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By Irene Glasser

More Than Bread examines existence within the eating room of the Tabernacle Soup Kitchen, positioned in center urban in a brand new England kingdom. What occurs while 100 visitors, which come with unmarried moms, drug addicts, alcoholics, the mentally ailing, and the chronically unemployed, representing different age teams and ethnicities, come jointly within the eating room for a number of hours on a daily basis? Irene Glasser demanding situations the preferred assumption that soup kitchens functionality basically to supply meals for the hungry by way of refocusing our consciousness at the social facets of the eating room. The soup kitchen bargains a version of a de-professionalized, nonclinical, nurturing atmosphere that's not like the conventional human companies agency.

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