Transcript:
Chris Molinari:
Italians wake up and have coffee thinking about what they’re gonna have for lunch.
I’d eat a sandwich, but I’d I’d knock you over for spaghetti. We even got our name on the bag. My mother used to tease me. She says, you’re trying to embezzle heaven.
I never know a hundred percent for certain until we start cooking the meal exactly what it’s gonna be because guess what? If it’s free, I’m cooking
Yeah. Chicken cacciatore was the last thing. Our whole idea is that it shouldn’t go to waste.
I might have a meal planned, but that meal’s prepped and in the refrigerator or something comes in the door, we’ll cook that and send it out, you know, and this way, we’ll make sure we put it to good use.
We’ll cook a Mexican style meal, an Asian style meal, an Italian style meal. You can’t live in New York, you know, and not not eat a lot of different things or unless you wanna be boring.
I mean, I’ve done my job right. At the end of the week, the garbage bills are empty.
We’re all very lucky. You know, we live in a country where I mean, you know, this food cost, like, two dollars.
It’s our responsibility. Sometimes I feel very lucky to be able to help, but that’s it. I mean, it – excuse me. Sorry.
These people that come knocking on the door because they have nothing else.
You know? And then if I’m gonna be between them and nothing else, I like to say the last light on.
The last light on. You know? And they looked at me, say, “I can go there.” This is my father and my grandfather. He had a rule. He says somebody comes to you and says that they’re hungry, you feed them.
You wake up in the morning with just as much money in your pocket.
