Garden & Gun
On Tuesday, there was still an hour and a half until lunchtime, and cars were already lining up in a parking lot off Airline Drive in Metairie, Louisiana, as locals waited patiently for a hot meal made and served by the Virginia-based nonprofit Mercy Chefs. “It’s been insane,” says Gary LeBlanc, the organization’s founder and CEO. “We’ve been serving about 20,000 meals a day for the last week, and every day we add another five hundred somehow.”