{"id":13123,"date":"2023-12-29T11:15:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T17:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=13123"},"modified":"2023-12-29T12:38:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T18:38:26","slug":"wca-and-the-elders-of-wlbott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=13123","title":{"rendered":"WCK and the Elders of WLBOTT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Elders – in lieu of holiday presents, we\u2019ve made a contribution to World Central Kitchen<\/strong> (WCK) in honor of the Elders to be used to provide food in places like Gaza and Ukraine. I\u2019ve been following WCK for years and believe it is a worthy cause to be associated with WLBOTT <\/strong>– food to those in need. Happy holidays!
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To UC#3, we say:
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World Central Kitchen (WCK)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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“WCK is first to the frontlines, providing meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises.”
– WCK<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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World Central Kitchen (WCK) is a not-for-profit non-governmental organization devoted to providing meals in the wake of natural disasters. Founded in 2010 by chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s, the organization prepared food in Haiti following its devastating earthquake. Its method of operations is to be a first responder and then to collaborate and galvanize solutions with local chefs to solve the problem of hunger, immediately following a disaster.
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World Central Kitchen: Ukraine<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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World Central Kitchen founder Chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s receives the 2023 Humanitarian Impact Award.
– Center for European Policy Analysis<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

You can read an extended interview<\/a> between Alina Polyakova<\/strong>. President and CEO of the Center for European Policy Analysis and Chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s<\/strong>, founder of World Central Kitchen here. They discuss WCK’s impact in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russian Missile Attack on WCK<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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A charity kitchen in Ukraine linked to chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s was destroyed by a missile<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A charity kitchen in Ukraine linked to celebrity chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s’ World Central Kitchen was destroyed by a missile, according to a tweet from the nonprofit’s CEO, Nate Mook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The nonprofit has been on the ground serving families fleeing Ukraine since the day after the Russian invasion began. – NPR<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Russians sent a missile into a WCK kitchen in Kharkiv on April 15th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An update I hoped I\u2019d never have to make. I\u2019m at a @WCKitchen restaurant in Kharkiv, where less than 24 hours ago I was meeting with their amazing team. Today, a missile stuck. 4 staff were wounded. This is the reality here\u2014cooking is a heroic act of bravery.<\/strong><\/em>
– Nate Mook<\/a>, CEO of WCK.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Just a tremendous amount of carnage left behind for no reason,” Mook added. “In this area, there are offices, there are residences. People live here, people work here, people cook here and that’s it … absolutely horrific brutality.” – Nate Mook (People Magazine<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Light and Dark<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s<\/strong> is a celebrity chef, but he\u2019s much more than that: He\u2019s a real hombre.<\/em><\/strong> The word \u201chombre\u201d is particularly apt in that Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s is an American who began life in Spain. Throughout the current war, he has been in Ukraine, feeding people…. I believe that, when he returns home, he should be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Jay Nordlinger, National Review<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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World Central Kitchen: Gaza<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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WCK Relief Kitchen opens in Gaza<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

World Central Kitchen, alongside our partners, has provided more than 11.5 million meals in the region in the form of freshly prepared, hot meals and food kits. We have overcome immense challenges to begin cooking from WCK\u2019s first Relief Kitchen in Gaza. Through our kitchen and those of our partners, we are quickly scaling our capacity to cook for people fleeing for their lives. – WCK<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>

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You can keep up with WCK’s latest Gaza updates on their Twitter channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Semi-Sequitur: Large Pots<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Elders – in lieu of holiday presents, we\u2019ve made a contribution to World Central Kitchen (WCK) in honor of the Elders to be used to provide food in places like Gaza and Ukraine. I\u2019ve been following WCK for years and believe it is a worthy cause to be associated with WLBOTT – food to those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47,19,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-of-the-elders","category-food","category-heros"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13123"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13214,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13123\/revisions\/13214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}