I’ve attended plenty of fundrais­ers for food char­i­ties over the years and most are not to my taste.

Too many — often sev­eral hun­dred — well-heeled guests dressed to the nines trip­ping over each other to get at the food served at indi­vid­ual sta­tions in a glitzy indoor venue or some­times in the big out­doors is not my cup of tea. Their moti­va­tion is to see and be seen at an event that’s both a tax write-off and makes them feel good about vis­i­bly sup­port­ing some wor­thy cause.