Food Is Medicine for Individuals Affected by Homelessness: Findings from a Participatory Soup Kitchen Menu Redesign by Marianna S. Wetherill, Lacey T. Caywood, Nicholas Hollman, Valarie P. Carter, Joshua Gentges, Ashli Sims, Carrie Vesely Henderson

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Social Support Actions as Forms of Building Community Resilience at the Onset of the Crisis in Urban Greece: The Case of Chania by Marina Papadaki, Stefania Kalogeraki

“…The chapter presents the findings of a study applying the quantitative approach of event analysis and based on a community resilience framework explores social support activity including soup kitchens, free distribution of clothes and other basic products, free health care, educational services in a Greek urban society, i.e. …”
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Not Just Solidarity Providers. Investigating the Political Dimension of Alternative Action Organisations (AAOs) during the Economic Crisis in Greece by Angelos Loukakis

“…The answer to this humanitarian problem has been given by thousands of formal and informal initiatives and organisations and their solidarity actions, such as barter networks, food banks, consumers-producers networks, soup kitchens, new cooperatives, social economy enterprises and free legal advice. …”
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Building Capacity Between the Private Emergency Food System and the Local Food Movement: Working Toward Food Justice and Sovereignty in the Global North by Jesse C. McEntee, Elena N. Naumova

“…One area of food system research that remains overlooked in terms of making urban-rural distinctions explicit is the private emergency food system of food banks, food pantries, soup kitchens, and emergency shelters that exists throughout the United States. …”
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Diaconia as the Art of the Possible: Diaconal Engagement for Roma Migrants in Oslo, Norway by Bjørn Hallstein Holte

“…In the Nordic countries, as in other countries, service provision for Roma migrants is largely in the hands of non-governmental organisations, many of them diaconal organisations running emergency shelters, soup kitchens, and other humanitarian services to alleviate suffering for people at the margins of the welfare state. …”
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Non-market distribution serves society in ways markets cannot by Sam Bliss, Alexandra Bramsen, Raven Graziano, Ava Hill, Saharay Perez Sahagun, Flora Krivak-Tetley

“…Yet food pantries and soup kitchens tend to imitate supermarkets and restaurants—their market counterparts—since purchasing food is considered the dignified way to feed oneself in a market economy. …”
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Non-market distribution serves society in ways markets cannot by Sam Bliss, Alexandra Bramsen, Raven Graziano, Ava Hill, Saharay Perez Sahagun, Flora Krivak-Tetley

“…Yet food pantries and soup kitchens tend to imitate supermarkets and restaurants—their market counterparts—since purchasing food is considered the dignified way to feed oneself in a market economy. …”
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Six Critical Solutions to Fix Peoria’s Community Emergency Food Assistance System by Kim A. Keenan

“…In the city of Peoria (population just over 114,000), where I co-founded the Gifts in the Moment Foundation (the gitm Foundation), there are over 40 soup kitchens and food pantries that directly serve families as part of the emergency food assistance system. …”
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Activities and roles of mosques in Japan after the recent major earthquakes: A comprehensive study by Hitomu Kotani, Hirofumi Okai, Mari Tamura

“…Some mosques also functioned as evacuation shelters, soup kitchens, and accommodations for volunteers. Support for affected people was further facilitated by intermediaries (such as private organizations and key local individuals) between the mosques and local communities or governments. …”
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Indonesian International Students in Australia during the COVID-19-Pandemic: Coming Out Stronger? by Antje Missbach, Jemma Purdey

“…Throughout 2020 and 2021, Australian media outlets offered shocking reports and images of international students who had lost their homes and were queuing at soup kitchens. Experts feared that these images and the overall treatment of international students would do long-lasting damage not only to the education sector but also to Australia’s people-to-people relations overseas. …”
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Hannah Jessie Hankin-Hardy, in medical and humanitarian mission in Serbia during the great war by Popović-Filipović Slavica

“…She also founded the out-patients ambulances for the poor in Kragujevac, as well as the soup kitchens, and took part in various humanitarian activities. …”
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La política desde abajo: Una aproximación etnográfica a las actitudes políticas de la ciudadanía vulnerable by Kerman Calvo, Andrés Martín

“…This article uses observation and interviewing with users of soup kitchens, support groups and housing related forms of activism (the PAH, for instance). …”
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Food access, mobility, and transportation: a survey and key informant interviews of users of non-profit food hubs in the City of Vancouver before and during the COVID-19 crisis by Daniel Rajasooriar, Tammara Soma

“…Abstract Background In the City of Vancouver, Canada, non-profit food hubs such as food banks, neighbourhood houses, community centres, and soup kitchens serve communities that face food insecurity. …”
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Tax measures to reduce food losses and waste in the United States and the European Union: a comparative analysis by Sofía Arana Landín

“…Special attention is paid regarding tax policies in cases where food is donated to Social Economy Entities such as food banks, non-profit foundations, or soup kitchens as taxes can both act as barriers or facilitators to this aim; therefore, it is crucial to implement them correctly to ensure they act as true enablers to achieve the target. …”
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Famine food of vegetal origin consumed in the Netherlands during World War II by Tom Vorstenbosch, Ingrid de Zwarte, Leni Duistermaat, Tinde van Andel

“…The Dutch government took action by opening soup kitchens and providing information on wild plants and other famine food sources in “wartime cookbooks.” …”
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A CRITICAL ETHIC OF CARE FOR THE HOMELESS APPLIED TO AN ORGANISATION IN CAPE TOWN by Kathleen Collins

“…The researcher volunteered within the church-based organisation U-turn, interacting with clients at a soup kitchen in Cape Town, South Africa. Using an ethnographic approach, the researcher was faced with dilemmas emerging from Tronto’s (1993) “ethic of care”. …”
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The Story of the Architectural Documentation of Hagia Sophia’s Hypogeum by Diker Hasan Fırat

“…Hagia Sophia’s hypogeum is a group of subterranean Roman tomb structures located in the area between the northeastern side of the structure and the imaret (“soup kitchen”) of Hagia Sophia. Consisting of three chambers connected by a passage, the hypogeum is dated to the fourth century and older than the current Hagia Sophia. …”
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Osmanlı Tekke Mutfak Kültürü ve Mecmuâ-i Fevâid / The Ottoman Dervish Lodge Cuisine and Majmūʿa al-fawāʾid by Güldane

“…In this regard, the lodge was seen as a complex and this structure encompasses different units such as imaret or soup kitchen, mosque, tomb, library, dervish cells, public fountains, bakery and bathhouse. …”
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