{"id":25787,"date":"2019-02-22T11:30:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T19:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25787"},"modified":"2019-02-22T11:30:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T19:30:49","slug":"chef-bruno-serato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/chef-bruno-serato\/","title":{"rendered":"California Chef Helping America&#8217;s Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/brunochf.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Academy Award-winning Actress Sophia Loren describes Southern California&#8217;s Bruno Serato (pictured) as &#8220;Italy&#8217;s most famous culinary export.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To the underprivileged kids he feeds, to the families he has helped into apartments, to the youth he graduated from his Hospitality Academy, Serato is a life changer.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the humble man&#8217;s inspiring efforts, over 2 million free meals have been provided for underprivileged kids; 202 needy families have been housed; and more than 60 youth have graduated from his academy.<\/p>\n<p>His life mission began with the love he learned in his family, especially from his devoted mama, Caterina. On April 18, 2005, Bruno, and his mom, were at the Boys &amp; Girls Club of Anaheim, where they spotted a cute, 7-year-old boy named Billy, eating a bag of potato chips. This would change both their lives forever!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s probably all Billy will eat between now and bedtime,&#8221; said Mike Baker, the club&#8217;s executive director. &#8220;He could be a motel kid. Some of the boys and girls live in motels because their parents can&#8217;t afford an apartment and they have no kitchen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Caterina, who was visiting from Italy, told Bruno, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you make some pasta for these kids?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They both hurried back to his restaurant, made tomato sauce and rushed back with spaghetti for Billy and 50 of his peers. The hungry kids loved it and thanked them. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/authors\/bruno-serato.html\">Read the full story&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academy Award-winning Actress Sophia Loren describes Southern California&#8217;s Bruno Serato (pictured) as &#8220;Italy&#8217;s most famous culinary export.&#8221; To the underprivileged kids he feeds, to the families he has helped into apartments, to the youth he graduated from his Hospitality Academy, Serato is a life changer. Thanks to the humble man&#8217;s inspiring efforts, over 2 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25787"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25788,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25787\/revisions\/25788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}