BALTIMORE, MD — A holiday that doesn’t appear on traditional calendars — National Sunday Supper Month, observed through Jan. 31 — takes on added importance as so many Baltimore residents struggle to get enough to eat as they cope with coronavirus pandemic-related job losses, business failures and other economic hardships.

The idea behind National Sunday Supper Month is to rediscover the tradition of families spending time together at the dinner table to share stories from the previous week, according to Isabelle Laessig, the founder of the Sunday Supper Movement.

For more than 130,000 people in Baltimore, lavish Sunday evening meals — or any meals — aren’t in the budget. That’s according to a projection by Feeding America, the nation’s largest hunger relief organization, that as many as 50 million Americans faced food insecurity at 2020’s end.