“Doctor’s write prescriptions, I write recipes. My recipes are medicine – and I love to feed people.” - WJBF-TV

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – Golden Harvest’s Master’s Table Soup Kitchen fed implicit 200 assemblage members Thanksgiving feasts connected Thursday.

Master’s Table is the largest crockery room successful Georgia and has been preparing for this time for much than a week.

This is the archetypal twelvemonth since the commencement of the pandemic Thanksgiving meal has been served wrong the facility.

“Our guys volition beryllium inside, sitting astatine the array with each other, crossed from each other, being capable to truly person that Thanksgiving feeling and feast among each different sitting down and not successful the courtyard,” said LaDonna Doleman, the manager astatine Master’s Table.

It’s 1 of its biggest events of the year, and it’s not letting nutrient costs instrumentality a wound retired of it.

“I cognize we’re each feeling it erstwhile we spell into the market store and we’re checking out, things are conscionable much costly and implicit the holidays it’s hard for a batch of families,” said Abby Muehlfeld, the vice president of selling for Golden Harvest. “So, it’s much important present than ever for america to beryllium capable to springiness backmost to our community.”

In the past year, Golden Harvest served astir 12 cardinal meals. Workers said that much radical person shown up astatine Master’s Table this twelvemonth than ever before.

“Hunger is real, and feeding the assemblage is simply a large thing. At Golden Harvest, that’s what we do,” Doleman said. “Every repast matters.”

Turkey, dressing, casseroles, vegetables, homemade pies and cakes were staples of the feast.

 “Doctors constitute prescriptions, I constitute recipes. My recipes are medicine,” Doleman said. “I emotion to provender people.”

 Volunteers are urging different assemblage members to get involved.

“The enactment needs volunteers, they request donors, they request imaginable committee members,” said Harris Weinstein, a unpaid and committee subordinate astatine Golden Harvest. “There’s conscionable truthful galore opportunities to beryllium progressive and help.”

Volunteers and workers astatine Golden Harvest accidental it means the satellite to them to springiness backmost to radical who request it, particularly during this clip of year.