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Help Gale Cook with World Central Kitchen Poland
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Please help support me while I donate my time and skills to the people of Ukraine. I am traveling to the Polish border town of Przemysl to cook with Jose Andres' people at World Central Kitchen (wck.org), where we will be working to prep and deliver fresh food & hot meals to those arriving from recently evacuated Ukrainian cities.
My travels will be taking place over Mother's Day weekend in the United States, which coincides with Ukrainian Mother's Day. I can’t think of a better way to spend my Mother’s Day than by helping other mother’s and their children who have been displaced by the unfortunate chaos they are enduring. I can only hope my contributions will help give them some small form of relief during this truly unfortunate time.
Funds received will be utilized to cover travel expenses with any excess being donated directly to World Central Kitchen.
Getting professionally trained chefs over to the relief zone is critically important as one professionally trained chef can prep much more food than civilian volunteers.
Thank you for your support.
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Background information on me: Chef Gale Gand is a nationally acclaimed pastry chef, restaurateur, cookbook author, television personality, teacher, entrepreneur, and mother. Chef Gand has been recognized as Outstanding Pastry Chef of the Year by The James Beard Foundation and by Bon Appetite magazine and has been inducted into the Chicago Chefs Hall of Fame. For 8 years, Gale hosted the Food Network series “Sweet Dreams,” the first nationally televised all-dessert show anywhere, now streaming on Discovery Plus. Gale is the founding pastry chef and partner of the beloved Chicago restaurant Tru, opened with long-time culinary partner Chef Rick Tramonto and restaurateur Rich Melman in 1999. Gale was the Chef in Residence in 2011 and 2012 at Elawa Farm in Lake Forest, Illinois. Gale teaches cooking classes all over the world with many venues throughout Chicagoland. She resides in Riverwoods, Illinois with her husband, Jimmy Seidita, and has 3 children, son Gio (26), and twin daughters Ella and Ruby (17).
Learn more: www.galegand.com
My travels will be taking place over Mother's Day weekend in the United States, which coincides with Ukrainian Mother's Day. I can’t think of a better way to spend my Mother’s Day than by helping other mother’s and their children who have been displaced by the unfortunate chaos they are enduring. I can only hope my contributions will help give them some small form of relief during this truly unfortunate time.
Funds received will be utilized to cover travel expenses with any excess being donated directly to World Central Kitchen.
Getting professionally trained chefs over to the relief zone is critically important as one professionally trained chef can prep much more food than civilian volunteers.
Thank you for your support.
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Background information on me: Chef Gale Gand is a nationally acclaimed pastry chef, restaurateur, cookbook author, television personality, teacher, entrepreneur, and mother. Chef Gand has been recognized as Outstanding Pastry Chef of the Year by The James Beard Foundation and by Bon Appetite magazine and has been inducted into the Chicago Chefs Hall of Fame. For 8 years, Gale hosted the Food Network series “Sweet Dreams,” the first nationally televised all-dessert show anywhere, now streaming on Discovery Plus. Gale is the founding pastry chef and partner of the beloved Chicago restaurant Tru, opened with long-time culinary partner Chef Rick Tramonto and restaurateur Rich Melman in 1999. Gale was the Chef in Residence in 2011 and 2012 at Elawa Farm in Lake Forest, Illinois. Gale teaches cooking classes all over the world with many venues throughout Chicagoland. She resides in Riverwoods, Illinois with her husband, Jimmy Seidita, and has 3 children, son Gio (26), and twin daughters Ella and Ruby (17).
Learn more: www.galegand.com