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On Sunday evening, more than thirty of Toronto's most celebrated chefs congregated in the open air of Yorkville Park for Toronto Taste, Second Harvest's biggest and most lavish fundraiser. Honouring its nineteenth year, the event raised $250,000 in just one night—enough to provide 500,000 meals for people in need. Torontoist was lucky to snag a couple of these hot tickets and chat with some of our city's food glitterati who—despite the challenges of running restaurants in this economy—are continuing to do their part to fight hunger.

Decades before the Chef Jeff Project and Jamie Oliver's Fifteen, a small group of dedicated chefs began an initiative to help Torontonians on social assistance learn the skills needed to work and thrive as professional cooks. Twenty-five years later, the Basic Culinary Skills Training Program's current director Kelvin Ramjattan and his crew of experienced and hard-working instructors—Adam Lariviere, Dan Prewer, and Kathy Marinkovic—are continuing to help change the lives of fifteen new students every three months in a fully equipped, industrial kitchen at the YMCA on Charles Street.