The FOOD NOT BOMBSHandbook

A book about how you can help start a Food Not Bombs group in your community.

FOOD NOT BOMBS
How to Feed the Hungry and Build Community

By C.T. Butler and Keith McHenry

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Introduction by Howard Zinn

Why Food Not Bombs?

• Food Not Bombs
• How Food Not Bombs Got Its Name

Logistics

Starting a Food Not Bombs

• Seven Steps to Organizing a Local Food Not Bombs
• The "Office"
• Decision Making and Leadership
• Outreach
• Food Collection
• Food Distribution
• The Kitchen
• Food Preparation
• Outdoor Tables and Field Kitchens

Beyond Food Collection and Distribution

• Street Theatre
• Fundraising
• Legal Tips

Recipes

Food Logistics

• Equipment
• Tips On Cooking for Large Numbers of People
• Shopping
• Food handling and Storage

Food Not Bombs Recipes

• How To Use These Recipes
• Simple Recipes
• Breakfast Recipes
• Lunch and Dinner Recipes
• Salads
• Salad Dressings
• Soups
• Deserts

Introduction

• The New Society
• Nonviolence in Theory
• Nonviolence in Practice

Stories

• The Cambridge Collective 1981-1982
• The Affinity Group Era 1984-1988
• National Organizing 1988-1991

Food Not Bombs Since 1992

Appendix

• FNB National Contact List
• Bibliography
• Literature Tables
• Equipment Lists
• Reproducible fliers
• Formal Consensus Flow Chart
• Sample Agenda

They came first for the communists, and I didn't speak out . . .
because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak out . . .
because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak out . . .
because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak out. . .
because I was a Protestant.
And then they came for me, and by that time
no one was left to speak up . . .

Pastor Martin Niemoller

Author's Biographies
C.T. Bulter
Keith McHenry