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High demand for B.C. food service program for people with diverse abilities

Harman Singh Gill is getting trained for every role at Bandra Cafe, where he started working after graduating from a food service assistant program designed for people with diverse abilities. (Sobia Moman photo)Harman Singh Gill is getting trained for every role at Bandra Cafe, where he started working after graduating from a food service assistant program designed for people with diverse abilities. (Sobia Moman photo)
Left to right: Lionel Crasto (co-owner), Harman Singh Gill and Raunaq Nathowalia (co-owner). (Sobia Moman photo)Left to right: Lionel Crasto (co-owner), Harman Singh Gill and Raunaq Nathowalia (co-owner). (Sobia Moman photo)
Harman Singh Gill is getting trained for every role at Bandra Cafe, where he started working after graduating from a food service assistant program designed for people with diverse abilities. (Sobia Moman photo)Harman Singh Gill is getting trained for every role at Bandra Cafe, where he started working after graduating from a food service assistant program designed for people with diverse abilities. (Sobia Moman photo)

From overseeing the fry station, to taking inventory, handling incoming deliveries and cleaning, Harman Singh Gill does it

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Left homeless by Turkey’s earthquake, many people can’t get food, water or heat : NPR

A 26-year-old pregnant woman named Talibe Gezginci cleans her tent in a makeshift camp for displaced people in Gaziantep.

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A 26-year-old pregnant woman named Talibe Gezginci cleans her tent in a makeshift camp for displaced people in Gaziantep.

Erin O’Brien for NPR

GAZIANTEP, Turkey — At a camp for displaced people inside the municipal stadium in downtown Gaziantep, in southeast Turkey, families devastated by this week’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake say they are struggling to survive. In a camp set up by Turkey’s disaster relief arm, and in makeshift

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Celebrity Chef Salt Bae Pledges To Feed 5,000 People Every Day In Turkey

In the wake of the terrible 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria, several nations and organizations have pledged to send rescue personnel, emergency supplies, and other forms of assistance. 

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Nusr-et Gokce, commonly known as ‘Salt Bae,’ is a celebrity chef from the Turkish province of Pasali who has stepped forward to aid his fellow countrymen in the wake of the calamity.

The well-known restaurateur has promised to feed at least 5,000 earthquake victims daily by sending a mobile kitchen to the affected area.

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The 39-year-old chef described his food drive as his “most important and meaningful service

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The 41 Best Gifts (2022) For Food People

Each year our staff and contributors round up the best gift ideas for cooks, eaters, and the kitchen-curious. Read on for our ultimate gift guide for all the food people on your list.

It’s the season for togetherness, charity, goodwill toward mankind! Also presents. Mostly presents. While there are people on your list who require but a token, a trinket, a just-a-little-something (check out our list of gift ideas under $50 for those folks), there are others who require something…more. For your loving hubs, your friend who’s had a rough year, or your favorite child (you know which one), these

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Indiana Food Box Group Aims to Help Hungry People | News

Melissa Adam was moved when she saw a man looking for dumplings for his next meal.

She and Samuel Frassenay felt that no one should be so hungry. So they anonymously began to leave Styrofoam containers full of food every night.

Six months later, what used to be just a container for safe food is now an organization called the Indiana Food Box Group.

“It happened very organically,” said Frassenay of Saltsburg.

The food box is located at Fox’s Pizza Den in Blairsville and Homer City, partly owned by Frassenay.

He met Adams in Bolivar when she started working for

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Survey finds people unsure of safe meat cooking temperatures

More than half of Northern Ireland’s home cooks are unclear about how to barbeque meat to the correct safe temperatures, according to recently released survey results.

Results revealed that 55 percent of participants didn’t know what temperature meat should be cooked to. Responses ranged from 30 degrees C to 260 degrees C (86 degrees F to 500 degrees F). About half of people surveyed at least occasionally overcooked meat to ensure it was safe to eat.

Research by safefood found fewer than 2 percent of 1,052 adults on the island of Ireland are following all necessary the food safety checks

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