According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 4.6 million Ukrainians have fled their war-torn country since February 24, crossing borders into Poland, Hungary, Romania and the Republic of Moldova. Being forced to flee their homes and any semblance of their past lives can take a heavy toll and volunteers are doing what they can to at least provide a hot comforting meal at the end of the day.
The World Central Kitchen (WCK) started in 2010 by Spanish chef José Andrés, has been working on ground with partner restaurants to provide over nine million daily meals to the refugees. #ChefsforUkraine a culinary collective, has prepared over 3,00,000 of those meals, with chefs, many from across the Atlantic, bringing meals to hungry, homeless and weary families.
One such chef is US-based Noah Sims. From a MasterChef US kitchen, to cooking comfort food at kitchens in Poland, Sims made the transition quite easily. The American chef from Epworth, Georgia, who took the number four spot in Season 10 of the culinary competition, is on the last leg of his second trip to cook for refugees at the WCK in Przemyśl, Poland. The team has been consistently making over 8,000 sandwiches a day, to go with meals of chicken stew, salad and tabouleh. With a ‘10k Sandwiches for $10k’ fundraising event on April 12, the kitchen was brimming with energy. American chef Marc Murphy, and actor Liev Schreiber are amongst a host of cooks who travelled to help, harnessing their collective social media weight for a successful ‘10k Tuesday’.
