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"&amp;quot;For a city that&amp;#039;s so full of great food,&amp;quot; said Gayle Keck, standing in front of the demo kitchen at Macy&amp;#039;s San Francisco, &amp;quot;150,000 people are in danger of going hungry&amp;quot;. One in four children in America&amp;#039;s culinary capital is in danger of hunger, she added.  Keck, the media relations manager for San Francisco Food Bank, was there last Wednesday to thank the crowd who had turned out to raise money for the organization and to see celebrity chef Ming Tsai, who had come into town from Boston for the event. Ming is the host of public television&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Simply Ming&amp;quot;, author of three cookbooks, and the owner of Blue Ginger restaurant in Wellesley, Mass. Sipping wine and sampling Ming&amp;#039;s Asian Sloppy Joes, they had paid $25 a head to watch the Dayton, Ohio native offer tips and stories about cooking (and his mother, who apparently has a penchant for swiping ashtrays from France&amp;#039;s three-star restaurants).  While Ming demonstrated the proper techniques for making pot-stickers, the crowd laughed at his jokes and asked questions about the ingredients, such as sambal oelek, he was using in the dipping sauce for the fried-then-steamed dumplings. Ming was there for more than cooking tips, however. He was at Macy&amp;#039;s to encourage people to join the fight against hunger.  &amp;quot;Anything you can do is huge help,&amp;quot; he told the crowd. Scenes like this have been playing out across the country as Feeding America has declared September &amp;quot;Hunger Action Month&amp;quot;. The organization is working with numerous businesses and organizations to raise awareness \u2013 and money \u2013 about hunger in the United States. Feeding America supports a network of 200 food banks throughout the country, offering food assistance to 25 million Americans including 9 million children and 3 million seniors. With each dollar Feeding America raises, they&amp;#039;re able to provide three meals to people in need.  In San Francisco, 100 percent of the proceeds raised at Macy&amp;#039;s that evening went straight to the San Francisco Food Bank. Those donations would go far. Each $25 donation would purchase the equivalent of $425 worth of food for food bank clients, Keck told the crowd. Nationally, Macy&amp;#039;s has set the goal at providing 10 million meals through its fundraising efforts. Other organizations such as the Cheesecake Factory, Fortune magazine, Microsoft, Sony, and United Airlines, are all involved in Feeding America&amp;#039;s fundraising efforts.  Following the demonstration, I had the chance to talk with Ming.  &amp;quot;People don&amp;#039;t realize how many are hungry,&amp;quot; he said after exchanging greetings with fans. &amp;quot;Twenty-five to 30 million people are hungry. That&amp;#039;s crazy.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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