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Oct 30, 2014
"Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul." --Dorothy Day
DailyBread: A Simple Idea That's Feeding The Hungry
Simplicity can be disarming. That's what Carolyn North discovered. It started with an impulse to save the leftover Thanksgiving turkey her neighbor had discarded as trash. Thirty years later, she and a rotating team of friends-turned-volunteers have been quietly recovering surplus food and delivering it to free food shelters and pantries across the San Francisco Bay Area.