Soup kitchen
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A soup kitchen, food kitchen, or meal center is a place where food is offered to hungry and homeless people, usually for no cost, or sometimes at below-market price. Frequently located in lower-income
A soup kitchen, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1931
Count Rumford, painted by Thomas Gainsborough, 1783
Unemployed men outside a soup kitchen opened by Al Capone in Depression-era Chicago, Illinois, the US, 1931
Chilean women preparing soup kitchen meals in 1932
Al Capone
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Alphonse Gabriel Capone, sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicag
Soup kitchen
…particularly in the early days when emergency privately funded soup kitchens were set up. One soup kitchen in Chicago was sponsored by American mobster Al Capone in an apparent effort to clean up his image. This began to change with President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal in 1933. Federal programs, particularly…
Capone in 1930
Capone with his mother
Capone home, a two-story building, Chicago, Illinois, 1929