There are lots of hungry people out there and yet (as Nanny Bloomberg would like to remind you) portions keep getting bigger for the already sated. Worse, billions in food gets thrown away each year. So now a non-profit in Texas is trying to connect the dots, and they'd like to hit NYC this Spring. Halfsies, anybody? more ›

If you've been paying attention to the Internet today, you may have seen some things indicating that it's Food Day. Yes: Food Day. Unlike every other day, in which people subsist only on cigarettes and self-hatred. So, what exactly is Food Day? more ›

City Council speaker Christine Quinn is questioning Bloomberg's decision to make food stamp applicants in the city get fingerprinted, calling out the practice as expensive and unnecessary. Statewide, where one in five people are on food stamps and 2.5 million people can't afford enough food, fingerprinting is not required, but in New York City it is, making the city one of only two areas in the country requiring fingerprinting (the other is in Arizona). more ›

Prepare your hankies for a Very Special upcoming episode of ever-relevant Sesame Street covering a not-so-cute issue: hunger. Meet Lily, a new Muppet created to represent one of the 17 million American children who are going hungry today. So much for sunny days. more ›

Some distressing stats come from the USDA today: 2.5 million New Yorkers surveyed between 2008 and 2010 couldn't afford enough food, a number that's jumped by more than 50 percent from 2005-2007. 702,000 state residents are officially going hungry, the highest level ever recorded for the state; and one in seven residents suffer from "low food security," meaning that even if they're not technically going hungry they still can't afford a sufficient supply of food at some point during the year. more ›

Food stamps are all the rage these days—one in five New Yorkers are on 'em, using stamps to pay for everything from Wonder bread to organic Japanese eggplant. So it makes sense that more businesses would want a piece of the food stamp pie—businesses like fast food restaurants, to be exact. more ›

While we realize that most of you have probably eaten (or NOT) your lunch by now, we're curious to see which of these holidays, both of which took place this very afternoon, you chose to observe: Eat What You Want Day vs. Skip Lunch Fight Hunger Day. So. Are you a glutton or a saint? more ›

Even though the Bronx has some of the highest obesity rates in the nation, it also has some of the hungriest people, according to recent study. The Times says the seeming contradiction can be explained through a redefinition of the word “hunger.” These days “food insecure” is the term used by researchers to describe low-income people who have high calorie diets with poor nutritional value. “Hunger and obesity are often flip sides to the same malnutrition coin,” said Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger. But what is the city doing about it? more ›

This is just sad. The Bronx neighborhoods of Morrisania, Mott Haven and Bedford Park have a larger percentage of households suffering from hunger than any other urban area in the nation, according to a new study [PDF]. Researchers also determined that a swath of Brooklyn consisting of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Canarsie and East New York has the country's sixth highest rate of hunger. more ›

In the distressing news pile today, a new study was released revealing that people are still going hungry in NYC in increased numbers. According to a report by the NYC Coalition Against Hunger (PDF), the number of people seeking emergency food services has risen nearly 21 percent from last year. While the survey finds "fewer agencies ran out of food than the year before," thanks to federal stimulus money, some food pantries are struggling to meet the growing need. more ›

Down at the Winter Garden in the World Financial Center, this year's Canstruction exhibit is underway, with 100,693 cans being used to make ingenious sculptures to benefit City Harvest. All these sculptures were assembled in a single night, and yesterday the winners were announced, with jurors declaring "Feed the Bank (Piggy Bank)," by Arianna Braun Architects, PLLC, best in show. The award for Best Use of Labels went to the Beatles-inspired "We Get By With A Little Help From Our Friends," by Ted Moudis Associates. Best Structural Ingenuity went to "A Fungus to Feed Us" by Platt Byard Dovell White Architects more ›

A report released Tuesday by the Food Bank for New York City has found that approximately four million New Yorkers—one in two—are having trouble paying for groceries, a 26 percent increase since the last survey in February. The Hunger Experience 2008 Update also found that college degrees are increasingly useless protection against indigence; one out of every three (36 percent) NYC college graduates had difficulty affording needed food this year, up from 11 percent in 2003. Lucy Cabrera, the food bank's president, says, "The results of this report are devastating. These numbers should be a wake-up call for all New Yorkers." The Food Bank NYC sources and distributes food to the estimated 1.3 million New Yorkers who rely on emergency food. Today you've got until noon to help the Food Bank by bidding on one of their cool celebrity decorated lunchboxes. (Just please don't outbid us on Mike D's Jacob the Jeweler box.) more ›

We hope the following doesn't put anyone off their appetite before they've even had a chance to tuck into their Thanksgiving feast, but we have to describe what champion eater Tim Janus managed to consume in a publicity feast for charity. In the course of 15 minutes, Janus gobbled down the following:A 10-pound turkey Four pounds of mashed potatoes Three pounds of cranberry sauce Two and a half pounds of green beans This was accomplished... more ›