Aug. 2023 | Vol. 23 Iss. 08
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Lasagna, with love, from Deea Hobbs may just be the nourishment several community members need. (Julie Slama/City Journals)
very week for the past two years, Deea Hobbs has taken hours to shop and cook lasagna from scratch. She has perfected her original recipe and often, generously bakes homemade bread and chocolate chip cookies to the meal. Then, she drops off the dinner to a stranger. It’s called Lasagna Love. While Hobbs didn’t come up with the concept to provide this meal service to people, she may have mastered it. The founder is Rhiannon Menn, who, concerned about food insecurity in her Hawaiian community in 2020, started cooking and delivering homemade dishes to those in need. To her surprise, that snowballed; when others heard of her generosity, they asked if they could cook and deliver hot meals. Those acts of kindness became a nonprofit, which has turned into a global phenomenon of people reaching out, serving each other. Now, more than 350,000 lasagnas have been served to more than 1.5 million people by more than 45,000 volunteers worldwide, according to the Lasagna Love website. Hobbs, a Sandy realtor, learned about Lasagna Love from one of her clients, who also provides lasagna on a regular basis. “It was COVID, and we stopped going to church, so I really missed connecting with people through service,” she said. “When one of my clients posted about it on Instagram, Continued page 9
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