Chefs Join Together Providing Meals to the Community Fridge during the Holiday Season

 

Chefs Join Together Providing Meals to the Community Fridge during the Holiday Season

Heather and D’Andre, along with volunteers from Evanston Community Fridges, stock the refrigerator and pantry outside the Soul & Smoke location at 1601 Payne St., Evanston year-round. The need increases during the winter and the holidays, and to address demand this year, they asked Chef Sarah Stegner of Prairie Grass Cafe & co-founder of Chicago Chefs Cook to help organize additional contributions to the pantry.

Through dedicated outreach efforts, a group of chefs, many of whom are consistent participants in Chicago Chefs Cook events, have stepped up and joined together again to help stock the fridge. This will provide additional free meals to fill the fridge for anyone in need. The special chef contributions will be offered throughout the holiday season.

"We are grateful to the chef community for answering the call to action to fill Soul & Smoke’s Community Fridge!" said Stegner. Community members that would like to help can also add items to the fridge, pantry, or freezer year-round, or can donate funds to Soul & Smoke’s community fridges program or by adding a community meal to a restaurant order.

Chefs participating by preparing meals include:

Heather Bublick and D’Andre Carter, Soul & Smoke

Sarah Stegner and George Bumbaris, Prairie Grass Cafe

Tigist Reda, Demera Ethiopian Restaurant

Arshiya Farheen, Verzênay Chicago

Mary Aregoni, Saigon Sisters

Devon Quinn and Jodi Fyfe, eden, The Paramount Group

Sandra Holl, Floriole

Sam Rattanopas and Mina Sudsaard, Nakorn Kitchen

Darnell Reed, Luella’s Southern Kitchen

Beverly Kim Clark and Johnny Clark, Parachute and Anelya Restaurant

Alex DeSalvo, DeSalvo’s Pizza

Debbie Gold, Le Tour

Evanston Community Fridges is a mutual aid network rooted in collective community care through access to free food. We organize fridges hosted within our city to feed one another. We take responsibility for meeting each other's needs without relying on ineffective institutions to provide nourishment and cultural affirmation.



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