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Empty Bowls & Burrito bowls

By Monte Belmonte,
Kaliis Smith
Published March 28, 2023 at 8:27 PM EDT
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Monte Belmonte and Lev BenEzra speak outside the Amherst Survival Center.
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Monte Belmonte and Lev BenEzra speak outside the Amherst Survival Center.

Hosts Monte Belmonte and Kaliis Smith talk with Phil Korman from CISA and with Bob Lowry from Bueno y Sano about the history of that now-iconic western Massachusetts burrito shop. They even get a DoorDash delivery and a briefing about how DoorDash is impacting the restaurants and the communities the restaurants serve.

And then, a conversation with Lev BenEzra, executive director of The Amherst Survival Center about the upcoming Empty Bowls Dinner and about how a cut in pandemic-era SNAP benefits is affecting the greater Amherst community.

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Monte Belmonte
Christopher “Monte'' Belmonte is host and executive producer of NEPM's The Fabulous 413. He was born and raised in Massachusetts and has been a radio host in western Massachusetts for the last 20 years — the last 17 of them as host of Mornings with Monte on The River 93.9/WRSI.
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Kaliis Smith
Kaliis Smith is a radio host and producer for NEPM's The Fabulous 413. She was most recently host and producer at The River 93.9/WRSI where she appeared on Mornings with Monte for the Nerdwatch segment and hosted weekday evenings.
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