PHILADELPHIA — While stuck in his second-floor Center City apartment during the height of the pandemic in 2020, graduate student Ben Berman worked on his pizza recipe.
With large gatherings out of the question, the pizzas had to go somewhere. To maintain social-distancing, he rigged up a box with a rope and lowered the pies to the Sansom Street sidewalk, where friends snapped them up on Sunday nights. Berman sent any money he received for his efforts to charities.
“I can either give away $100 to a nonprofit that I care about, or I can spend $100 on pizza ingredients and … give away $500,” through his earnings, he said.
