New York Chef Turns Michelin-Starred Eatery Into Charity Kitchen in COVID-19 Crisis

New York Chef Turns Michelin-Starred Eatery Into Charity Kitchen in COVID-19 Crisis
Chef and owner Daniel Humm in the shuttered dining room of Eleven Madison Park. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
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NEW YORK—Chef Daniel Humm of Eleven Madison Park, who is used to being paid for fine dining with exclusive black credit cards, says his richest reward during the COVID-19 crisis is the grateful smiles of poor New Yorkers fed by the Michelin three-starred restaurant he has turned into a charity kitchen.

Cooks at his Manhattan eatery, which was named World’s Best Restaurant in 2017 by the World’s 50 Best Restaurants Academy, are preparing 3,000 meals a day for frontline workers and underprivileged New Yorkers, most of them distributed at a Harlem church.