"Someone, somewhere is always hungry. This obvious fact, but one that's all too easy to ignore, confronted journalist Stephen Henderson with full force when he was on assignment in India. It was here that he first learned of massive soup kitchens operated by Sikh houses or worship (gundwaras). After volunteering for a week at Gundwara Bangla Sahib in Delhi--which feeds 20,000 men, women, and children every day--Henderson became curious about the very...

"John van Hengel started the world's first food bank in 1967 and went on to create a network of food banks through Feeding America. The concept of getting food that would otherwise be wasted to people who are hungry has spread throughout the world. Gottesfeld's warm text and Agatha's lively art shows that there's no shame in being hungry - the shame lies in how long it took for someone to figure out how to feed people! All it took was one person with...

"Set in and around the busyness of a food pantry and soup kitchen in a nameless town, the story lyrically describes each contribution to the lifeblood of the organization--from the farmers, who give their food to the volunteers who give their time to the recipients who give their thanks--showing how everyone can both literally and metaphorically 'stir the pot' and contribute to the effort of ending hunger."--