So if you happen to be in a privileged position and feeling willing and able, please consider buying yourself some sauce, sending your friends a gift of sauce, or better yet, storing up credit for future sauce (this is our preferred option, see below for reason). You’ll be supporting us, a female-minority-run small business as well as getting resources to those who need it the most right now, local restaurants and frontline health workers. These initiatives keep businesses running while providing essential relief through nourishing meals to those we’re relying on the most right now.įly By Jing is committed to donating 20% of all product sales to organizations like World Central Kitchen, America's Food Fund, Frontline Foods, Off Their Plate, Bento Essential and others over the next week. Additionally, we will be donating 40% of the value of any Gift Card purchases. We’ve seen organizations like Chef José Andrés' World Central Kitchen mobilize to serve 100,000 meals every day across the country, and joining forces with restaurants to feed frontline healthcare workers. The same is also happening on a grassroots level across the country, with small Asian-owned restaurants like 886, Raku and Ho Foods in NYC providing free, healthy lunches to local hospitals with the help of donors. We’re filled with gratitude that you’ve shown up and supported small businesses like ours during this time, while painfully conscious to the plight of our fellow entrepreneurs in the hospitality industry and beyond. ![]() Samin Nosrat has called us her most-frequently used condiment, Esquire Magazine called us the best mail-order delivery food, and we were interviewed this week by the NYTimes. Hundreds of people have written to say how much our products have helped brighten their quarantine days. Over 90% of Americans did not cook at home before, and as we know, this has changed drastically. My ask is for all of us to consider what new world we want to create, and the role each of us has in shaping it.Īt Fly By Jing, we've had the extreme privilege to see a rise in sales over the last weeks. But every act of compassion, kindness, courage, or generosity heals us from the story of separation, because it assures both actor and witness that we are in this together”. “To be alone is a primal fear, and modern society has rendered us more and more alone. It’s clear that the only way forward is to take care of one another, follow love over fear, generosity over self-preservation. In his essay “The Coronation”, the thinker and writer Charles Eisenstein asks, What else might we achieve, in coherency? What world shall we create, when we awaken to our power? Already we are seeing resources being deployed into people and movements that contribute to a more just society. ![]() It’s also showed us that when humanity is united in common cause, phenomenally rapid change is possible. ![]() For some of us, this time has revealed just how stretched to nearing breaking point the systems around us had been. Two weeks into lockdown, we’ve now had some time to adjust and reflect on our 'new normal'.
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