Sophomore Katie Hacket and junior Austin Pavone will help with Ridgefield High School’s Project Empty Bowls dinner, a collaboration of ceramics and culinary arts classes. For $25 supporters will get a simple meal of bread, salad and soup in a ceramic bowl made by art students, that they can take home. Money raised supports the Ridgefield Food Pantry and Bread and Roses, the Georgetown residence and charity for HIV patients. It’s next Thursday, May 28, with seatings at 5 and 6:30. For reservations, contact Lori Peck at lpeck@ridgefield.org. —Peter Halmos photo.
A meal of soup, salad and bread — with a handmade ceramic soup bowl to take home — will be offered by Ridgefield High School students as part of a fund-raiser to benefit the Ridgefield Food Panty and Bread and Roses, the Georgetown residence and charity for HIV patients.
Project Empty Bowls, as the fund-raiser is called, will be Thursday, May 28, in Ridgefield High School’s staff dining room (room G239), with seatings at 5 and 6:30.
Tickets are $25.
“Essentially, the idea is you buy a ticket to a modest meal, and for the price of that ticket you get a bowl to take with you that is handmade, and all the money goes to feed the hungry,” said RHS culinary arts teacher Lori Peck.
Reservation for either seating may be made by contacting her through email — lpeck@ridgefield.org — or by telephone at 203-894-5750, ext. 11057.
The fund-raiser is a student effort, with visual arts ceramics students and the culinary arts classes teaming up on the evening.
“They’ll make all the food, they’ve made the bowls, they’ll be serving the food,” Peck said.
“The meal is going to be a choice of soup, salad and bread, and drinks and dessert,” she said.
“It’s supposed to be a modest meal. You’re supposed to be thinking, ‘I’m not eating high on the hog tonight, I’m thinking about feeding somebody else.’
“But, trust me,” she added, “the food will be good.”
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