What are you having for dinner tonight? It’s a simple question but one in six Americans don’t know where their next meal will come from.
That’s not the case for some diners tonight.
Mostly local, organic cuisine spans the menu at one Denver, Colorado, restaurant.
Such healthy food could be pricey, but not there: It’s pay what you can in money or time.
“I volunteered today. I was raking leaves and there was some spilled dirt on the cement. I’ve done all sorts of things here though, like doing the dishes, making spaghetti sauce, gutting squashes, all sorts of stuff,” said Kiernan Cooper, a SAME Café patron.
SAME Café is the brain child of Libby Birky and her husband.
Libby says, “We came up with the idea after serving at soup kitchens and shelters and saw that the quality of food that was available to folks in need was pretty poor and there was very little access to fresh fruits, and vegetables. We also saw it was pretty undignified so we wanted to do something about that.”
Today’s menu features a popular savory butternut squash soup.
“So we’re going to add the carrots, onions and celery to our vegetable stock that’s been heating on the stove. We have peeled, roasted butternut squash here that we actually had in the freezer so it’s been seasoned with salt and pepper and we’re just going to add that to the vegetable stock,” Libby says.
Then it is pureed all together.
Some come for the great food, some to support the concept, others come for both.
SAME Café patron Jason Balducci says, “I love it. Like I really, really appreciate the concept of it all. You get a good meal from quality ingredients for a very inexpensive price.”
SAME Café is looking to purchase a food truck so organic cuisine can be offered on-the-go.
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