I didn’t know at the time, but when I was a little girl, my mother Mary, often struggled to put food on the table for my sister and me. You see, she grew up in poverty in rural Texas. For reasons I’ll never know, her parents removed her from school after she finished...
Every weekday, our team of soup kitchen chefs arrives bright and early at 6 AM to start preparing a delicious, healthy meal for approximately 1,000 hungry New Yorkers. From bringing in grocery deliveries, chopping meat and vegetables in the downstairs prep kitchen,...
Voice of a Chef: Carlton I’m Carlton, one of the chefs at Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen. I help to prepare more than 1,000 meals each weekday for homeless and hungry New Yorkers. I know what it is to be hungry and homeless. I know what it’s like not knowing where your...