One of the world’s leading chefs who has been running a project throughout the Olympics to provide meals for the homeless of Rio de Janeiro has said he was inspired to do it because it was an opportunity to make a difference. Italian Massimo Bottura and his volunteers are using leftover raw ingredients from the athlete’s village to provide 108 free dinners each evening. He was inspired after calculating that each meal for the 18,000 participating athletes, their coaches…
Top chefs are cooking hundreds of meals for the homeless using leftovers from athletes in Rio
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