From Every Day with Rachael Ray
November 2007
Food For Thought
My friend Tim once asked me a question that really affected—and inspired—me: "What does hunger mean to you?"
We've all been hungry for something in life. Some people are hungry for success or for money. Some are hungry for love, others for attention or approval. We're human, and we have our wants and needs, but many of us have never wanted for food.
Close your eyes and imagine, if you can, what it must be like to be a hungry child. As a kid, you already feel smaller-than and less-than. Then, you're denied the most basic of needs—food. How small do you feel now?
When you sit down to Thanksgiving dinner, be thankful for the opportunity we all have to feed others.
Food tastes better when you share it! We have the food and the heart and the capacity as a nation to end hunger, period. What does hunger mean to you? What could ending hunger mean to you? Please give to organizations committed to ending hunger, bring some dog or cat food to a local no-kill pet shelter or buy a sandwich for a hungry stranger on the street.
Have a happy, healthy and delicious Thanksgiving!
Love,
P.S. The leaves may have fallen, but the trees remain green. Starting this month, we're printing our magazine on recycled paper and saving 11,500 trees with every issue—that's 115,000 trees a year! November is our greenest issue ever: Check out "Real Cooks Network" for great earth-friendly ideas from readers, and see who won our first Greenie Award. How green are you? Take our quiz.
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