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Home » Chefs » OzHarvest CookUp 500

OzHarvest CookUp 500

24/02/2017 by Amanda

Fun and fundraising – CookUp 500, a great evening where Adelaide’s finest chefs and food personalities got together to support OzHarvest.

OzHarvest founder Ronni Kahn at cookup 500

OzHarvest founder Ronni Kahn at Adelaide’s CookUp 500

Last week I took part in CookUp 500, a major fundraiser for OzHarvest here in Adelaide – the most successful food rescue organisation in South Australia.  I’ve been sharing the love for OzHarvest since it’s launch in Adelaide in 2011 and at various events and milestones since then.

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Coal Cellar + Grill Exec Chef Daniel Fleming & MC Max Mason enjoying the fun.

The organisation has grown significantly since it’s launch and now has four food rescue vans collecting and delivering food across metro Adelaide from Gawler to Aldinga, with the addition of OzHarvest Barossa now collecting from the Farmers Market every week. With the help of 250 volunteers, OzHarvest now rescues, on average, 150,000 meals per month and also runs two education programs – NEST (Nutrition Education Sustenance Training) and Nourish – where they train and mentor disadvantaged youth through certified hospitality training.

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Hill of Grace restaurant Exec Chef Dennis Leslie.

Duncan Welgemoed at cookup 500

The team from Africola at CookUp 500.

CookUp 500 gave guests the chance to team up with some of Adelaide’s best chefs and get down to work cooking up rescued food into 500 meals to be distributed to the needy. Held at Bowden’s great new facility, Plant 4, and facilitated by OzHarvest’s charity partnership with Clipsal 500 Adelaide, everyone got busy chopping, slicing, cooking and then packing as donated food, which would otherwise have been thrown into landfill, became 500 gourmet dinners.

cookup 500, plant 4, Bowden

Plant 4 at Bowden was a hive of activity for CookUp 500.

The evening was enormous fun, jollied along by our MC, the ebullient Max Mason of  The Henry Austin restaurant. Once we had finished cooking and packing, we all headed upstairs to enjoy dinner and a refreshing drink or two while the major fundraising part of the event took place.

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Tasting Australia Creative Director Simon Bryant getting down to business.

An impressive range of items were auctioned off by Toop & Toop Real Estate’s Tim Threadgold during the course of the evening. These exclusive opportunities ranged from various private dining experiences, cooked by the likes of Duncan Welgemoed, Adelaide’s Coal Cellar + Grill at The Hilton and Bree May, a live art piece painted by artist Tom Buchanan on the night and a Scalextrics Set signed by Clipsal 500 Adelaide Drivers. They raised a resounding $31,840 – meaning that OzHarvest will be able to  rescue and deliver more than another 63,000 meals to people in need across Adelaide.

cookup 500 bree may

Adelaide food personality Bree May making sure her team understand the importance of carrots.

It’s a great feeling to be able to contribute back to the community and I’m very proud to be able to do so alongside some of the very best of Adelaide’s food community. OzHarvest has a very active Facebook page. If you’d like to help out, keep an eye on it to keep up to date with their busy calendar.

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  1. Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella

    February 24, 2017 at 9:31 pm

    OzHarvest is such a great charity and this is a great idea. 500meals is no mean feat!

  2. Jem @ Lost in Utensils

    February 27, 2017 at 9:09 am

    Fantastic! I’m an OzHarvest volunteer here in Brisbane and it’s just an awesome organisation.

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