Celebrity chefs serve gourmet meals to Rio’s homeless

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Celebrity chefs serve gourmet meals to Rio’s homeless

 

 

RIO DE JANEIRO: -- Recycling Rio’s leftovers, celebrity chefs are making meals fit for a king for the less fortunate.

 

Every night 70 homeless people are served a gourmet dinner in designer surroundings.

 

It’s the brainchild of venerated chef Massimo Bottura who says it’s not just about good food, but rebuilding dignity.

 

“It’s not about feeding one hundred people, come on, we can build tonnes of soup kitchens. It’s something different. When they (customers) leave from here, like two days ago, two people said, ‘It is the first time in life that we were treated like prince(s)’.”

 

Via his Food for Soul organisation, he hopes to continue the project once the Games are over, and eventually that the initiative will change the way people think about food waste and hunger.

 

With more than 5,000 people sleeping rough in Rio, the aim is to create an Olympic legacy that stretches far beyond a bus line.

 

 

-- © Copyright Euronews 2016-08-17

 

 

[Ulysses G.]

Seems like a good thing. Excellent food always cheers me up.

[Alive]

They should let them drive around in Merecedes and BMWs for an hour too. Maybe a short free airplane trip in first class. To me the act does more for the the chef than the people. I find it comical.

[Emster23]

I hope the portions are larger than those served in those top end eateries.

[KKr]

In the case of helping needy people, I better liked the story about the Indian who fed a couple of street kids in a restaurant and got an invoice that said something like "No charge, there is no price for compassion." 

Euronews reporters, as there is no news in Rio and Brasil at the moment,  probably got a couple of free meals in the restaurant for this footage.

[KKr]

1 hour ago, Emster23 said:

I hope the portions are larger than those served in those top end eateries.

If the order fits on a hundred dollar bill it is big enough.

Edited August 17, 2016 by KKr

[SOTIRIOS]

....am sure that will do their digestive systems good......not.....

 

...and as for the rest of their lives.....???

 

...this is going to 'rebuild dignity'.....???

 

...ludicrous......

 

[klauskunkel]

yes, but is it gluten-free?