The abundance of Thanksgiving does not guarantee a full plate for all.

Founder Ravi DeRossi has taken his East Village vision west.

“Prior to digital, I used to sit on the floor for hours, stuffing color slides into plastic slide sleeves, so as to get the proper imagery to journalists that would accompany the written press releases.”

“The business changed drastically in the nine years we were doing the show to the point where I don’t think ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ would have gotten on the air the year it went off the air.”

“What came first more than anything was sharing in the exuberance of life—people, song, dance, good food—in an environment with no pretenses.”

The FDA hasn’t made any progress in keeping food safe for decades