Curry Without Worry

{{Short description|Nepalese soup kitchen in San Francisco}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{Infobox organization

| name = Curry Without Worry

| formation = {{start date and age|2006}}

| logo = Curry Without Worry.png

| logo_alt = Logo of the charity

| logo_caption = Logo of the charity

| founder = Shrawan Nepali

| type = Soup kitchen

| headquarters = San Francisco

| leader_title = President

| leader_name = Jesse Seaver

| website = https://www.currywithoutworry.org/

}}

Curry Without Worry is a San Francisco, California-based soup kitchen known for its menu of Nepalese cuisine. The charity serves free dinner to mostly impoverished persons on Tuesday afternoons from kiosks that simultaneously operate in San Francisco and Kathmandu.{{cite web |url=http://kalw.org/post/nepali-soup-kitchen-soul |title=A Nepali soup kitchen for the soul |last1=Wong |first1=Rachel |date=27 January 2014 |website=kalw.org |publisher=KALW-FM |accessdate=31 January 2014}} Curry Without Worry also encourages "successful people" to eat at its kiosks as a way to emphasize similarities between persons of different economic strata.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/us/curry-without-worry-soup-kitchen-feeds-the-haves-and-the-have-nots.html?_r=1& |title=Bringing the Haves and Have-Nots Together for Curry and Compassion |last1=Pogash |first1=Carol |work=The New York Times |date= 29 October 2011|accessdate=31 January 2014}} Meals are vegan and typically include rice, kwati, curried vegetables, spicy achar, timur chutney and flatbread.{{cite web |url=http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/12/11/curry-without-worry-soul-pleasing-food-for-the-hungry-and-the-curious/ |title=Soul-Pleasing Food for the Hungry and the Curious |last1=Finn |first1=Maria |date=11 December 2012 |website=kqed.org |publisher=KQED-FM |accessdate=31 January 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://www.sfbg.com/2012/08/28/jesus-free-food |title=Jesus-free food |last1=Chanoff |first1=Yael |date=28 August 2012 |website=sfbg.com |publisher=San Francisco Bay Guardian |accessdate=31 January 2014}}

History

Curry Without Worry was founded in 2006 by Shrawan Nepali, an immigrant to the United States from Nepal. Nepali used the profits from a San Francisco-area restaurant in which he was a part owner to start the organization. The charity's president is Jesse Seaver.{{cite web |title=Jesse Seaver |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-seaver/ |website=Huffington Post |access-date=1 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120416081052/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-seaver/ |archive-date=16 April 2012 |url-status=dead}}

References

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Further reading

  • Katayama, Lisa. "[http://boingboing.net/2010/06/21/nepali-curries.html My love affair with timur (or how to cook a Nepali village feast)]", Boing Boing, June 21, 2009. Retrieved January 31, 2014.