If anyone was built to feed people during a pandemic, it’s Phil Jones.
Not many chefs would know what to do with 100,000 pounds of cooked and diced chicken thighs, let alone how to get it to people in need safely and quickly, but Jones isn’t your average chef.
That’s why the three semi-truckloads of chicken ended up in his possession last spring as COVID-19 snarled supply chains and imperiled distribution efforts to the food insecure.
“Just another day in the D,” Jones wrote me in a text message then, nonchalantly describing the enormous donation from a Canadian food processor.