Yahoo: Massimo Bottura opens Refettorio Paris with his celebrity chef friends
March 15, 2018
Flanked by two of his triple Michelin-starred friends, Alain Ducasse and Yannick Alleno, chef Massimo Bottura officially opened Refettorio Paris Thursday at the historic Madeleine Church, where celebrity chefs and culinary students will transform supermarket surplus into meals for the homeless.
In front of journalists, local celebrity chefs and the food glitterati, Bottura asked the audience to refrain from calling the project a "charity."
"This is not a charity," he said in French.
"This is a cultural project, to combat food waste."
Refettorio Paris is the latest opening from Bottura's non-profit organization Food for Soul, whose goal is to fight food waste and hunger with the help of his chef friends around the world.
