FEEDING FAMILIES AND NOURISHING
SOULS
W
hen your passion is food, like it is for Chef Jagger Gordon, you tend to see things that others might not.
Chef Jagger Gordon Feeds it Forward
Gordon started as a contracted security specialist, and then began a career in catering, specializing in gastronomy. Gordon attended culinary school and travelled the world to work with great chefs, experiencing global cultures and culinary flavour profiles, which led him to bring all of that knowledge back with him to Canada. Through his work in the kitchen, he became acutely aware and profoundly disappointed in the amount of food that would be wasted after every event. After one event where Gordon was stuck with plates upon plates of wasted food, he decided to give out free meals to those in need. Hundreds of people showed up, and thus began his philanthropic and entrepreneurial adventure. With the knowledge of how much of Canada’s food ends up in landfills and the promise to feed families, Chef Jagger made it his personal mission to find a solution to end food waste. He started Feed It Forward, a volunteer-run federal not-for-profit, as part of the solution to tackle this mission. Chef Jagger knows that food is not a privilege, and with hungry people to feed, he knows that good food should never go to waste.
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