Mary-Catherine Deibel and David Waters

Recorded March 3, 2021 Archived March 2, 2021 43:36 minutes
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Id: mby020461

Description

Friends Mary-Catherine Deibel (70) and David Waters (61) talk about their passion for hospitality and the way in which food connects everyone. They talk about Community Servings and how they have been able to serve those who are critically ill and in need even during a pandemic.

Subject Log / Time Code

DW and MCD talk about how long they have known each other. MCD talks about solving problems with DW for forty years.
DW talks about his passion for entertaining and hospitality and shares that MCD is the epitome of the "most gracious host" - almost out of another era.
DW talks about working with MCD in the restaurant business in the '80s and '90s. He shares that it was the height of the AIDS epidemic and talks about how the AIDS epidemic impacted the restaurant and hospitality community. He talks about being a young, gay man who was scared of dying of AIDS and remembers his friends and acquaintances dying and not knowing how to cope with it.
DW talks about people with AIDS dying from malnutrition. DW: "Food was really the only answer and if you love somebody who is sick and dying, feeding them was the best way to, perhaps, prolong their life for a few more weeks or months while we, you know, desperately hoped for a cure."
DW talks about Community Servings feeding people who are sick. He talks about feeding women with breast cancer, seniors with kidney failure, and talks about making the community bigger. He shares that Community Servings feeds 1500 people a day. He talks about showing respect and care to the clients by preparing and giving good food.
MCD talks about Community Serving's teaching kitchen program. MCD talks about the pandemic.
DW talks about the joy that comes with working together as a group and he talks about hospitality being unique in the nonprofit world.
DW talks about meeting people from different life experiences and cultures and shares that most of his coworkers are people who have served time. DW: "We can do good and feel like we leave the world a better place and care for people around us and use food and hospitality to do it."
MCD: "Community Servings is a place for second chances and it's also a place of cultural diversity."
DW talks about his legacy being MCD's legacy because they have worked together. MCD and DW talk about having a long road ahead of them and share that they will keep doing it together.

Participants

  • Mary-Catherine Deibel
  • David Waters

Partnership Type

Outreach