MCC Hosts Foodshare’s 19th Annual Empty Bowls Project This Weekend
MANCHESTER, Conn. (October 20, 2016) – The MCC campus will again be the site of Foodshare’s annual Empty Bowls Project this Saturday, October 22, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the college’s Culinary Arts Center. Admission is $15.
For several weeks a team of volunteers from across the college has been organizing and searching for businesses to donate soups, bowls and other necessary items to make the unique annual fundraiser the success it is. The volunteers will pick up 200 gallons of soup from 44 area restaurants, schools, hospitals and contract food venders located in the communities of Ellington, Glastonbury, Manchester, South Windsor, East Hartford, Wethersfield, Old Wethersfield and West Hartford. Soup bowls are also donated to the event by local potters.
The Empty Bowls project offers guests the unique opportunity to not only partake in a hearty meal featuring soups, breads, desserts and beverages served by MCC’s Hospitality Management and Culinary Arts students, but to select and bring home a soup bowl, which is intended to remind people of all the empty bowls in food-insecure households across the region and around the world.
During the event, the bowl is filled with each guest’s choice of soup, as a reminder that many people aren’t able to provide themselves with even a simple meal such as soup or rice. All proceeds from the Empty Bowls Project benefit Foodshare of Greater Hartford. In addition, take-home quarts of soup will be available for sale at the cost of $7 each, or four for $25.
About Foodshare
Foodshare is Greater Hartford’s regional food bank, working to nourish our neighbors every, single day by increasing access to healthy food. In addition to providing 11.5 million meals worth of food through 300 local programs each year, Foodshare is building collaborative partnerships across the region and advocating on behalf of those we serve, to help to stabilize lives with one goal in mind—building a stronger and healthier Greater Hartford for us all. Visit www.foodshare.org.
