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Chicago Restaurateur Joins Mission to Feed America's Hungry

Associated Press

   CHICAGO - Before coronavirus arrived, Manish Mallick's trips to this
   city's South Side had been limited to attending graduate classes at the
   University of Chicago.

   Now Mallick is a South Side regular -- and a popular one. He regularly
   arrives bearing food for the hungry from his Indian restaurant several
   miles to the north, in the city's downtown.

   "Thank you, sugar, for the meals. They're so delicious!" one woman
   recently shouted to Mallick outside a South Side YWCA. He recorded her
   response on his phone to share it with his staff.

   "God bless you!" she added, raising her arms for emphasis.

   Mallick has personally delivered thousands of meals cooked and packed
   by his staff-- among them, chickpea curry and tandoori chicken with
   roasted cottage cheese, sweet corn, peas and rice. Volunteers from
   neighborhood organizations then take them to children, retirees and the
   multitudes who've been laid off or sick during the pandemic.

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