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Oct 30, 2011

"The lines of giving are complicated, you never know how it will come back. But you have to give because you can't let the cord break with you." --Maria Diarra Keita

Karma Kitchen: The Pay-It-Forward Restaurant

Imagine a restaurant where your bill reads $0.00, because your meal is a gift and can't be paid for -- only paid forward for the person after you. How long might the chain of generosity last? At Karma Kitchen, in three cities around the United States, it has gone on for close to 25 thousand people -- and is still going. Filmmaker Katie Teague shares a thoughtful and hopeful short video portrait of how this kind of "gift economy" can work.