CLEVELAND, Ohio – Brandon Christowski has made a mission out of using his restaurant to change people’s lives. He takes the same approach with his world travels.
Chrostowski, who runs Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute , is headed to Ukraine to cook and to spread the mission of food as a centralized way of helping others. The trip is Nov. 3-11.
He sought to raise $25,000 for the trip; he wound up with $35,000. The money is earmarked for a children’s hospital project in Stryi for a kitchen remodel, putting money into the facility and using some to help wounded soldiers.
In recent years Chrostowski has traveled to war-torn areas to serve food, cook and help people in need. It will be the restaurateur’s fourth trip to Ukraine and his sixth overall, including ones to Africa and Isra