David Hertz

“We were born to be afraid of the homeless, because we don’t know anything else,” Hertz says. “But after you serve, and you talk to people and you look into their eyes, it changes, because you see that you are not better than them. In the end, I can say that 99 percent of the people that come as volunteers, they always say that they got more than what they gave.”

“When I cook, I feel the journey of my life around me, and all of the places I’ve been — something opens my sight and also connects me to the ground,“ Hertz says. “I want everyone to see food as a tool for reconnecting to yourself, to your family, but also to your community and to nature. Social gastronomy can do that.”

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