Sacramento woman’s charity dinner would feed poor and rich

[KamaAina]

http://www.sacbee.com/food-drink/chris-macias/article4281078.html

Maya Wallace wants to throw a dinner party that goes beyond good food and merry mingling. As the external affairs director for Sacramento Steps Forward, a nonprofit that specializes in homeless services, Wallace envisions an evening when 100 folks from the extreme ends of the socioeconomic spectrum break bread together.

The very rich would share locally sourced foods with those who might otherwise not know when their next meal was coming. Conversation and dialogue would flow about the best strategies for serving the local homeless population, which numbers 2,500 in Sacramento County....

The dinner idea harkens to a recent soiree in Manhattan, an affair for 500 that gathered the city’s wealthy and homeless at St. Bartholomew’s Church. The menu included roasted turkey and red velvet cake for dessert, with a saxophonist and pianist providing tunes.

Sacramento has hosted a similar affair. A “Farm to Every Fork” dinner was held Sept. 13 at midtown’s Trinity Cathedral. Tickets cost $150, but the price also covered a meal for someone far outside the target demographic for fancy dining. Those diners were either homeless or otherwise having difficulty putting food on their own tables, in some cases depending on government assistance. They sat in tables of eight: Four who paid the $150, and four much less fortunate folks.

[dilby]

1. Sounds like they are using poor people as an attraction for the rich, kind of like a zoo.

Let us take poor people and give them a little taste of something that is being kept away from them by the same people who are sitting next to them. Then let us take rich people and make them feel like they did a little bit of good works for the year because well they let a poor person experience how great it is to be rich.