Celebrating Thanksgiving with a Caribbean twist in the Bronx.<\/p>\n
Oxtail was the highlight of the massive holiday meal giveaway in Co-op City on Monday.\u00a0This Thanksgiving giveaway event was hosted by City Councilman Kevin Riley outside the Einstein Loop Community Center.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Various other community groups took part.\u00a0The event recognizes the large Caribbean heritage in the northeast Bronx.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hundreds of people who were in need came out for the free meal, which included all the side fixings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Riley says many in his district have been hurting after the lapse in food benefits during the recent government shutdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do know that food insecurity is out there. We do know… we\u2019re talking about affordability within our communities right now. And the thing that is least affordable is groceries within every supermarket. So what we’re about this time is trying to do things a little bit different. Try to lessen a little bit expensive within households. And we want to make sure we are treating our constituents very well. I represent a predominantly immigrant community. Both my parents come from Jamaica. So today we know we wanted to give out some oxtail,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe line was a bit long. But it\u2019s worth the wait. And I do love oxtails. And it\u2019s a little different than I expected. I thought I was coming for turnkey,\u201d Lynne said. \u201cBut I am sure before the thing is over I will have a turkey as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Riley also gave out turkeys at another event he co-hosted later in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
Spectrum is a co-sponsor of the Thanksgiving events and the parent company of NY1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrating Thanksgiving with a Caribbean twist in the Bronx. Oxtail was the highlight of the massive holiday meal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[25,128,9,24,12,63,380,129,131,130,27,200],"class_list":["post-51232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}