Ruth Brinker

They supplied fresh, premium ingredients to high-end kitchens, while simultaneously funding and providing vital nutrition for the less fortunate and chronically ill, including HIV AIDS patients.

On top of that, Jeremiah Tower was an early, passionate champion of Project Open Hand, a San Francisco non-profit founded by Ruth Brinker, who, in 1985, would prepare and deliver nutritious meals to people dying of AIDS.

Now, Jeremiah Tower used his massive influence and resources of Starz to help provide ingredients, raise operational funds, and bring real culinary legitimacy to the critical mission of feeding homebound AIDS patients.

And this is during the 1980s, long before Rolando was hired in 1991.