Bracken’s Kitchen Giving Tuesday Chefs to End Hunger

Orange County based Bracken’s Kitchen, a nonprofit committed to combatting food insecurity by providing one tasty meal at a time has partnered with LA Specialty and Chef's to End Hunger.  

The mission of Chefs to End Hunger is to provide meals to the hungry by redistributing the excess prepared food that would normally go to waste in hotels, restaurants, and other foodservice operations to local food agencies to serve the meals.

Rescuing leftover food is one of the newest and biggest movements in California since the passage of the Good Samaritan Food Donation Act.  One of the challenges that local hunger relief agencies face is the ability to take this rescued food and cook, prepare or process it, creating healthy and nutritious meals. 

At Bracken's Kitchen they are tackling that very challenge in support of many of the smaller hunger relief agencies in Southern California.

“We will recover the excess prepared food that would normally go to waste in hotels, restaurants, and other foodservice operations using it to prepare nutritious and tasty meals for those who need it most,” says Bracken's Kitchen founder Bill Bracken. “We will use this process to train at risk young men and women for jobs in the culinary world, providing them not just a hand out but a true hand up to a better life.”

Bracken’s Kitchen is also introducing culinary training to those kids who are aging out of the foster system as well as other at risk young adults. 

“By using the "Chef's To End Hunger" program we will have a steady supply of food products that we will use to train our clients.  And in doing so we will turn the rescued food products into meals to serve those who need it most,” Bracken says.

During this holiday season, you can provide a hot, tasty and nutritious meal to those who need it most by making a donation in support of Bracken’s Kitchen’s programs.