Food in times of Crysis

Matt Villamana

2/25/13

Culinary

Food in Times of Crisis

How much food was enough food? On the December fourteenth massacre there was many people who responded. Many of who were very hungry. Within hours of the incident there was food being delivered to the sandy hook fire house. And when I mean food I mean a lot of it, this was by far the most amount of food I have ever seen before. In fact someone called Carmanuccios our local pizza shop and asked to have 100 pizzas delivered to the fire house.  If you put it all together we had month’s worth of food being delivered each day to the fire house. The fire house had to get a refrigerator trailer to store all of the food in. even though we had  pizza boxes stacked up to the ceiling, It wasn’t only the place getting food as a member of Newtown ambulance I saw first hands the two emergency service companies had acquired significant amounts of food. We also can’t forget about Newtown police who had to use our refrigerator trailer because they ran out of places to store all the food.  It got to the point where we had to start to turn people away because we were just accumulating too much food.  We also can’t forget the people who donated thousands of dollars to food establishments like Panara Bread and peach wave so that Newtown residents could get free food.  It just goes to say when there’s so much hate there’s so much love and people show that through food.