Food for Hope

While this is indirectly related to food, it is directly related to humanity. Culinary Tour de France is a restaurant group that offers the celebrated cuisines of France in Manhattan. The group donated $30,000 to City Harvest in conjunction with the One Mouth Can Make a Difference Campaign. Throughout last month in April, diners were able to add $1 to their check at Cafe d’Alsace, French Roast Downtown, French Roast Uptown, L’Express, Le Monde, Maison, Marseille, Nice Matin, and Pigalle for City Harvest, New York City’s only food rescue program. Tour de France also donated $1 from each prix fixe menu item ordered at the restaurants. The Tour de France Restaurant Group and their patrons should be recognized for helping City Harvest feed the growing number of New Yorkers now seeking emergency food. As it says on their website:

"...City Harvest is the world’s first food rescue organization, dedicated to feeding the city’s hungry men, women and children. This year, City Harvest will collect 23 million pounds of excess food from all segments of the food industry, including restaurants, grocers, corporate cafeterias, manufacturers and farms. This food is then delivered free of charge to more than 600 community food programs throughout New York City using a fleet of trucks and bikes as well as volunteers on foot. Each week, City Harvest helps over 260,000 hungry New Yorkers find their next meal."

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