Chefs for Humanity Announces eBay Auction for UNICEF

Chefs for Humanity Announces eBay Auction for UNICEF

Event Runs Sept. 12-21, Features 23 World-Famous Chefs

NEW YORK, Aug. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Chefs for Humanity, a new nonprofit organization founded by Cat Cora, the first female Iron Chef on the Food Network's Iron Chef America, presents its inaugural event with the Jackets off our Backs eBay auction Sept. 12 - 21.

Nearly two dozen world-famous chefs, including 10 celebrity chefs from the Food Network, have donated autographed jackets for the auction. The jackets will be auctioned on eBay for 10 days, with the proceeds benefiting UNICEF, the world's leading children's relief organization.

"So many children and families in this world are hungry every day," Cora said. "They don't have proper food, adequate nutrition, and in many instances the infrastructure in place to make their lives better. We have to help. As someone who has made a living with food, I had to help. That is why I founded Chefs for Humanity.

"This eBay auction is just the first of many activities that will help raise money for humanitarian efforts in our country and around the world."

Auction participants include: Food Network's Mario Batali, Cat Cora, Bobby Flay, Tyler Florence, Gale Gand, Emeril Lagasse, Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto, Sara Moulton, Rachael Ray, and Ming Tsai.

Other chefs include: Charlie Ayers, former chef for the Grateful Dead and current chef for Google; Rick Bayless, owner of Frontera Grill and Topolobampa in Chicago and host of PBS' Mexico -- One Plate at a Time; David Burke, executive chef at New York's The River Cafe and Park Avenue Cafe; Todd English, who stars on the PBS reality show Cooking Under Fire; Elizabeth Faulkner, executive pastry chef and managing partner of San Francisco's Citizen Cake patisserie restaurant bar; Mark Franz, executive chef and co- owner of San Francisco's Farallon Restaurant; Thomas Keller, owner of Napa Valley's French Laundry, Las Vegas' Bouchon and New York's Per Se; Emily Luchetti, pastry chef at Farallon Restaurant; Nancy Oaks, owner of San Francisco's Boulevard; Jacques Pepin, one of America's best-known TV chefs who has hosted the acclaimed PBS series Today's Gourmet; Art Smith, Oprah's personal chef; Rick Tramonto, executive chef at Chicago's TRU Restaurant; and Norman Van Aken, owner of NORMAN'S in Miami, Orlando and Los Angeles.

About Chefs for Humanity

Chefs for Humanity is a non-profit organization dedicated to changing lives impacted by hunger and tragedy. Founded in 2004 by renowned chefs Cat Cora and Patrick McDonnell, Chefs for Humanity's coalition of world-famous culinary professionals responds when disaster aid and hunger relief are needed around the world. The organization mobilizes new audiences and resources to raise funds for worldwide humanitarian efforts and seeks to develop health and nutrition education programs to permanently improve the lives of those affected by hunger, malnutrition and poverty. For more information, visit http://www.chefsforhumanity.org/.

About UNICEF

Founded in 1946, UNICEF helps save, protect and improve the lives of children around the world through immunization, education, health care, nutrition, clean water and sanitation. UNICEF is non-partisan and its cooperation is free of discrimination. In everything it does, the most disadvantaged children and the countries in greatest need have priority. For more information or to make a donation, please visit http://www.unicefusa.org/ or call 1 (800) 4 UNICEF.

Source: Chefs for Humanity

CONTACT: Vickie Jones, +1-202-333-0400, x128, vjones@reingold.com, for
Chefs for Humanity

Web site: http://www.chefsforhumanity.org/
http://www.unicefusa.org/

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