I love the bowls I’ve acquired the last two years at the Third Avenue Charitable Organization (TACO)’s annual Empty Bowls fundraiser. I missed the first of these now-annual events (in 2007), but I wouldn’t dream of not making it to the one taking place tomorrow, once again at La Jolla United Methodist Church, 6063 La Jolla Boulevard. The format is the same: local potters will be donating hundreds of examples of their work, all of it hand-made and signed. Then local restaurants — usually including many really good ones — provide soup and bread. The price remains $20, and for that you get the humble but delicious chow, along with the bowl to take home. TACO uses the money to feed the homeless and working poor — something the organization has been doing for more than 30 years.
Bowl apetit!
