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Matio Batali is up to the challenge

Published 05/16/2012 12:00 AM
Updated 05/15/2012 04:37 PM

To much of the world, it was Monday. To Mario Batali, it was Day Four. The chef, his wife and their two teenage sons are eating for a week on the equivalent of a food stamp budget in protest of potential cuts pending in Congress to the benefit program used by more than 46 million Americans. That's $31 per person for the week, or about $1.48 per meal each. Batali is on the board of the food relief agency Food Bank for New York City, which issued the challenge to celeb pals like Batali and anybody else who wants to know what it's like.

- Associated Press

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