Just like every baseball player needs a glove, every cook/chef needs his knives. Recently a fire swept through the kitchen of one of Spain's top restaurants.
Here's the details from John Sconzo over @ Docsonz:
Early on Monday February 15th, fire severely damaged the kitchens at Mugaritz, the world-famous restaurant in Spain's Basque Country. Luckily, no-one was hurt. For the management and staff of Mugaritz, the destruction of their workplace was a tragedy. But for three other young people, this was also a calamity.
Stagières are unpaid apprentices, usually young, without whom no top restaurant can function. Driven by a common passion to learn from the world's best chefs, they travel from all corners of the globe to train at world-class restaurants. When the dust settled on Mugaritz after last Monday's inflagration, Mattias from Sweden, Diego from Guatemala and Greg from the US found themselves without their most valued possessions. Their precious knife sets, not covered by the restaurant's insurance, had been incinerated.John has taken the lead and set up a fund to help the young stages with replacing there knives. More information can be found here about donating to a well worth it cause and help these guys out. I can tell you, I treasure my knives and would be lost without them - I'm betting these guys feel the same way.
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