Event Horizon      11/21/2008  

Convivio Does the Right Thing For The Homebound, and You Too

Calvin Trillin used to maintain an ongoing campaign to replace turkey with spaghetti carbonara as the official meal of Thanksgiving. I thought of this when reading, earlier today, of Convivio’s Michael White and Chris Cannon’s plan to donate a portion of their Thanksgiving haul to City Meals on Wheels. Does this provide me with an excuse to go eat spaghetti carbonara at Convivio? I needed no such excuse last night, as my twitter correspondents surely know by now.  From the release:

Convivio has 110 seats and can serve up to 300 diners total on Thanksgiving.   $25 from each meal will go towards food for 4 elderly, so if Convivio serves their Thanksgiving meal to capacity, they have the potential to ‘feed’ 1,200 homebound elderly.  If you factor Christmas Eve dinner in as well—when Convivio can serve up to 240 diners—they can potentially feed 960 more homebound elders.  A total this holiday season of over 2,000 homebound elderly fed.

In this way, you can see that it is your moral duty to eat heaping bowls of fusili with pork ragu and caciocavallo fonduta, plump duck sausage, testa with watermelon rind, squid-ink tagliatelle with briny, supple sepia, big Creekstone steaks, sardinian malloredous with sea urchin and crab and little breadcrumbs, and all the other things Convivio serves that are better than turkey.

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