HeraldNet: Feeding the multitudes

SNOHOMISH - As many as 100 hungry people are expected for dinner, and you've got to come up with the menu.


Elizabeth Armstrong / The Herald

Barbara Long (left) of Snohomish watches as Beth Macho helps Long's granddaughter, Jaiden Cochran, 11 months, unwrap a cupcake for dessert. Macho was helping serve dinner to guests gathered at St. John's Episcopal Church in Snohomish.
You open the pantry door to see what you have to work with.

There are multiple No. 10 cans of vegetables, frozen hamburger, something called "texturized vegetable product" and five pounds of mushrooms.