Philanthropy Begins Close to Home for Chef Tim Love (VIDEO)
Express gratitude for good fortune by giving back to the local community this holiday season. Chef Tim Love, owner of a number of high-profile restaurants in Texas, dedicates his time and talent to Burgers 4 Babies and Spoons Across America – charities in which he is personally vested. “You know it goes back to the old way of saying, ‘You’ve got to give to receive,’” Love says.
Watch Tim Love discuss how Burgers 4 Babies impacts his local community of Fort Worth, Texas:
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Tim Love
Love, whose twin daughters were born premature and spent time in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), started Burgers 4 Babies to help ease the stress of other families with preemies.
“I fly in chefs from all over the country and we do a big bash and we take all the money and we build a new room at the NICU in Fort Worth, Texas,” Love says. “It’s directly related to people in my own community and also directly makes people’s experience in that NICU a lot better.”
Spoons Across America, a source for children’s culinary education, educates children, teachers and families about the benefits of healthful eating.
Love sits on the board and participates in a Spoons program called The Dinner Party Project.
“I teach kids (5th-8th graders) how to throw dinner parties,” he says. “We teach them not only to cook the meal, but also the manners at the table, and how you greet guests at your home.”
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Love is convinced that sharing meals around the family table opens lines of communication.
“My kids tell me everything that happens at the dinner table,” he says. “There’s a sense of trust I think with kids when they sit down and they’re eating a meal. Turn the TV off, put the phones away, and just have a roast chicken. How much you learn about your children in that 30 minutes is unbelievable.”
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