The LA chefs and shops delivering food to immigrants scared to go out: ‘I know how to feed people’
by Victoria Namkung in Los Angeles from on (#6ZHVT)
After Ice's infiltration of LA, the community is rallying to provide essentials for survival for those forced to stay home
When Danielle Duran Zecca saw military-style immigration raids and people being snatched off the streets and put into unmarked vehicles in her native Los Angeles earlier this summer, she was in disbelief.
It just felt unreal like this wasn't a world that we could be living in right now," said Duran Zecca, a James Beard Award nominated chef and co-owner of Amiga Amore in Highland Park, a historically Latino neighborhood in north-east LA. I didn't know what to do, but I knew how to feed people and love on people because that is exactly how I was brought up in my family."
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