Filling Hearts and Bellies with Empty Bowls

“I still get goosebumps with gratitude that I’m able to do this,” says Danyel Dean, who founded the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County’s signature Empty Bowls fundraiser way back in 1998. When the event takes place on Sunday, December 3, at the organization’s new Sharehouse in Goleta, it will be the 26th year Dean has chaired the event and the first time since the pandemic that soup will be served onsite.