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  • The 24-Hour Soup Kitchen

  • Soul-Stirring Lessons in Gastrophilanthropy
  • By: Stephen Henderson
  • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
  • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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The 24-Hour Soup Kitchen

By: Stephen Henderson
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Summary

It was when traveling on assignment in India that journalist Stephen Henderson first learned of soup kitchens operated by Sikh houses of worship (or gurudwaras). After volunteering for a week at the Gurudwara Bangla Sahib in Delhi - which feeds 20,000 men, women, and children every day - Henderson became curious to research global gastrophilanthropy, or the very different ways in which hungry people are served free meals around the world.

When newspaper and magazine work dispatched him to places across America and abroad, Henderson would add days to his itineraries to learn about local customs of charitable cookery. This intriguing series of field reports reveals the clamor, chaos, and compassion of kitchens in places such as Iran, Israel, and South Korea, as well as those in Austin, Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh.

While the recipes, culinary methods, and clientele may vary, all the soul-stirring experiences share a common theme: a great way to show love to the needy is through the gift of food.

Written with a huge heart and an even bigger appetite, these chapters - sad and funny, sometimes both - may inspire you to embark on your own acts of gastrophilanthropy.

©2020 Stephen Henderson (P)2020 Tantor
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"If you cook it they will come."

The son of a Baptist preacher, later a journalist, married to a well paid partner and with an affluent lifestyle, the author was impressed by the work done in some places to 'feed the hungry and help those in trouble'. This book charts places around the world he's visited and, often, briefly worked in, from soup kitchens around the world, including Mexico, India, Japan, Korea and Israel as well as the U.S.A. and, he describes the place, the people and the food, and anecdotes about the culture, religions as well as individual personal stories. It is fascinating, surprisingly uplifting. As he comments, 'We are all human' further adding the slightly rearranged quotation, 'Do into others as you would have God do unto you'.
But this is not a preachy, religious book: it is personal, all of those running the kitchens, feeding others for free, have their own reasons for doing so and Stephen Henderson lets his readers glimpse the persons behind the ladle as well as his own thoughts and experiences. This is all captured and expressed in narrator Adam Lofbomb's exemplary performance.

Sometimes funny, occasionally sad, this is a very readable, human book. Available as a free download with the Audible Plus programme, The 24 Hour Soup Kitchen is highly recommended.

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