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CITY HARVEST TO HOLD
EIGHTH ANNUAL
ON YOUR PLATE LUNCHEON
NEW YORK, NY – City Harvest will hold its eighth annual On
Your Plate luncheon on Wednesday, May 16, 2012, at the
Metropolitan Club in Manhattan (1 E 60th Street at Fifth
Avenue). An elegant luncheon will begin at 12:00 noon,
followed by a conversation with guest speaker Susan Fales-Hill,
acclaimed author, television writer, and producer.
Susan Fales-Hill has worked for a number of television
series, including “The Cosby Show” and “Suddenly Susan,” and
has written magazine articles that have appeared in Vogue,
Glamour, Town & Country, and Good Housekeeping. A graduate
of Harvard, Susan has published two books, the critically
acclaimed memoir Always Wear Joy and the novel One Flight
Up. Her third book, Imperfect Bliss, hits bookstores on July
3rd. She currently lives in New York with her husband and
their daughter.
The event will be co-chaired by Jennifer Carlston, Joy
Ingham, Jan Fletcher Slifka, Topsy Taylor, and Meghan
Carleton Young. Society columnist and longtime City Harvest
supporter David Patrick Columbia is honorary chair.
Tickets to this year’s On Your Plate luncheon range from
$375 to $1,000, and tables range from $5,000 to $15,000.
Last year’s event attracted over 200 guests and raised over
$240,000 -- enough to help feed over 148,000 hungry New
Yorkers for a week. For more information please call
917-351-8725, email
events@cityharvest.org , or visit
www.cityharvest.org
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About City Harvest
Now serving New York City for 30 years, City Harvest
www.CityHarvest.org
is the world's first food rescue organization, dedicated to
feeding the city’s hungry men, women, and children. This
year, City Harvest will collect more than 33 million pounds
of excess food from all segments of the food industry,
including restaurants, grocers, corporate cafeterias,
manufacturers, and farms. This food is then delivered free
of charge to some 600 community food programs throughout New
York City by a fleet of trucks and bikes. City Harvest helps
feed the more than one million New Yorkers that face hunger
each year.
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