Sacred Heart Church's Palm Sunday Italian Dinner
Volunteers cooked 505 gallons of sauce and thousands of meatballs for Sacred Heart Church's Palm Sunday Italian Dinner. The Catholic church has hosted the meal for more than 100 years.
Volunteers cooked 505 gallons of sauce and thousands of meatballs for Sacred Heart Church's Palm Sunday Italian Dinner.Photo by: Kristen Swilley | WCPO
Volunteers cooked 505 gallons of sauce and thousands of meatballs for Sacred Heart Church's Palm Sunday Italian Dinner.Photo by: Kristen Swilley | WCPO
CINCINNATI. April 8, 2017. Volunteers prepped for the Sacred Heart Church Palm Sunday Italian Dinner. The sauce gets made with huge jars of tomato puree.Photo by: Paul Weeden | WCPO
CINCINNATI. April 8, 2017. Volunteers prepped for the Sacred Heart Church Palm Sunday Italian Dinner. People spend hours in the kitchen, stirring the sauce.Photo by: Paul Weeden | WCPO
CINCINNATI. April 8, 2017. Volunteers prepped for the Sacred Heart Church Palm Sunday Italian Dinner. These meatballs are made by hand. If they're not big enough, they get more meat.Photo by: Paul Weeden | WCPO
CINCINNATI. April 8, 2017. Volunteers prepped for the Sacred Heart Church Palm Sunday Italian Dinner. Volunteers hand-roll thousands of meatballs.Photo by: Paul Weeden | WCPO
CINCINNATI. April 8, 2017. Volunteers prepped for the Sacred Heart Church Palm Sunday Italian Dinner. Volunteers start cooking the meatballs Saturday night all the way into Sunday morning.Photo by: Paul Weeden | WCPO
CINCINNATI. April 8, 2017. Volunteers prepped for the Sacred Heart Church Palm Sunday Italian Dinner. Thousands of meatballs are handmade for the century-old tradition.Photo by: Paul Weeden | WCPO
CINCINNATI. April 8, 2017. Volunteers prepped for the Sacred Heart Church Palm Sunday Italian Dinner. Ingredients come by the bucketload for a meal feeding 1,900 to 2,000 people.Photo by: Paul Weeden | WCPO
CINCINNATI. April 8, 2017. Volunteers prepped for the Sacred Heart Church Palm Sunday Italian Dinner. Ingredients come by the bucketload for a meal feeding 1,900 to 2,000 people.Photo by: Paul Weeden | WCPO
CINCINNATI. April 8, 2017. Volunteers prepped for the Sacred Heart Church Palm Sunday Italian Dinner. The kitchen is crowded while volunteers cook the sauce.Photo by: Paul Weeden | WCPO
CINCINNATI. April 8, 2017. Volunteers prepped for the Sacred Heart Church Palm Sunday Italian Dinner. Ground beef is cooked before tomato puree is added.Photo by: Paul Weeden | WCPO
CINCINNATI. April 8, 2017. Volunteers prepped for the Sacred Heart Church Palm Sunday Italian Dinner. Many of the volunteers have been helping for decades.Photo by: Paul Weeden | WCPO
CINCINNATI. April 8, 2017. Volunteers prepped for the Sacred Heart Church Palm Sunday Italian Dinner. Caseloads of tomato puree go into the 505 gallons of sauce.Photo by: Paul Weeden | WCPO
CINCINNATI. April 8, 2017. Volunteers prepped for the Sacred Heart Church Palm Sunday Italian Dinner. The kitchen stays crowded while volunteers cook the sauce.Photo by: Paul Weeden | WCPO
CINCINNATI. April 8, 2017. Volunteers prepped for the Sacred Heart Church Palm Sunday Italian Dinner. Some people wait in line for hours for Sunday's meal.Photo by: Paul Weeden | WCPO
CINCINNATI. April 8, 2017. Volunteers prepped for the Sacred Heart Church Palm Sunday Italian Dinner. Tomato puree is added to the ground beef for the sauce.Photo by: Paul Weeden | WCPO
CINCINNATI. April 8, 2017. Volunteers prepped for the Sacred Heart Church Palm Sunday Italian Dinner. The meal is a fundraiser for the church, located in the city's Camp Washington neighborhood.Photo by: Paul Weeden | WCPO