World Famous Chef Uses Leftover Olympic Food To Feed The Poor

Thousands of meals are being prepared daily to feed the poor using leftover Olympic food.

Noted Italian chef Massimo Bottura and other international chefs have created an initiative to feed the poor in Brazil using leftover food from the Olympic games.

Bottura’s restaurants have been listed in the top 5 of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants since 2010; and Osteria Francescana‘s three-Michelin-star restaurant based in Modena, Italy, is listed as No. 1 in The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2016.

Bottura teamed up with David Hertz from Brazil to launch the project; and, as The Telegraph reports, the two “were inspired by an initiative in Italy last year, Refetterio Ambrosiano, that brought 65 chefs together to cook meals using donated ingredients from the Milan World Expo.”

The project, named RefettoRio Gastromotiva, “aims to produce some 5,000 meals daily using only those ingredients that would otherwise head for the bin,” according to a separate report by The Independent.

“RefettoRio Gastromotiva is going to work only with ingredients that are about to be wasted … like ugly fruit and vegetables, or yogurt that is going to be wasted in two days if you don’t buy it,” Mr Hertz told Reuters.

“We want to fight hunger and provide access to good food.”

As The Telegraph reports, “Between 30 and 40 per cent of food produced around the world is never eaten because it is spoiled after harvest and during transportation, or thrown away by shops and consumers. Yet almost 800 million people worldwide go to bed hungry every night, according to UN figures.”

The Independent goes on to report that RefettoRio Gastromotiva will function as a “social business” after the conclusion of the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games and “will also provide vocational training for aspiring restaurant professionals,” and “Mr Hertz said he would like to see the initiative replicated in every city hosting the Olympics in future,” according to The Telegraph.

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