Poor New Yorkers getting fancy food leftovers

By Verena Dobnik
Published July 6, 2014 5:08pm ET
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Poor New Yorkers getting fancy food leftovers
Food pantry customers are served samples of a donated pate of duck foie gras while waiting their turns to shop, Wednesday, July 2, 2014, in New York. About 170,000 pounds of delicacies left from the Summer Fancy Food Show in New York were donated and distributed to food pantries across the five boroughs..(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) | Julie Jacobson

NEW YORK (AP) — Some of the world’s fanciest foods are going to New Yorkers who can’t afford even basic meat-and-potato meals.

This week, they got about 90,000 pounds of delicacies left over from the Summer Fancy Food Show in New York, including $80-a-pound foie gras (fwah-GRAH’) and duck.

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