YOUNG CHEF SELLS PIZZAS FROM HIS SECOND STORY WINDOWFOR CHARITY!
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Ben Berman had a pizza party scheduled with his friends, then the pandemic hit. Although he canceled the party, he didn’t cancel the pizza. He bought 40 yards of thick string from Amazon and constructed a pulley system by his window, just so he could safely lower fresh, hot pizza into the hands of his friends.
“This was just about making my friends smile. I can be self- conscious about whether my pizzas are good enough, but I knew at least if I dropped it out of the window, people would get a kick out of them,” Berman told TODAY Food. But instead of stopping there, the young chef decided to do something phenomenal. He kept making pizza and sent every cent of his earnings to charity. His passion for cooking evolved into a booming nonprofit called Philabundance that has raised over $30,000 to fight food insecurity and homelessness in Philadelphia. “It felt like food security and homelessness needed even a bigger boost this year. And these places in Philly were moving the needle,” Berman said about Philabundance. What led him to start this nonprofit? Raised in Portland, Maine, Berman and his connection with cooking started with his mother, Kerri. “My mom, who’s an amazing cook, taught me about food as a love language and a driving force to connect people. I’m never as comfortable as when I am with friends around a dinner table.” In high school, he worked in local restaurant kitchens, and, by 2012, he launched his own food truck called Mainely Burgers. He sold the company two years later, which included two trucks serving sandwiches and burgers, although one of them focused on homemade ice cream and root beer floats. Berman has never had formal training as a chef. Instead, he’s learned about producing food on a larger scale through experience. Although he is pursuing an MBA at the University of Pennsylvania, Berman is cooking again — for hundreds of strangers this time! Berman gets so many requests that he’s created a lottery system. With over 900 requests every week, 20 are randomly selected for pickup on Sunday nights. Hey, it’s a nonprofit organization operated from a second story apartment by a busy MBA student nonetheless! Without a doubt, this is one of the most amazing gigs that anyone could create for themselves.
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