurri and roasted potatoes with grilled shishito peppers. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And the kitchen is nut-free and halal, to look after a wide range of clients with care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Dorado put it succinctly: \u201cIt\u2019s pure New York. Every kitchen I\u2019ve ever worked in this city has been a mini U.N.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a New York relief kitchen, urgency meets empathy as immigrants create thousands of meals a day At 5:30 a.m. in the kind of godforsaken industrial crevice of Queens where mob bodies are probably buried, Daniel Dorado recently waited in a line of mostly undocumented restaurant workers before the opening of Restaurant Depot, a wholesaler &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/05\/10\/news-culinary-kindness-in-the-age-of-pandemic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;News: Culinary Kindness in the Age of Pandemic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[76,59,75],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-food","tag-pandemic","tag-solidarity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}