Yotam Ottolenghi, Asma Khan, Stanley Tucci and other acclaimed chefs and restauranteurs have taken part in a poetic appeal to support the Food For London Now campaign and London’s hospitality industry.
Sixty-four celebrity chefs, food writers and restauranteurs took turns to read lines of a poem that celebrates the quality and diversity of London’s restaurant industry.
In a video that included two of the Evening Standard’s renowned restaurant critics, Fay Maschler and Jimi Famurewa, figures appeared in studies, kitchens and outside closed premises to praise the response of restaurants in delivering food to customers and supporting the NHS during the coronavirus pandemic.