User:SoupTeam
Welcome to SoupTeam for Occupy Boston!
As members of the greater Boston community we support the Declaration of Occupation and the constitutional right to camp at Dewey Square as protected free speech.
So we make soup. This is how it works:
SoupTeam -Hot soup for Occupy Boston
Ready to host a soup making party?
- pick out a recipe
- pick a date and time that the soup will be hot and ready for pickup
- assemble the ingredients or assign this to a team member
- invite friends and their pots, blenders or ingredients
- list the ingredients for the occupiers
- receive the empty container and clean
Want to solicit soup from a restaurant?
- Make the connection
- agree to a date and time to pick up hot soup
- list the ingredients for the occupiers
Want to volunteer to pick up hot soup and deliver to Dewey Square?
- sign up with a soup maker at a day and time that works for you
- Pick up soup and drive to Dewey Square*
- drive to drop off and announce soup delivery*
Map here
Want to volunteer to pick up an empty thermos?
- sign up for the night of a dropoff to pick up
- pick up the empty thermos at the food tent*
- bring it back to the soup kitchen
- clean the thermos
Cleaning the thermos
- Clean as you normally would using dishsoap. Our friends at Harvest Catering instructed us to add two tablespoons of bleach to the washing water.
Want to help buy a 3.5 gallon thermos? 10 sponsers and we have a container.
- send $10. check to Peri Levin McKenna
12 Parley Vale JP 02130*
FAQ
- What ingredients can I use?
- About 30% of the occupiers are vegetarian but 70% eat meat.
- How large is the thermos?
- 3.5 gallons
- How much soup is that?
- Approximately 40 12 ounce servings.
- How do you cook that much soup?
- Our biggest pot is 4 gallons so we could do it in one batch. The prep feels like %20 more work than making soup for your household since you have help. Blended soups are a more work since you have to do so many batches but the time to do that wasn't that great.
- How heavy is the thermos when it is full?
- about 45lb
- How do I drop off soup?
- Drive to the s southeast corner of the camp, open your window and yell "drop off" or pull over, get out and let anyone know that you are delivering hot food and need it to be unloaded from your car.
- When do we pick up the thermos?
- We delivered soup at around 5pm on a Sunday. We stopped around 8pm and dinner was still being served and there was still soup left. We guess that by 9 it was empty. You could pick it up the next day but we suggest picking it up early since it needs to be cleaned.
- Still have questions about how to do a soup project?; email
- Tim at mckenna.tim@gmail.com or Peri at perimckenna@yahhoo.com or call/text Tim 857-498-2574, Peri 617-817-8501
PROJECTS
- user:soupTeam/soup pumpkin chickpea 11/21/11 2pm Peri, Susan,
- user:soupTeam/Women's march Man Soup 12/4/11 5pm Bob Follansbee and Tim McKenna