About $28,000 to support area food pantries is the net result of the Taste@Home dinner and auction held June 8 by the Hunger Foundation of Southern Ocean. This year’s version of the annual “Taste” dinner was a hybrid live-virtual event that served a limited number of patrons at Ott’s Good Earth Garden in West Creek, while a livestream to takeout patrons showed the demonstrations and entertainment as they took place from the restaurant.

Taste@Home was the hybrid solution that worked in the year that the pandemic is waning.