The Occupy Wall Street diet

posted at 11:14 am on October 19, 2011 by
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Protesting corporate greed builds quite an appetite. Luckily for the hordes at Zuccotti Park, one of their fellow protesters is a trained chef. The New York Post reports:

Hundreds of grimy protesters laying siege to Wall Street … dine each night on gourmet meals prepared by a former hotel chef using only the finest organic ingredients.

The park’s chef de kyoozeen is Eric Smith, 38, formerly of the Sheraton New York. After losing his job last year, Smith began donating time at a soup kitchen in East New York, Brooklyn. Recently, he began manning the chuck wagon at the downtown Manhattan encampment, which is now in its fifth week. Says Smith of the meals he provides:

The other day, we made some wonderful salmon cakes with dill sauce and some quinoa salad and a wonderful tomato salad with fennel and red onion.

We use organic, grass-fed meats, and the other day, we made a wonderful fried rice and root vegetables and all kinds of soup.

Sounds wonderful.

Last night, the menu included chicken (organic, natch), spaghetti Bolognese, roasted beet and sheep’s milk-cheese salad, and wild heirloom potatoes. It is doubtful that the Masters of the Universe on Wall Street ate better.

The Post notes that the food is donated by farms upstate as well as in Connecticut and Vermont. When a fresh shipment of supplies is ready, a driver collects the goodies and trucks them back to the park.

Now if only someone would donate mattresses and plumbing, the protesters would really feel at home.

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Meanwhile, peopel with an ACTUAL need for meals daily, are probably dining on watered down soups, and dry bread, to make the meals spread further.

capejasmine on October 19, 2011 at 11:30 AM

After the first snowfall and the looters in the park leave for warmer climes, will those same farms upstate and in CT & VT still contribute to actual soup kitchens? Come on, people, keep that warm charitable feeling going.

Kissmygrits on October 19, 2011 at 12:40 PM

The other day, we made some wonderful salmon cakes with dill sauce and some quinoa salad and a wonderful tomato salad with fennel and red onion.
We use organic, grass-fed meats, and the other day, we made a wonderful fried rice and root vegetables and all kinds of soup.

No wonder he got fired from the Sheraton.

SAMinVA on October 19, 2011 at 12:43 PM

No wonder he got fired from the Sheraton.

:-)

Howard Portnoy on October 19, 2011 at 2:01 PM

If you want to hear an unscripted version of what food is like at Occupy Dallas, here is a recording of their “General Assembly” from 13 October . Around the 28 minute mark, someone gets up in front of 120 or more unemployed people and begs for some of them to help him prepare meals for everyone else in the park.

Then, at the 32 minute mark, “Cricket” gets up to talk about the food situation at “Occupy Dallas”.

I feel like in the kitchen, food is there to be eaten, not to be ea.., not to buy, … moderated. I would like to eat the food when I would like to eat the food. If someone is cooking we can wait I would still like to go get the food I would like to get because
sometimes I don’t really like soy bars but I do like pretzels and I do like granola bars. So therefore I will eat pretzels and granola bars all day if I feel like it! OK!”

Stegall Tx on October 19, 2011 at 7:09 PM