Loving Spoonful’s 10-year executive director, Lisa Martella, had more than 50 potential dinner invitations recently, and kept several. That was when the Dining Out For Life program had city restaurants raise a possible $100,000 for the 1989-founded organization that serves 100,000 free meals yearly to those with HIV/AIDS. With changing menus, too, as clients live longer, develop coexisting ailments and have their dietary needs evolve. Not so Martella and spouse Paul’s cats, Leroy, Jaxie and Gracie, “who always want chicken, preferably grilled,” she said.
