Can you feed people for $1.25 without using processed foods? Former Noma head chef Dan Giusti thinks it is possible

May 18, 2018

Dan Giusti, the former head chef of Noma in Copenhagen is inviting 10 world class American chefs to Brigaid’s hub in New London to compete in the first ever $1.25 throwdown. The chefs will be devising school lunches that fit within both the national school nutrition standards and the $1.25 budget.

The event takes place on Saturday 2 June and the guest chefs will cook head to head serving school lunches to the public. The people attending the event will get to savour one of these school lunches and also to join Brigaid for the after party that evening.

The chefs taking part in the event are Stuart Brioza from San Francisco, Jessica Koslow from Los Angeles, Jeremy Fox from Santa Monica, Mei Lin from Los Angeles, Nate Appleman from New York, Jeremiah Langhorne from Washington, James Wayman from Connecticut, Brandon Rodgers from San Francisco, David Posey from Chicago and the Ghetto Gastro (Jon Gray, Pierre Serrao, Lester Walker and Malcolm Livingstone) from Bronx, New York.

To support the event, Dan Giusti has launched a fundraiser. He aims to collect $150,000 which will go to support New London Public Schools which is not only their pilot site but also the hub for everything they do. They have used New London as the site for development for the past two years and want to continue to partner with New London Public Schools for research and development in all things relating to school food. The goal is to develop Brigaid as one of the best school food service programmes in the United States. So far, over $15,000 have been raised.

For those interesting in supporting this good cause, the support also includes Dan Cooking for you, a dinner for six at In Situ/SFMOMA Experience, signed cookbooks and much more.

Led by Giusti, Brigaid is a group of chefs rethinking what it means to feed people. They recruit professionally trained chefs to lead school kitchens full-time with the goal of cooking delicious food from scratch. These meals simultaneously meet the strict budgetary and nutritional guidelines set by the National School Lunch Program and the quality standards Brigaid has.

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Written by Ivan Brincat / Food and Wine Gazette

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