{"id":312486,"date":"2026-05-12T20:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/312486\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:27:08","slug":"a-roving-lifeline-for-the-body-and-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/312486\/","title":{"rendered":"A roving lifeline for the body and soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NEW YORK &#8212; Famed French chef Daniel Boulud recently delivered a delicious meal, one that was specially prepared in one of his own kitchens, to a homebound older adult on Manhattan&#8217;s Upper East Side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Every day, 81-year-old Lillian receives a nutritional meal from Citymeals on Wheels, delivered to her apartment on the Upper East Side, where she&#8217;s lived for more than 50 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Since its founding back in 1981, Citymeals has delivered 72 million nutritious meals to homebound older New Yorkers with the help of thousands of volunteers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">For the most vulnerable New Yorkers, hunger remains an urgent crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Citymeals is delivering 2.5 million meals this year. Citymeals relies on the goodness of everyday New Yorkers. They need people to volunteer, to help prep and deliver meals, but <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.citymeals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">also donate<\/a>. Every $10 delivers a meal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">&#8220;We wanna make sure that New Yorker&#8217;s know 100% of what they&#8217;re giving will go right to our programs to make sure older New York&#8217;s are getting fed, that there&#8217;s a knock on their door, letting them know that we care about them,&#8221; said Beth Shapiro, CEO of Citymeals on Wheels. <br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; Famed French chef Daniel Boulud recently delivered a delicious meal, one that was specially prepared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[130881,130882,112,114,113,79990,130883],"class_list":["post-312486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-city-meals-on-wheels","tag-daniel-boulud","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-meals-on-wheels","tag-nyc-meal-delivery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}