Haven’s Harvest Executive Director Lori Martin watched Tuesday as volunteers picked up four large trays of left-over Quinnipiac dining hall Monday dinner to carry them away to more needy stomachs.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Nov 27, 2019 9:07 am
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As Claudette Tracey stood between stacked boxes of frozen turkeys and tables laden with green bags full of cranberry sauce, yams, and rice, she described the expected fate of the bird she had just picked up.
“I’m Jamaican,” she said, “so I do a jerk turkey.”
No one could resist the floral and botanical metaphors Wednesday afternoon as 50 celebrants marked the opening of a new Dixwell eatery that combines fresh pizza (even for breakfast) with job-training and community-development efforts.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Sep 17, 2019 8:14 pm
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U.S. District Judge Stefan Underhill decided Tuesday to send a well-known deli owner to prison in order to “send a message” — that tax evasion is a serious crime with serious consequences.
The downtown public library relaunched its “Ives Squared” cafe with a second management crew — one that’s giving people like Tyrone Jones an entree into the labor market.
Toni Harp prefers to eat at Ernie’s rather than Pepe’s, but she’s not looking to stop other pizza-lovers from lining up at the famous Wooster Street restaurant.
Gazmir Zeneli spent nine years perfecting the Neapolitan “Queen Margherita”-style pizza as the head pizza chef for New York City’s Eataly Italian market and food hall.
Now, the Naples native and two of his brothers have brought their cheese and pizza-making prowess to their own new restaurant at the center of the city’s Pizza Row in Wooster Square.
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Maya McFadden |
Jul 22, 2019 7:35 am
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Ana De Los Angeles and her family celebrated the 10 year anniversary of their Westville cafe Manjares with the official grand opening of the coffee spot/restaurant’s bar, Manjares Tapas, and a block party as a thank-you gift to the neighborhood.
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Thomas Breen |
Jul 17, 2019 9:31 am
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A two-alarm fire at Kumo Restaurant early Wednesday morning led to the self-evacuation of four tenants, minor injuries to two firefighters, and significant damages to the downtown Japanese restaurant.
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Maya McFadden |
Jul 10, 2019 7:48 am
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After spending more than a year out of work to relocate their Jamaican style food restaurant, owner, Norma Parks and family celebrated the grand reopening of Whalley Avenue’s Caribbean Connection on Tuesday.
Westville kicked off its annual “Hi-Fi Pie” competition and fest on Monday evening with 10 homemade stone fruit pies, a live music performance by the band Zikina, and Southern-style barbeque food options from the Oak Haven Mobile Kitchen.
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Wynton Borders and Rick Lessard |
Jul 8, 2019 1:03 pm
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Along busy Dixwell Avenue in southern Hamden, just between Ali Baba’s Fusion and Barbara’s Restaurant, sits a large brown brick building with dark windows. Those who frequent the building say they once mistook it for a church or school. That’s not surprising – children and families come and go during the day carrying backpacks and plastic bags, and the backside of the building features a playground, picnic tables and a basketball court. Multiple cars usually speckle the parking lot on George Street or in the parallel parking spots along Pine Street.
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Rick Lessard and Lauren McGrath |
Jul 5, 2019 8:52 am
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Almost every Friday evening, the Grace and St. Peter’s Episcopal Church at 2927 Dixwell Ave. gives back to the Hamden community by hosting “Dinner for a Dollar.” The tradition has been going on for eight years and is aimed at helping people get a nutritious, cheap and good tasting meal.
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Kaylin Bracey |
Jul 4, 2019 8:53 am
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On a sunny Wednesday afternoon, Karen Person waited in line at a mobile food pantry truck in the parking lot of Christ the Bread of Life Parish on Circular Avenue. Out of 130 people in line, she was tenth.
With her reusable shopping bags in tow, Person selected a variety of foods including an eight-pack of low-fat yogurt, ten firm red chili peppers and a large, ripe watermelon.
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Allan Appel |
Jun 24, 2019 1:11 pm
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Nina Stanley is a teacher’s aide at Roberto Clemente Leadership Academy in the Hill. She sees lots of kids in the cafeteria come back asking for a second breakfast and a second lunch.
“They’re not picky,” she said. “They even eat vegetables. There’s a lot of hunger out there.”
Kim Hart went hungry herself once, along with her son. They had to avail themselves of food pantries and soup kitchens. “At a certain age, he wouldn’t go, because he was embarrassed. I am truly a witness to hunger.”