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Eater's Digest

How Chef Ed Lee Is Fighting to Feed Restaurant Workers Across the Country

Eater's Digest

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Food, Comedy, Arts, News Commentary, Improv

4.4902 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Chef Ed Lee and his non-profit The Lee Initiative have opened kitchens all across America to help feed out of work restaurant workers. Find more information here: https://leeinitiative.org/ and donate to the Restaurant Workers Relief Fund here: https://leeinitiative.kindful.com/ Hosts: Amanda Kludt (@kludt), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen (@danielgeneen), Producer, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom. Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here. Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram Get in Touch: [email protected] About Eater: Eater obsessively covers the world through the lens of food, telling stories via audio, television, digital video, and publications in 24 cities across the US and UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Once upon a time, Disney was a motion picture studio in a sea of Hollywood studios doing something nobody else was doing.

0:09.0

Disney's business is memory making. Disney's business is tradition.

0:15.0

But here's the thing about kingdoms.

0:17.0

They don't last forever.

0:18.0

To survive, Disney had to grow.

0:21.0

But has that tremendous growth eroded what made Disney, Disney.

0:24.3

And I don't know the world cares that this is a Disney movie anymore. I'm Joe

0:29.6

Italian. I'm hosting Land of the Giants, the Disney Telepa, from Bulcher on the Box Media Podcast Network.

0:35.0

Follow Land of the Giants wherever you listen to hear new episodes every Wednesday. Hi everyone and welcome to Eaters Digest show about all things food and dining.

0:51.1

I'm Amanda Clute editor and chief chief of eater. Oh and I am Daniel

0:53.9

Janine I am a producer here at eater. This week on the show we are talking to the

0:58.9

chef and restaurateur Ed Lee about the relief efforts he's spearheading across the country.

1:05.0

It is super inspiring, really important work that he's doing right now,

1:10.0

and he's going to tell us all about how he got it off the ground and

1:13.7

what help he still needs. It's such a hard thing to go from running

1:17.8

restaurants to like deciding what cities are getting fed, you know?

1:23.7

Yeah, yeah.

1:25.0

But also so emblematic of the spirit of this industry

1:29.2

because restaurants always do want to, I don't disaster they want to cook their way out of

1:36.2

problems they want to feed their communities so it doesn't surprise me that so many relief

1:40.7

efforts have popped up around the restaurant industry, but it's also

1:44.2

incredibly hard because it is this industry that is being so heavily impacted.

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