Sat Jun 29, 4:00 PM - Sat Jun 29, 9:00 PM
1053 Goss Ave, Louisville, KY 40217

Community: Louisville

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15 local chefs serving up Anthony Bourdain inspired street food. For the price of admission you can enjoy an item from each chef. Chef-driven event seeks to raise awareness and need for help for restaurant industry workers battling addiction and mental health issues Jus

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15 local chefs serving up Anthony Bourdain inspired street food. For the price of admission you can enjoy an item from each chef. Chef-driven event seeks to raise awareness and need for help for restaurant industry workers battling addiction and mental health issues Just one year ago, many were shocked by the news that Anthony Bourdain, famed chef, author and TV personality, had died of suicide. Sadly, such tragic endings aren’t uncommon in the restaurant industry, where stress levels are high, hours are long, the pace is frenetic and the pay is generally low. The end result, as researchers have found, is a trade group unusually susceptible to drug and alcohol addiction and mental illness.In honor of Bourdain and in an effort to raise awareness for mental illness and addiction in restaurants, a cadre of world-renowned chefs have declared June 25 Anthony Bourdain day. Dovetailing into that effort, local chef, barbecue pitmaster and Four Pegs restaurant owner, Chris Williams, is hosting a fundraiser dubbed A Taste for Life, on June 29, at the restaurant (1503 Goss Ave. in Germantown 40217). The event, scheduled from 4-9 p.m., will feature chefs from 15 local restaurants preparing food for patrons eager to support this cause.Beneficiaries of proceeds from the event include the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Centerstone, an addiction recovery center, and the Everything will be OK Project, a mental health advocacy organization.“With A Taste for Life, we want to hammer home the point that working in the service industry is incredibly hard on those who make and serve our guests’ food,” said Williams. “Working long hours and nights in this business often keeps us away from our loved ones, family and friends and that puts us at risk for mental illness, addiction and suicide.”Williams added that many in the industry suffering from those challenges don’t know how to get help.“Part of what we’re doing with A Taste for Life is highlighting the available resources for not only service industry employees, but everyone in need,” he said. “And, hopefully, the proceeds we raise from this will help fund these causes.”Some of the city’s top chefs have volunteered to cook for the event and serve up Bourdain style Str

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