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And it offers materials available for free download at \u003ca href=\"http://www.superfooddrive.org/\">SuperFoodDrive.org\u003c/a> that groups can use to design their own healthful food drives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People think if it's nonperishable, it must be unhealthy,\" says Solari. \"Instead of reaching in the back of the pantry for what's expired or undesired, we're asking people to really think about health.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means lentils, canned tuna or canned salmon, brown rice or kidney beans. With these sorts of pantry staples, she says, \"you can have amazingly healthy food as the basis of any meal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though many people may not realize it, eating this way – with a focus on whole, unprocessed or minimally processed foods – can also be a lot cheaper, when you look at the cost per serving, Solari notes. 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So in recent years, hunger-relief groups have been putting an increasing emphasis on healthful eating, says Gilmore, who worked with Solari to revamp her organization's nutritional policies. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People think if it's nonperishable, it must be unhealthy,\" says Solari. \"Instead of reaching in the back of the pantry for what's expired or undesired, we're asking people to really think about health.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means lentils, canned tuna or canned salmon, brown rice or kidney beans. With these sorts of pantry staples, she says, \"you can have amazingly healthy food as the basis of any meal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though many people may not realize it, eating this way – with a focus on whole, unprocessed or minimally processed foods – can also be a lot cheaper, when you look at the cost per serving, Solari notes. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.superfooddrive.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Cost-Comparison.pdf\">cost-comparison chart\u003c/a> on Superfood's website shows how swapping in raisins for fruit snacks or rolled oats for instant oatmeal will get you a much better (and healthier) bang for your buck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giving food pantry clients this type of price information is key to helping them make better nutritional choices when they're shopping, too, says Jennifer Gilmore, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://feedingamericasd.org/\">Feeding America San Diego\u003c/a>, a hunger-relief organization that serves some 480,000 people in San Diego County, Calif. She says 67 percent of families who frequent food banks make their food purchases \"based on dollars, instead of anything having to do with nutrition.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/11/11/362355858/a-glimmer-of-hope-in-the-fight-against-hunger-in-america\">One in 7 Americans\u003c/a> visited a food pantry in 2013, according to a national survey conducted by Feeding America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are the elderly, single parents, they're \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/08/18/340676181/more-military-families-are-relying-on-food-banks-and-pantries\">returning veterans\u003c/a>,\" notes Solari. \"They're people just like us, our neighbors who hard times have forced to choose between paying for utilities and food.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these people are also struggling with diet-related diseases like diabetes. So in recent years, hunger-relief groups have been putting an increasing emphasis on healthful eating, says Gilmore, who worked with Solari to revamp her organization's nutritional policies. That involved changing not only the types of foods that pantries give out to families, Gilmore says, but also educating volunteers and staffers about healthier cooking, so they can pass that knowledge on to the people they serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's one thing to distribute brown rice and quinoa and bok choy,\" says Gilmore. \"It's a whole other thing to get families to taste it and cook it and eat it at home.\" Her group now hands out recipes with food boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal, says Solari, is to make healthful eating approachable and \"really debunking the idea that it's an elitist thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not enough to fill empty stomachs,\" she says. \"The opposite of being hungry isn't being full – it's being healthy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Planning to donate to a food drive this holiday season? Here's SuperFood Drive's suggested \u003ca href=\"http://www.superfooddrive.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/SFD-Shopping-List.pdf\">shopping list\u003c/a>. It's also just as efficient to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120760895\">give money\u003c/a> to your local bank online.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_89193\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/homelessfood_wide-933c67b9420c54f467eac1229d7a7c027e2b565c-e1414029550525.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/homelessfood_wide-933c67b9420c54f467eac1229d7a7c027e2b565c-e1414029550525.jpg\" alt=\"The homeless and others in need enjoy lunch at the Los Angeles Mission on Nov. 23, 2011, in celebration of Thanksgiving. Legislation to ban organizations from serving food to homeless people in public places has been proposed in Los Angeles. Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89193\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The homeless and others in need enjoy lunch at the Los Angeles Mission on Nov. 23, 2011, in celebration of Thanksgiving. Legislation to ban organizations from serving food to homeless people in public places has been proposed in Los Angeles. Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by Eliza Barclay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/10/22/357846415/more-cities-are-making-it-illegal-to-hand-out-food-to-the-homeless\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (10/22/14) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you don't have a place to live, getting enough to eat clearly may be a struggle. And since homelessness in the U.S. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/11/21/246589487/number-of-homeless-declines-again-but-gains-arent-universal\">isn't going away\u003c/a> and is even rising in some cities, more charitable groups and individuals have been stepping up the past few years to share food with these vulnerable folks in their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just as more people reach out to help, cities are biting back at those hands feeding the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"http://nationalhomeless.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Food-Sharing2014.pdf\">report\u003c/a> released Monday by the National Coalition for the Homeless, 21 cities have passed measures aimed at restricting the people who feed the homeless since January 2013. In that same time, similar legislation was introduced in more than 10 cities. Combined, these measures represent a 47 percent increase in the number of cities that have passed or introduced legislation to restrict food sharing since the coalition last counted in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest city to crack down is Fort Lauderdale, Fla. According to the \u003cem>Sun Sentinel,\u003c/em> the city's commissioners \u003ca href=\"http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fort-lauderdale/fl-lauderdale-homeless-feeding-sites-20141021-story.html\">passed a measure\u003c/a> early Wednesday that will require feeding sites to be more than 500 feet away from each other, with only one allowed per city block. They'll also have to be at least 500 feet from residential properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://nationalhomeless.org/about-us/who-we-are/\">Michael Stoops\u003c/a>, director of community organizing for the coalition and the editor of the report, says that as cities have felt more pressure to make economic development and tourism priorities, they've decided that food sharing programs — especially those that happen in public spaces and draw dozens, if not hundreds of people — are problematic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We consider measures like the one in Fort Lauderdale to be criminalizing being homeless or helping the homeless,\" says Stoops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, Stoops argues that the measures will ultimately be ineffective in addressing the real problem: homelessness itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cities' hope is that restricting sharing of food will somehow make [the] homeless disappear and go away,\" Stoops tells The Salt. \"But I can promise you that even if these ordinances are adopted, it's not going to get rid of homelessness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measures that restrict food distribution tend to take one of two forms: new rules on the use of public property and new food-safety regulations. Salt Lake City, for example, now requires that anyone preparing and serving food to the homeless get a food handler's permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cities, like Charlotte, N.C., it's not the local government that pressures the food groups to relocate or limit their programs — it's community groups practicing \"not in my backyard\" politics, or NIMBYism, according to the coalition's report. (The coalition notes that its report focuses on cities it has been able to track, but that many more cities may have anti-homeless-feeding legislation that the coalition may not be aware of.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.marbutconsulting.com/About_Us.html\">Robert Marbut\u003c/a>, a consultant based in San Antonio, helps cities and counties deal with the problem of homelessness. He says he falls somewhere in the middle in this debate. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/Looking-outside-to-University-Ave-from-the-lounge.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/Looking-outside-to-University-Ave-from-the-lounge.jpg\" alt=\"Alkymists opened in downtown Palo Alto with an emphasis on international cuisine and helping those in need. Credit: Angela Johnston\" width=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88565\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alkymists opened in downtown Palo Alto with an emphasis on international cuisine and helping those in need. Credit: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The most interesting thing about \u003ca href=\"http://alkymists.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Alkymists\u003c/a> isn’t its eclectic world fusion menu, the unusual spelling of its name, or its prime location on the bustling University Avenue in downtown Palo Alto; rather, it’s the restaurant’s unique mission, which it calls “foodanthropy,” a combination of food and philanthropy, or as it says on its menus and website, “when a nutritious substance meets the love of humankind.” In addition to providing a wide variety of food to regular customers, Alkymists says it will host a free brunch event once or twice a month for low-income residents, with an emphasis on the community of abused women and children, and low-income mothers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/Alkymists.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/Alkymists.jpg\" alt=\"Inside Alkymists restaurant. Credit: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88571\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside Alkymists restaurant. Credit: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Cook with the chef, watch movies, learn about food and people from around the world. From that group of families, those who show a passion and deeper interest in food and the industry can take an internship program at Alkymists,” says restaurateur Theirry Fassiotti, who responded to questions via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fassiotti says the restaurant will also provide cooking classes and nutrition lessons at the restaurant. His hope is that the new skills provide them with an opportunity to get jobs in restaurants and kitchens around the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alkymists is the coming together of many things to form something better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant is currently working with shelters in San Jose and San Mateo to host these brunches and classes. Fassiotti says it will be a couple of months before the first foodanthropy event is announced. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he managed restaurants in Paris, Los Angeles, and Silicon Valley, Fassiotti was living on the streets of Paris. After getting himself out of the situation, he says his mission has been to help others who aren’t as well-off. In Paris, Fassiotti worked at \u003ca href=\"http://www.restosducoeur.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Restaurants du Coeur\u003c/a>, a charity that distributes hot meals and food packages to the needy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Alkymists opened on September 24, it quickly replaced the Palo Alto Grill, which had lasted in that location on the corner of University and High Street for only a year. The name, which can be a bit confusing when you’re trying to search for it online or asking for directions, isn’t actually a play on the word alchemy, which brings to mind images of magical elixirs and tinctures. Fassiotti says the name comes from the Esperanto way of writing and saying “al ci mi,” which means “she near me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strong theme of empowering women at Alkymists is evident in more than just its mission and its name. Sepia-toned photographs of women wrap around the walls of the restaurant’s three dining areas, as well as its rentable private dining room. Sculptures and pictures of dragonflies adorn the walls, and are present on the menus: Dragonfly was the name of Fassiotti’s first philanthropy project. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 851px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/alkymists.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/alkymists.jpg\" alt=\"Photographs in the dining area at Alkymists. Courtesy of Alkymists.\" width=\"851\" height=\"315\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88667\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographs in the dining area at Alkymists. Courtesy of Alkymists.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Not only do we offer Palo Alto an exceptionally great atmosphere to order a tasty bite from our world fusion cuisine and cocktails from our house blended herbal infusions, we also offer a sense of community. The love, passion, and family feel when you walk through our doors is what stands out to us,” Fassiotti says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant seats up to 100, and has a comfortable lounge area next to the bar, which serves six types of local beer from \u003ca href=\"http://www.schubrosbrewery.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Schubros Brewery\u003c/a> in San Ramon. There’s also a selection of cocktails that are stored in big glass jars behind the bar. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The menu is extremely diverse and features a mix of cuisines from places like Latin America, North Africa and Asia, prepared by chef Jared Combs. Fassiotti calls it global street food -- things you would eat if you were traveling around the world. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/The-appetizers-like-the-pork-belly-tacos-are-influenced-by-a-variety-of-different-cuisines.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/The-appetizers-like-the-pork-belly-tacos-are-influenced-by-a-variety-of-different-cuisines.jpg\" alt=\"The appetizers like the pork belly tacos are influenced by a variety of global cuisines. Credit: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"738\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88566\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The appetizers like the pork belly tacos are influenced by a variety of global cuisines. Credit: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Appetizers range from a plate of pork belly tacos with curry glazed corn and tangy cabbage slaw ($6), to truffle burrata on house made crostini with glazed cherry tomatoes ($8.50). The braised lamb and smoked gouda dumplings were especially tasty ($11). I also enjoyed the charred Brussels sprout salad with kale, bacon and mustard vinaigrette ($11). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also section on the menu devoted to sandwiches and pizza from around the world -- harissa meatballs in bosnian bread with thai basil and curried cabbage ($14), lamb burgers stuffed in pita bread with serrano ham and sundried tomato ($14), and chorizo applewood bacon pizza on a veggie stuffed crust ($15).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/A-main-course-of-braised-short-ribs-with-cauliflower-parsnip-puree-and-a-smokey-poached-egg-new.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/A-main-course-of-braised-short-ribs-with-cauliflower-parsnip-puree-and-a-smokey-poached-egg-new.jpg\" alt=\" main course of braised short ribs with cauliflower parsnip puree and a smokey poached egg. Credit: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88563\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A main course of braised short ribs with cauliflower parsnip puree and a smokey poached egg. Credit: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The main courses are very red meat heavy and just as internationally diverse. You can choose from items like the bourbon lime spiced lamb belly with butter braised carrots, and mandarin orange and manchego risotto ($24), or the pho with oxtail beef brisket and ginger. I tried a plate of tender and flavorful braised short ribs with cauliflower parsnip puree and a smokey poached egg on top ($26). \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/The-goji-berry-creme-brule-new.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/The-goji-berry-creme-brule-new.jpg\" alt=\"The goji berry crème brûlée is a nice way to top off an evening of eating well for a good cause.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88567\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The goji berry crème brûlée is a nice way to top off an evening of eating well for a good cause.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Desserts like the lavender panna cotta ($10), and the goji berry crème brûlée ($10) also follow the menu’s world fusion theme. Alkymists is open for dinner nightly, and weekend brunch will begin on October 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://alkymists.com/menu/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>alkymists\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n140 University Ave., Palo Alto [\u003ca href=\"http://goo.gl/9PLqLr\" target=\"_blank\">Map\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\nPh: (650)321-3514\u003cbr>\nDinner Hours: Sun-Thu, 4-10pm; Fri-Sat, 4-11pm\u003cbr>\nWeekend Brunch Hours: 10am-3pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook:\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/alkymists4all\" target=\"_blank\">alkymists\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/alkymists4all\" target=\"_blank\">@alkymists4all\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice Range: $$$-$$$$ \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/Looking-outside-to-University-Ave-from-the-lounge.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/Looking-outside-to-University-Ave-from-the-lounge.jpg\" alt=\"Alkymists opened in downtown Palo Alto with an emphasis on international cuisine and helping those in need. Credit: Angela Johnston\" width=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88565\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alkymists opened in downtown Palo Alto with an emphasis on international cuisine and helping those in need. Credit: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The most interesting thing about \u003ca href=\"http://alkymists.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Alkymists\u003c/a> isn’t its eclectic world fusion menu, the unusual spelling of its name, or its prime location on the bustling University Avenue in downtown Palo Alto; rather, it’s the restaurant’s unique mission, which it calls “foodanthropy,” a combination of food and philanthropy, or as it says on its menus and website, “when a nutritious substance meets the love of humankind.” In addition to providing a wide variety of food to regular customers, Alkymists says it will host a free brunch event once or twice a month for low-income residents, with an emphasis on the community of abused women and children, and low-income mothers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/Alkymists.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/Alkymists.jpg\" alt=\"Inside Alkymists restaurant. Credit: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88571\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside Alkymists restaurant. Credit: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Cook with the chef, watch movies, learn about food and people from around the world. From that group of families, those who show a passion and deeper interest in food and the industry can take an internship program at Alkymists,” says restaurateur Theirry Fassiotti, who responded to questions via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fassiotti says the restaurant will also provide cooking classes and nutrition lessons at the restaurant. His hope is that the new skills provide them with an opportunity to get jobs in restaurants and kitchens around the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alkymists is the coming together of many things to form something better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant is currently working with shelters in San Jose and San Mateo to host these brunches and classes. Fassiotti says it will be a couple of months before the first foodanthropy event is announced. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he managed restaurants in Paris, Los Angeles, and Silicon Valley, Fassiotti was living on the streets of Paris. After getting himself out of the situation, he says his mission has been to help others who aren’t as well-off. In Paris, Fassiotti worked at \u003ca href=\"http://www.restosducoeur.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Restaurants du Coeur\u003c/a>, a charity that distributes hot meals and food packages to the needy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Alkymists opened on September 24, it quickly replaced the Palo Alto Grill, which had lasted in that location on the corner of University and High Street for only a year. The name, which can be a bit confusing when you’re trying to search for it online or asking for directions, isn’t actually a play on the word alchemy, which brings to mind images of magical elixirs and tinctures. Fassiotti says the name comes from the Esperanto way of writing and saying “al ci mi,” which means “she near me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strong theme of empowering women at Alkymists is evident in more than just its mission and its name. Sepia-toned photographs of women wrap around the walls of the restaurant’s three dining areas, as well as its rentable private dining room. Sculptures and pictures of dragonflies adorn the walls, and are present on the menus: Dragonfly was the name of Fassiotti’s first philanthropy project. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 851px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/alkymists.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/alkymists.jpg\" alt=\"Photographs in the dining area at Alkymists. Courtesy of Alkymists.\" width=\"851\" height=\"315\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88667\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photographs in the dining area at Alkymists. Courtesy of Alkymists.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Not only do we offer Palo Alto an exceptionally great atmosphere to order a tasty bite from our world fusion cuisine and cocktails from our house blended herbal infusions, we also offer a sense of community. The love, passion, and family feel when you walk through our doors is what stands out to us,” Fassiotti says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant seats up to 100, and has a comfortable lounge area next to the bar, which serves six types of local beer from \u003ca href=\"http://www.schubrosbrewery.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Schubros Brewery\u003c/a> in San Ramon. There’s also a selection of cocktails that are stored in big glass jars behind the bar. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The menu is extremely diverse and features a mix of cuisines from places like Latin America, North Africa and Asia, prepared by chef Jared Combs. Fassiotti calls it global street food -- things you would eat if you were traveling around the world. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/The-appetizers-like-the-pork-belly-tacos-are-influenced-by-a-variety-of-different-cuisines.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/The-appetizers-like-the-pork-belly-tacos-are-influenced-by-a-variety-of-different-cuisines.jpg\" alt=\"The appetizers like the pork belly tacos are influenced by a variety of global cuisines. Credit: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"738\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88566\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The appetizers like the pork belly tacos are influenced by a variety of global cuisines. Credit: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Appetizers range from a plate of pork belly tacos with curry glazed corn and tangy cabbage slaw ($6), to truffle burrata on house made crostini with glazed cherry tomatoes ($8.50). The braised lamb and smoked gouda dumplings were especially tasty ($11). I also enjoyed the charred Brussels sprout salad with kale, bacon and mustard vinaigrette ($11). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also section on the menu devoted to sandwiches and pizza from around the world -- harissa meatballs in bosnian bread with thai basil and curried cabbage ($14), lamb burgers stuffed in pita bread with serrano ham and sundried tomato ($14), and chorizo applewood bacon pizza on a veggie stuffed crust ($15).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/A-main-course-of-braised-short-ribs-with-cauliflower-parsnip-puree-and-a-smokey-poached-egg-new.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/A-main-course-of-braised-short-ribs-with-cauliflower-parsnip-puree-and-a-smokey-poached-egg-new.jpg\" alt=\" main course of braised short ribs with cauliflower parsnip puree and a smokey poached egg. Credit: Angela Johnston\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88563\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A main course of braised short ribs with cauliflower parsnip puree and a smokey poached egg. Credit: Angela Johnston\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The main courses are very red meat heavy and just as internationally diverse. You can choose from items like the bourbon lime spiced lamb belly with butter braised carrots, and mandarin orange and manchego risotto ($24), or the pho with oxtail beef brisket and ginger. I tried a plate of tender and flavorful braised short ribs with cauliflower parsnip puree and a smokey poached egg on top ($26). \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/The-goji-berry-creme-brule-new.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/The-goji-berry-creme-brule-new.jpg\" alt=\"The goji berry crème brûlée is a nice way to top off an evening of eating well for a good cause.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88567\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The goji berry crème brûlée is a nice way to top off an evening of eating well for a good cause.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Desserts like the lavender panna cotta ($10), and the goji berry crème brûlée ($10) also follow the menu’s world fusion theme. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/foodbucks_wide-04980f86fa9d971eaa9fbea8dc3c3a658144cf9b-e1412441141115.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/10/foodbucks_wide-04980f86fa9d971eaa9fbea8dc3c3a658144cf9b-e1412441141115.jpg\" alt=\"Tokens representing $1, which can be used specifically for fresh fruits and vegetables, are displayed at a Electronic Benefits Transfer, or food stamp, station in the GrowNYC Greenmarket in Union Square on September 18, 2013 in New York City. 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If a SNAP recipient uses $10 of their benefits at a farm market, they get $20 dollars worth of produce. The USDA grants, which have to be matched by private donations, will provide the $10 subsidy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those dollars benefit both low-income consumers and local, small-scale farmers. Backers of such programs say that's good for public health and local communities. \"Helping families purchase more fresh produce is clearly good for families' health, helps contribute to lower health costs for the country, and increases local food sales for family farmers,\" Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USDA also \u003ca href=\"http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2014/09/0216.xml&navid=NEWS_RELEASE&navtype=RT&parentnav=LATEST_RELEASES&edeployment_action=retrievecontent\">announced\u003c/a> $52 million in grants to support organic farming and local and regional \"food hubs.\" To illustrate what this means, Vilsack paid a visit to a Virginia farm operation (and USDA grantee) called Milton's Local Harvest, which calls itself a virtual marketplace. It connects local farmers with large-scale institutional purchasers of food who'd like to buy local but aren't set up to deal with lots of small farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both pots of money were created through the 2014 Farm Bill. \"These new programs will not only empower low-income Americans to provide their families with more healthy fruits and vegetables, they will also help strengthen local economies by investing in local food systems and organic agriculture,\" wrote Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow in \u003ca href=\"http://www.ag.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/chairwoman-stabenow-applauds-new-programs\">statement\u003c/a>. Stabenow chairs the Senate's agriculture committee, and played a big role in creating the new programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sales of locally produced food have expanded a lot over the last few years, and the USDA says this has led to new jobs. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88043\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/supermarket1_wide-25ffe9653338c2a493f1b3bf8fb031e3a3aa6f061-e1411682343886.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/supermarket1_wide-25ffe9653338c2a493f1b3bf8fb031e3a3aa6f061-e1411682343886.jpg\" alt=\"Ready-to-eat meals found in the prepared food aisle are a growing source of waste, as it is difficult to reuse meals that aren't sold but are fully cooked. Photo: Kristofor Husted/Harvest Public Media\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88043\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ready-to-eat meals found in the prepared food aisle are a growing source of waste, as it is difficult to reuse meals that aren't sold but are fully cooked. Photo: Kristofor Husted/Harvest Public Media\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by Kristofor Husted, \u003ca href=\"http://harvestpublicmedia.org/content/tossed-out\">Harvest Public Media\u003c/a> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/09/25/351495274/supermarkets-waste-tons-of-food-as-they-woo-shoppers\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (9/25/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supermarkets and restaurants serve up more than 400 million pounds of food each year, but nearly a third of it never makes it to a stomach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With consumers demanding large displays of unblemished, fresh produce, many retailers end up tossing a mountain of perfectly edible food. Despite efforts to cut down on all that waste, in the U.S., the consumer end of the food chain still accounts for the largest share. It comes down to shoppers demanding stocked shelves, buying too much and generally treating food as a renewable resource.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent visit to the Hy-Vee supermarket in Independence, Mo., illustrates the problem. Shopper Shirley Phelps scans the banana stand, looking for the perfect bunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't want them too ripe,\" she says, skipping over brown-spotted bananas in favor of a bunch still tinged with green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, produce like those brown-dotted bananas would be headed for the landfill. \"[It's a] perfectly good banana,\" says store director Paul Hoppman. But \"it won't sell because it just doesn't look good.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88045\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/supermarket2_wide-b6e81c4c47d1620115f4303666c9c080af5e1fc11-e1411682405558.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/supermarket2_wide-b6e81c4c47d1620115f4303666c9c080af5e1fc11-e1411682405558.jpg\" alt=\"Most of the unsold salad bar food at the Hy-Vee store in Independence, Mo., will be sent to composting. Photo: Kristofor Husted/Harvest Public Media\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88045\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Most of the unsold salad bar food at the Hy-Vee store in Independence, Mo., will be sent to composting. Photo: Kristofor Husted/Harvest Public Media\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hoppman says presentation is paramount to keeping business. That means culling fruit deemed too ripe and making sure the stands are stocked to the brim with perfect bounty year-round.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a fine line you're walking, having the best fruit out there that is going to taste good to the customer but not breaking down yet,\" Hoppman says. So stores are always rotating out the less desirable produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A full 10 percent of the available food supply in the U.S. is wasted every year at the retail level, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2013-june/ers-food-loss-data-help-inform-the-food-waste-discussion.aspx#.VBIJHmMgtCM\">U.S. Department of Agriculture\u003c/a>, and about 20 percent is wasted at home. That's food worth more than $160 billion. And it's food that could go toward feeding the estimated \u003ca href=\"http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/1565410/err173_summary.pdf\">1 in 7\u003c/a> American households that can't find enough to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One group that aims to rescue food from the rubbish bin to better purpose is Indiana-based \u003ca href=\"http://food-finders.org/about/\">Food Finders\u003c/a>. The group redistributes unsellable food from supermarkets and restaurants to food banks. But the group's biggest challenge, says its executive director, Katy Bunder, is finding a useful afterlife for the ready-made meals that supermarkets serve up to cater to convenience shoppers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To me the biggest amount of wasted food is prepared food,\" says Bunder. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can't repackage it, freeze it, hold on to it and then distribute it through our mobile pantry the next days,\" she says. In some states, the law requires that food that's been cooked be served right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those appetizer plates, specialized salads and hot-and-ready-to serve rotisserie chickens are unlikely to disappear from the aisles so long as hungry, harried shoppers keep scooping them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another big source of retail food waste? Consumer confusion over date labels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food safety specialist Londa Nwadike says consumers often mistake \"sell by\" and \"best by\" dates for expiration dates — which they're NOT. They're actually meant to indicate how long food has been around, not how safe it is. (Here's our \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/12/26/dont-fear-that-expired-food/\">post\u003c/a> explaining the labeling problem.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One study in the United Kingdom found that label confusion was responsible for 20 percent of the perfectly edible food that gets tossed out in homes. That confusion also sticks supermarket directors, like Hy-Vee's Paul Hoppman, with heaps of healthful food that no one will buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To reduce the food waste that gets trucked to a landfill, many supermarkets are turning to compost. Compost companies can take organic waste and turn it into a valuable soil amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hy-Vee store in Independence has cut its landfill deliveries from three times a week to three times a month, thanks to the compost pile. The store also works with church food banks that swing by daily to pick up unsold food. That earns the company a small tax write-off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the country, supermarkets are also using software that projects how much food to order from the warehouse, so they're not stuck with massive amounts of extra. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, produce like those brown-dotted bananas would be headed for the landfill. \"[It's a] perfectly good banana,\" says store director Paul Hoppman. But \"it won't sell because it just doesn't look good.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88045\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/supermarket2_wide-b6e81c4c47d1620115f4303666c9c080af5e1fc11-e1411682405558.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/supermarket2_wide-b6e81c4c47d1620115f4303666c9c080af5e1fc11-e1411682405558.jpg\" alt=\"Most of the unsold salad bar food at the Hy-Vee store in Independence, Mo., will be sent to composting. 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So stores are always rotating out the less desirable produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A full 10 percent of the available food supply in the U.S. is wasted every year at the retail level, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2013-june/ers-food-loss-data-help-inform-the-food-waste-discussion.aspx#.VBIJHmMgtCM\">U.S. Department of Agriculture\u003c/a>, and about 20 percent is wasted at home. That's food worth more than $160 billion. And it's food that could go toward feeding the estimated \u003ca href=\"http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/1565410/err173_summary.pdf\">1 in 7\u003c/a> American households that can't find enough to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One group that aims to rescue food from the rubbish bin to better purpose is Indiana-based \u003ca href=\"http://food-finders.org/about/\">Food Finders\u003c/a>. The group redistributes unsellable food from supermarkets and restaurants to food banks. But the group's biggest challenge, says its executive director, Katy Bunder, is finding a useful afterlife for the ready-made meals that supermarkets serve up to cater to convenience shoppers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To me the biggest amount of wasted food is prepared food,\" says Bunder. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can't repackage it, freeze it, hold on to it and then distribute it through our mobile pantry the next days,\" she says. In some states, the law requires that food that's been cooked be served right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those appetizer plates, specialized salads and hot-and-ready-to serve rotisserie chickens are unlikely to disappear from the aisles so long as hungry, harried shoppers keep scooping them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another big source of retail food waste? Consumer confusion over date labels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food safety specialist Londa Nwadike says consumers often mistake \"sell by\" and \"best by\" dates for expiration dates — which they're NOT. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1798px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/food-supply_slide-cf785198c7d3ea556b7589a92efe920e14e0d069.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/food-supply_slide-cf785198c7d3ea556b7589a92efe920e14e0d069.jpg\" alt=\"People shop in a Miami grocery store on July 8. USDA says that despite the drop in unemployment, the number of food insecure Americans has not declined because higher food prices and inflation last year offset the benefits of a brighter job market. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images \" width=\"1798\" height=\"1198\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87114\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People shop in a Miami grocery store on July 8. USDA says that despite the drop in unemployment, the number of food insecure Americans has not declined because higher food prices and inflation last year offset the benefits of a brighter job market. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/2100470/pam-fessler\" target=\"_blank\">Pam Fessler\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/09/03/345537318/millions-struggle-to-get-enough-to-eat-despite-jobs-returning\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (9/3/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of U.S. families that struggled to get enough to eat last year was essentially unchanged from the year before, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's \u003ca href=\"http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err-economic-research-report/err173.aspx#.VAcVaaM_vjs\">latest report\u003c/a> on \"food security.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency says that about 17.5 million families — or 1 in 7 — were food insecure last year. That means that at some point during the year, the household had trouble feeding all of its members. In 2012, the number was 17.6 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of households experiencing what the government calls \"very low food security\" — which means people actually miss meals or cut back their intake because they don't have enough money for food — was also essentially unchanged last year at 6.8 million households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-hunger groups say the fact that so many families are still struggling to put enough food on the table, even as the economy improves, is a sign that more needs to be done to help them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These startling numbers prove there has been no true economic recovery for tens of millions of struggling U.S. families,\" Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, said in a \u003ca href=\"https://nyccah.org/node/1716\">statement\u003c/a>. \"It is clearer than ever that we need a massive new government jobs program, a significant increase in the minimum wage and a robust increase in the federal nutrition safety net program.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USDA sociologist \u003ca href=\"http://www.ers.usda.gov/ers-staff-directory/alisha-coleman-jensen.aspx\">Alisha Coleman-Jensen\u003c/a>, an author of the report, says the numbers have not declined as much as one might expect with a drop in unemployment, because higher food prices and inflation last year offset the benefits of a brighter job market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She notes that over a two-year period, the drop in the percentage of struggling families was statistically significant — from 14.9 percent in 2011 to 14.3 percent last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the level of food insecurity remains much higher than it was before the recession. In 2007, about 11 percent of households struggled to get enough to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other highlights from the report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>One bright spot was a big decline in the number of families with very low food security among children. That means that at least one child in the household was hungry, skipped a meal or didn't eat for an entire day because there wasn't enough money for food. In 2012, the number was 463,000. Last year, it was 360,000.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Children in about 3.8 million households did not receive adequate, nutritious food at some point during the year. That's down slightly from 2012.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Sixty-two percent of food-insecure families reported that they received some federal food aid, such as SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits, formerly known as food stamps. In 2012, the percentage was 59 percent. 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Until recently, people were quite hopeful about the approaching harvest this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The rainfall situation was very good,\" says Shukri Ahmed, a senior economist with the U.N.'s \u003ca href=\"http://www.fao.org/home/en/\">Food and Agriculture Organization\u003c/a> in Rome. \"We were actually developing an optimistic forecast for crop production this year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then came Ebola.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first food source that disappeared from markets was \"bush meat,\" meat from forest animals. Some of those animals, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/239123/icode/\">fruit bats\u003c/a>, can actually carry Ebola, so governments have banned it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other foods have become scarce as a side effect of efforts to keep the virus from spreading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.developmentaid.org/david.mwesigwa\">David Mwesigwa\u003c/a>, the FAO's acting representative in Sierra Leone, says that when governments stopped people from moving from country to country, or even from one town to another, it stopped traders from delivering food to the markets. \"The primary impact has been on the mobility of most of the traders,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1798px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/food-aid_slide-4c9cd93724b7424b7707871c512be3111719f59f.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/food-aid_slide-4c9cd93724b7424b7707871c512be3111719f59f.jpg\" alt=\"The Liberian government delivered bags of rice, beans and cooking oil to residents of the West Point slum in Monrovia. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then came Ebola.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first food source that disappeared from markets was \"bush meat,\" meat from forest animals. Some of those animals, like \u003ca href=\"http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/239123/icode/\">fruit bats\u003c/a>, can actually carry Ebola, so governments have banned it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other foods have become scarce as a side effect of efforts to keep the virus from spreading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.developmentaid.org/david.mwesigwa\">David Mwesigwa\u003c/a>, the FAO's acting representative in Sierra Leone, says that when governments stopped people from moving from country to country, or even from one town to another, it stopped traders from delivering food to the markets. \"The primary impact has been on the mobility of most of the traders,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1798px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/food-aid_slide-4c9cd93724b7424b7707871c512be3111719f59f.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/food-aid_slide-4c9cd93724b7424b7707871c512be3111719f59f.jpg\" alt=\"The Liberian government delivered bags of rice, beans and cooking oil to residents of the West Point slum in Monrovia. The community has been quarantined because of the Ebola outbreak in the area. Photo: John Moore/Getty Images \" width=\"1798\" height=\"1198\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86609\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Liberian government delivered bags of rice, beans and cooking oil to residents of the West Point slum in Monrovia. The community has been quarantined because of the Ebola outbreak in the area. Photo: John Moore/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In quarantined areas, some food markets have been shut down completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sierra Leone, and to an even greater extent, Liberia, also import a lot of rice. Those imports are down, too. Ships are reluctant to dock in places affected by the epidemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, there's less food for sale, and prices are rising. According to Mwesigwa, people in many parts of Sierra Leone are paying 40 or 50 percent more for rice and other foods. The prices of meat and fish have doubled in some places. The situation in Liberia, he says, is similar, but probably even a bit worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While this is already cutting the ability of people to afford adequate food, things may get even worse over the coming year. This year's harvest is also in danger because communal work arrangements have broken down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Ebola came in at a time when farmers were ready to go to the field to work together, in groups,\" Mwesigwa says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people now have been advised to avoid such activities. Coming together in groups could spread the disease. So essential work like weeding the rice is not happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gon Myers, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wfp.org/\">World Food Program\u003c/a>'s representative in Sierra Leone, says when you take all these factors together \"we think there will be a food crisis after the Ebola crisis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Myers and Mwesigwa say that their organizations will need to start responding even while the Ebola outbreak continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some food aid will be required to nourish people who've been cut off from their normal supplies of food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mwesigwa says he wants to keep food aid to a minimum. Sierra Leone, in particular, has the potential to grow a lot of food itself, and it's made great \u003ca href=\"http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/52423/icode/\">progress\u003c/a> toward self-sufficiency since the country's civil war ended a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mwesigwa says international agencies can help the region's farmers get back on their feet. They can provide seeds when those are in short supply, and livestock so that people can produce more of their own meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That effort to rebuild food supplies, he says, probably will last at least one or two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>See more of NPR's \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/tags/147820238/ebola\">Ebola coverage\u003c/a>\u003cem> on the global health blog \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/\">Goats and Soda\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Photo: Pam Fessler/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on Morning Edition:\u003cbr>\nhttp://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2014/08/20140818_me_more_military_families_are_relying_on_food_banks_and_pantries.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/2100470/pam-fessler\" target=\"_blank\">Pam Fessler\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/08/18/340676181/more-military-families-are-relying-on-food-banks-and-pantries\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (8/18/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the economic recovery, more than 46 million Americans — or 1 in 7 — used a food pantry last year. And a surprisingly high number of those seeking help were households with military members, according to a new survey by Feeding America, which is a network of U.S. food banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://help.feedingamerica.org/site/PageServer/?pagename=HIA_hunger_in_america&s_src=W148REFER&s_referrer=google&s_subsrc=Feeding%20America&_ga=1.235572865.1605083190.1408224041\">survey\u003c/a> — conducted in 2013 — found that almost 620,000 of the households using Feeding America services have at least one member currently in the military. That's one-quarter of all U.S. military households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mdfoodbank.org/about-us/board-directors/\">Deborah Flateman\u003c/a>, president and CEO of the Maryland Food Bank in Baltimore, says she isn't surprised. Last year, her food bank started working with groups like the USO to provide food aid to families affiliated with nearby military bases like Fort Meade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says, so far, they've used their mobile food pantry to distribute more than 200,000 pounds of food to military families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>About 20 percent of all the households using Feeding America services include a member who is serving or has served in the military. Of those, 620,000 households have at least one member currently in the military, which is one-quarter of all U.S. military households.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"They're not unlike any of the other families that we serve,\" says Flateman. \"They meet hardship and they need assistance with food.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And other food banks and pantries say they're seeing a similar increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margaret Young is with the Calvary Assembly of God Church in Dover, Del., about a mile from Dover Air Force Base. She says she noticed about four years ago that more military families were showing up at the church food pantry for help. She says they're usually young, junior-level service members with kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And then of course they have younger spouses,\" says Young. \"And the spouses, you know, when you have to relocate every couple of months or every couple of years, however that works, it makes it harder for them to find jobs. 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That's especially the case now that the military is downsizing, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are afraid to call attention to themselves. They don't know who's getting picked to be asked to leave and who's going to get to stay and what the criteria are. And so a lot of these families are just laying low,\" says Raezer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, it can be embarrassing to admit you need help with food. Raezer wasn't at all surprised that we were unable to get any military families to go on record for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reason they go to the food bank is it's anonymous,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Raezer has no doubt the need is there, even if the Feeding America numbers seem high to her. 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Some of them are even malnourished, a condition that sets them up for all kinds of other health risks, like falling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malnutrition may go undetected — by the general public and by doctors — until the seniors show up in the emergency room, often for an injury or other reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644%2814%2900625-8/abstract\">study\u003c/a> published online on Aug. 12 in the \u003cem>Annals of Emergency Medicine\u003c/em> found that more than half of the elderly patients who visited an emergency room were malnourished or at risk for malnutrition. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16475461\">Other studies\u003c/a> have estimated that about 6 percent of elderly people living on their own are malnourished, but rates are as high as 85 percent in hospitals and long-term care facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.med.unc.edu/emergmed/about-us/people/faculty/tim-platts-mills-md\">Timothy Platts-Mills\u003c/a>, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was the lead author of the paper. He says malnourished seniors \"fly under the radar.\" And he was surprised to see the prevalence rate of malnutrition as high as it was – 60 percent — among the 138 elderly patients surveyed for the study. Each had visited the emergency department during the study's two-month period in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86229\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/malnourished-elderly-2_slide-30c6cc860c6c7132269812409ed662f26f73d42f.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/08/malnourished-elderly-2_slide-30c6cc860c6c7132269812409ed662f26f73d42f-290x193.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Neville of Catholic Services knocks before entering with a Meals on Wheels delivery to an elderly widow on March 12, in Hainesville, N.J. 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And, with about 95 calories in about a half a cup, they aren't quite as high-carb or caloric as staples like rice or corn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the jackfruit is \"an underutilized crop\" in the tropical-to-subtropical climate where it thrives, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.chicagobotanic.org/research/staff/zerega\">Nyree Zerega\u003c/a>, director of the graduate program in plant biology and conservation at Northwestern University and the Chicago Botanic Garden. In countries like India and Bangladesh, where the jackfruit was once widely cultivated, it has fallen out of favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in mid-May, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.uasbangalore.edu.in/images/attachments/home/international-symposium-on-jackfruit-and-breadfruit.pdf\">University of Agricultural Sciences in Bangalore, India\u003c/a>, will devote two days to revving up production and marketing of the jackfruit as well as its cousin, the breadfruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For parts of the world facing food insecurity — the buzz phrase for the struggle to provide enough nutritious food — the jackfruit could be manna from a tree. The tree itself requires \"relatively little care once it's been established,\" says Zerega. By contrast, popular crops like wheat, rice and corn need lots of irrigation and pesticides. And the jackfruit is a perennial so it doesn't require constant replanting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There won't be an instant payoff for new farmers. A tree takes five to seven years to bear fruit. Eventually, a yearly yield might be in the 150- to 200-fruit range, says \u003ca href=\"http://trec.ifas.ufl.edu/personnel_faculty_jcrane.shtml\">Jonathan Crane\u003c/a>, a tropical fruit crop specialist at the University of Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fruits are typically picked in summer and fall. You don't wait to harvest until they drop of their own accord — by that time, they'd be overripe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tree belongs to the mulberry family. And it's got an impressive lineage. Around 300 B.C., the Greek philosopher \u003ca href=\"http://www.iep.utm.edu/theophra/\">Theophrastus\u003c/a> wrote: \"There is also another tree which is very large and \u003ca href=\"http://tera-3.ul.cs.cmu.edu/NASD/4a7f1db4-5792-415c-be79-266f41eef20a/upgrade-archive-06-14-2007/data/upload-allbooks/disk%203/Jan%20N/ENGLISH/Common_Trees/HTML/00000022.htm\">has wonderfully sweet and large fruit\u003c/a>; it is used for food by the sages of India who wear no clothes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Probably was a jackfruit. India is thought to be its place of origin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the name \"jackfruit,\" it most likely emerged from what the Portuguese called it, \u003cem>\"jaca,\"\u003c/em> which was probably a version of a name used in southern India, \"\u003cem>chakka pazham\u003c/em>.\" Jackfruit has other names, too: \u003cem>kathal\u003c/em> in Bangladesh, \u003cem>kanun\u003c/em> in Thailand and \u003cem>nangka\u003c/em> in Malaysia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever you call it, it's a versatile food source — and thus a potential economic boon for countries that market it. Jackfruits can be dried, roasted, added to soups, used in chips, jams, juices, ice cream. The seeds can be boiled, roasted or ground into flour. Even the tree itself is valuable: high-quality, rot-resistant timber for furniture and musical instruments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or you can eat a jackfruit fresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jackfruit is made up of hundreds or even thousands of individual flowers that are fused together. We eat the \"fleshy petals\" that surround the seed, which is the actual fruit, says Zerega.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The edible portion of a young fruit has a slight crunch when you bite in. As the fruit matures, it may remain firm, but in some varieties it becomes softer and more custardlike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curious fruit lovers can find fresh jackfruits in the U.S. Zerega has bought relative peewees (12-pounders at about $2 a pound) at Asian markets in Chicago. Crane sees fresh jackfruits at Asian and Caribbean stores in Florida, where the jackfruit is grown on a limited scale and also imported from Jamaica. Bottled, canned and other products are available online and in specialty markets around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this reporting made us eager to put the jackfruit to a taste test. We couldn't find a fresh one in D.C., so we bought jackfruit packed in sugar syrup. Since Crane mentioned that frozen jackfruit is \"refreshing,\" we froze some and also ate some out of the jar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As potential tasters wafted by, the first comment was, \"Oh, it has an aroma.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aroma was compared to overripe fruit, packaged fruit cup, smelly feet, stinky cheese and pet food. But really, it wasn't that bad!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the taste: \"It tastes better than it smells,\" was a consistent opinion. The taste was described as \"mellow mango,\" a little peachy, a little pearlike. The texture was compared to chunky applesauce or overripe banana. Also a little mealy and stringy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A taster who grew up eating jackfruits said he found them too gooey as a kid, and after one bite said, \"Still too gooey.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most tasters liked it. They thought it was sweet in a good, tropical kind of way. They imagined how yummy it would be mixed with yogurt. 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In countries like India and Bangladesh, where the jackfruit was once widely cultivated, it has fallen out of favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So in mid-May, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.uasbangalore.edu.in/images/attachments/home/international-symposium-on-jackfruit-and-breadfruit.pdf\">University of Agricultural Sciences in Bangalore, India\u003c/a>, will devote two days to revving up production and marketing of the jackfruit as well as its cousin, the breadfruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For parts of the world facing food insecurity — the buzz phrase for the struggle to provide enough nutritious food — the jackfruit could be manna from a tree. The tree itself requires \"relatively little care once it's been established,\" says Zerega. By contrast, popular crops like wheat, rice and corn need lots of irrigation and pesticides. And the jackfruit is a perennial so it doesn't require constant replanting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There won't be an instant payoff for new farmers. A tree takes five to seven years to bear fruit. Eventually, a yearly yield might be in the 150- to 200-fruit range, says \u003ca href=\"http://trec.ifas.ufl.edu/personnel_faculty_jcrane.shtml\">Jonathan Crane\u003c/a>, a tropical fruit crop specialist at the University of Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fruits are typically picked in summer and fall. You don't wait to harvest until they drop of their own accord — by that time, they'd be overripe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tree belongs to the mulberry family. And it's got an impressive lineage. Around 300 B.C., the Greek philosopher \u003ca href=\"http://www.iep.utm.edu/theophra/\">Theophrastus\u003c/a> wrote: \"There is also another tree which is very large and \u003ca href=\"http://tera-3.ul.cs.cmu.edu/NASD/4a7f1db4-5792-415c-be79-266f41eef20a/upgrade-archive-06-14-2007/data/upload-allbooks/disk%203/Jan%20N/ENGLISH/Common_Trees/HTML/00000022.htm\">has wonderfully sweet and large fruit\u003c/a>; it is used for food by the sages of India who wear no clothes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Probably was a jackfruit. India is thought to be its place of origin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the name \"jackfruit,\" it most likely emerged from what the Portuguese called it, \u003cem>\"jaca,\"\u003c/em> which was probably a version of a name used in southern India, \"\u003cem>chakka pazham\u003c/em>.\" Jackfruit has other names, too: \u003cem>kathal\u003c/em> in Bangladesh, \u003cem>kanun\u003c/em> in Thailand and \u003cem>nangka\u003c/em> in Malaysia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever you call it, it's a versatile food source — and thus a potential economic boon for countries that market it. Jackfruits can be dried, roasted, added to soups, used in chips, jams, juices, ice cream. The seeds can be boiled, roasted or ground into flour. Even the tree itself is valuable: high-quality, rot-resistant timber for furniture and musical instruments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or you can eat a jackfruit fresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jackfruit is made up of hundreds or even thousands of individual flowers that are fused together. We eat the \"fleshy petals\" that surround the seed, which is the actual fruit, says Zerega.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The edible portion of a young fruit has a slight crunch when you bite in. As the fruit matures, it may remain firm, but in some varieties it becomes softer and more custardlike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curious fruit lovers can find fresh jackfruits in the U.S. Zerega has bought relative peewees (12-pounders at about $2 a pound) at Asian markets in Chicago. Crane sees fresh jackfruits at Asian and Caribbean stores in Florida, where the jackfruit is grown on a limited scale and also imported from Jamaica. Bottled, canned and other products are available online and in specialty markets around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this reporting made us eager to put the jackfruit to a taste test. We couldn't find a fresh one in D.C., so we bought jackfruit packed in sugar syrup. 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