The Italian chef Massimo Bottura has been awarded the prize of The European Chef of The Year at the Madrid Fusion culinary congress. Organisers say Bottura was picked as the recipient of the award for the solidarity work he undertook during Expo Milano - in which he was one of the Ambassadors.

His main project, Refettorio Ambrosiano, was a huge undertaking that saw more than 40 world famous chefs arrive in Italy to man the stoves of a soup kitchen that took the leftover food from the Expo's supermarket site and utilised it to feed up to 90 guests a night - many of them homeless.

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