Curtis Stone Cooks Up Opportunity
Curtis Stone isn’t your average celebrity chef. Earlier this year the Australian-born TV personality and restaurateur, who owns eateries in Los Angeles and Dallas, partnered with a group called Drought Angels to give 100 percent of the profits generated by the tasting menu at Maude, his Beverly Hills restaurant, to aid Australians affected by the country’s devastating fires.
It wasn’t the first time he had made such a move. Since 2016, Stone and his #Commit2One program have dedicated profits from the restaurant’s rotating menu to timely, important causes around the world. Additionally, Stone is committed to hiring homeless and low income people, to help make a change closer to home. More recently he has been hosting ticketed Zoom cooking classes in order to raise funds during the Covid-19 crisis.
“What Curtis has done through his #Commit2One partnerships lasts far longer than the year he devotes to a cause,” says Mark Loranger, president and CEO of the employment nonprofit Chrysalis, with whom Stone works. “For Chrysalis, we know that we still have an advocate who is continuing to change the lives of our clients and to change his industry’s perceptions about hiring people with challenging backgrounds. Beyond the nearly 70 Chrysalis clients who have worked in his kitchens, there are more than 100 other clients who have found employment because of connections that Curtis made.”
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