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Leading chefs make free meals for poor
Free gastronomic dinners

Michelin star chefs are offering free gastronomic dinners made with unsold supermarket food and prepared by volunteers to poor families in Paris.
Refettorio community kitchen in the Madeleine crypt has the support of chefs such as Alain Ducasse and Anne Sophie Pic.