LA Times’ annual food event Food Bowl has transformed this year into Food Bowl: Takeout and Give Back Cook-A-Thon live streamed on L.A. Times’ YouTube channel and Facebook page on Saturday Oct. 17 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, and on on Spectrum News 1 on Sunday Oct. 18 from 1 to 3 pm.
As part of the Takeout and Give Back campaign launched in August to create awareness for local restaurants and communities impacted by the pandemic, event proceeds will support hunger relief efforts in collaboration with the event’s charity partner, World Central Kitchen.
The online fundraiser will include conversations, cooking demonstrations, kitchen tours, and recipe tips from an all-star roster of local and international culinary talent.
Participating chefs include Alice Waters (Oakland), Ana Roš (Slovenia), Dominique Crenn (San Francisco), Éric Ripert (New York), Ferran Adrià (Spain), Fuchsia Dunlop (United Kingdom), José Andrés (Washington, D.C.), Josh Niland (Australia), Lamar Moore (Chicago), Musa Daĝdeviren (Turkey) and Zaiyu Hasegawa (Japan).
Local L.A. chefs and restaurateurs include Daniele Uditi (Pizzana), Dave Beran (Dialogue and Pasjoli), Greg Dulan (Dulan’s), John Cleveland and Roni Cleveland (Post & Beam), Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo (Jon & Vinny’s), Jonathan Whitener (All Day Baby and Here’s Looking at You), Ludo Lefebvre (Trois Mec), Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger (Border Grill), Nick Montgomery (Konbi), Steve Samson (Rossoblu) and Wes Avila.
Food personalities joining the conversation include Evan Kleiman (KCRW’s “Good Food”), Lisa McRee (Spectrum News 1 and L.A. Times’ “L.A. Times Today”) and writer and producer Phil Rosenthal (Netflix’s “Somebody Feed Phil”).
Celebrities lending their support include actors Danny Trejo, Jack Black, Jamie Lee Curtis and Eric Wareheim.
World Central Kitchen founder José Andrés will present a special cooking demonstration, chef Greg Dulan will share his tips and tricks for cooking fried chicken and Australian seafood master Josh Niland will demonstrate how to clean a whole fish.
Eric Wareheim will showcase his culinary knife skills, Jack Black will talk about his favorite “yum yums”; Danny Trejo will discuss his passion for spices and his “Machete” kitchen knife; and Jamie Lee Curtis will discuss her favorite LA takeout restaurants for the pandemic.
Virtual kitchen tours will provide an inside look at the cooking spaces of acclaimed chefs Daniele Uditi (Pizzana), Lamar Moore (Bugsy Meyer), Mary Sue Milliken (Border Grill) and Zaiyu Hasegawa (Den).
World Central Kitchen chef partner Ludo Lefebvre and L.A. Times Senior Food Writer Jenn Harris will host a live discussion about the pandemic’s impact on the global food crisis and how the restaurant industry has been meeting the moment.
L.A. Times Deputy Entertainment and Arts Editor Laurie Ochoa will present the fourth annual Gold Award to Post & Beam, followed by a live discussion with the restaurant’s chef-owner, John Cleveland.
The Takeout and Give Back Cook-A-Thon is sponsored by Food Bowl’s founding partner, Citi.
To RSVP for the event and for additional information on how to donate, please visit lafoodbowl.com, and connect on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @LAfoodbowl (#LAfoodbowl).