Abstract
Soup kitchens throughout the United States serve a daily meal to the hungry and homeless in a "no questions asked" atmosphere. In More Than Bread: Ethnography of a Soup Kitchen (University of Alabama Press, 1988), I presented five years of field research conducted in the Tabernacle Soup Kitchen (a pseudonym) in a former mill town in Connecticut. This article presents some program and policy implications based on my observations of daily life and culture in this dining room where one hundred or more people gather for coffee, doughnuts, and a hot noontime meal. My primary research method was participant observation, which was most compatible with the "no questions asked" atmosphere. I supplemented this with a detailed health interview with 74 guests. This article uses both sets of data.
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