oo hi, i'm holly lee. i love cooking and you are watching quick bites. san francisco is a foodie town. we san franciscoans love our food and desserts are no exceptions. there are places that specialize in any and every dessert your heart desires, from hand made ice cream to organic cakes, artisan chocolate and cupcakes galore, the options are endless. anyone out there with a sweet tooth? then i have a great stop for you. i've been searching high and low for some great cookies and the buzz around town that anthony's are those cookies. with rave reviews like this i have to experience these cookies for myself and see what the fuss was all about. so let's see. while attending san francisco state university as an accountinging major, anthony's friend jokingly suggested he make cookies to make ends make. with no formal culinary training he opened his own bakery and is now the no. 1 producer of gourmet cookies in the biarea and thank you for joining us on quick bites. how do you feel? >> i feel great. >> so i want to get to the bottom of some very burning quest

oo hi, i'm holly lee. i love cooking and you are watching quick bites. town. we san franciscoans love our food and desserts are no exceptions. there are places that specialize in any and every dessert your heart desires, from hand made ice cream to organic cakes, artisan chocolate and cupcakes galore, the options are endless. anyone out there with a sweet tooth? then i have a great stop for you. i've been searching high and low for some great cookies and the buzz around town that anthony's are those cookies. with rave reviews like this i have to experience these cookies for myself and see what the fuss was all about. so let's see.

lee, west side courts, holly courts, those places were not meant to last this long. the plumbing issues, and the rodent issues. all the things we're trying deal with now, are things that no rehabilitation can address. i am trying to understand -- >> well, again. >> and this is -- i am very, as you can see, i am blown away by the fact that i have been aggressively working to get west side courts in particular on the priority list, because holly courts and west side courts are two of the oldest housing developments. and in desperate need of repair where we continue to have significant challenges. i am trying to understand how realistically we can make a commitment for rehabilitation. i don't see it. >> we are in the process of getting the actual information about the scope of rehab for each development. we have done physical assistance assessme assessments. the developers that are responsible for the site will have to take those physical assistance assessments and work programs on them. you may be right. >> we are not as a city looking at the possibility of demolition.

lawrence lee reports from southeast england. >>> holly aspires to be a business woman and says she neverd handouts from anyone. certainly not the government. but she had to close her shop down for a month when her 4 year old daughter had to go to the hospital. when she got home she had no food and no money. so she had to go to the food bank. >> we're nice people. we -- we don't -- we're not what people expect. we're not drug addicts or alcohol alcoholics. we haven't gotten ourselves in this situation because we have lived this amazing life. it's just the way it is. >> reporter: holly lives on england's south coast. it is posh here with a capital p. it's the fifth most expensive town in england, but here as elsewhere, the food bank has never been busier. some of the fastest growth rates are far casted in the industrialized world here. but now there is an entire layer of society, 1 million deep who simply can't afford the basics. the trus l trust which now has some 30,000 volunteers has come up with some startling figures on food bank news. in 2010 just of 61,000 were asking for rash shuns

as lawrence lee reports in southeast england, church leaders are warning that the poor are being left behind. >> reporter: holly aspire to be a business woman and has never wanted handouts from anyone, certainly not the government. but she had to close her shop down for a month when her four-year-old daughter became ill and had to go to hospital. when she came home she had no food in the fridge and not a penny to buy anything. now she goes to the food bank afteid food bank after raiding her daughter's money jar for a few coins to buy milk. >> we're nice people, we're not what people expect. we're not drug addicts. we're not alcoholics. we're not in this situation because we've lived this amazing life, and we've got it because it is just the way it is. >> reporter: holly lives on england's south coast. it's posh here with the capital p. the fifth most expensive town in england but here as elsewhere, the food bank has never been busier. of course the government can point to a whole slew of statistics which say life in great britain is generally getting better. wages up, inflation down, but it's also clear that th