Know about free food we missed?
Send a link. It is checked at the next update (every three hours, 6 AM to 6 PM) and shows up on the map if it has a date and is open to fellows.
Add a newsletter: two ways
- Forward any issue, or any email about an event, to this address. It is read at the next update (every three hours, 6 AM to 6 PM). Everything you forward appears under Events, food or not.
- Subscribe this address on the newsletter's own sign-up page, so every future issue arrives by itself. Confirmation emails from Harvard senders are confirmed automatically; others get confirmed by the site's maintainer.
Events with food that are open to fellows go on the map. Images inside emails can't be read, so a forwarded flyer alone won't show up.
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FFFFE at Harvard
The Faculty for Free Food and Fantastic Events. Motto: Prandium gratis, a free lunch. The three stars are the fantastic events, the fork and the quill the free food and the fellows who write.
Every few hours this site reads public Harvard event calendars and the newsletters fellows forward, and keeps two lists: events whose own description says food is served, and events fellows picked.
Food and Events
Free food lists free food from all calendars and newsletters. Events lists talks, screenings and other events that fellows forwarded to hungrynieman@gmail.com, up to four weeks ahead, marked with the first name of the fellow who sent it. An email counts as forwarded when a person (not a mailing list) sent it as a forward.
An event is listed only when it has a start time, a place on the map (or is clearly online), its own event page with date, place and description, and a short description to decide on. Each link is followed and checked; links to a video channel or a person's page don't count.
Food
Confirmed: one sentence names a food and says it is served (“A light lunch will be provided.”). That sentence is quoted on the card. Likely: only the title suggests food (“Opening Reception”). Online, brown-bag and pay-for-food events are left out. A plausibility check also skips food that isn't for people (“cat and dog treats”), figures of speech (“food for thought”) and excluded food (“non-pizza lunch”).
Who may attend
Each event is checked for audience limits. The check reads the calendar's own audience field first (Harvard Law School lists “All HLS students only” or “All Harvard”; the College tags class years), then sentences such as “open to HUID holders only”, then clues such as “1L Coffee Chat” or a House as host.
- Open to public anyone
- Harvard ID Harvard ID holders: fellows qualify
- Audience not stated
- Probably only … inferred from the title or host
- Only … limited to a school, class year, House or group
Going / Probably no access/food
Tap Going so other fellows see who is heading there, or Probably no access/food when you found out the event isn't open to us or there is no food after all. Votes are shared by everyone using this site and kept for 30 days. On the claude.ai copy, names come from Claude accounts, and voting needs Editor access; everyone else sees the votes.
Suggestions
Missing something? Use Suggest to send a link to an event, or a newsletter or calendar to scan. Links on Harvard sites are checked at the next update; others first get a quick look from the site's maintainer. Newsletters: forward them to hungrynieman@gmail.com, or subscribe that address to a mailing list.
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Food runs out and plans change: check the source link before you walk over. Walking times are straight-line estimates from Lippmann House. An unofficial project by a fellow; not affiliated with the Nieman Foundation or Harvard. FFFFE is not a Harvard faculty, and its crest is its own.