Chef Ben Kramer has helped to estab­lish Win­nipeg as one of the most vibrant food scenes in North Amer­i­ca. He was one of the first to cham­pi­on the use of local, sus­tain­able ingre­di­ents and Ocean Wise cer­ti­fied fish at the dynam­ic Dan­de­lion Eatery. As the Exec­u­tive Chef of Diver­si­ty Food Ser­vices, Chef Kramer cham­pi­oned a social enter­prise approach and intro­duced a sus­tain­able menu to the cam­pus com­mu­ni­ty based on the belief that every­thing should be made from scratch using local ingredients. 

Before the Coro­n­avirus out­break, one in eight Cana­di­ans strug­gled to put healthy nutri­tious food on the table. Through­out the pan­dem­ic, as lay­offs increased, food inse­cu­ri­ty became an even big­ger nation­al cri­sis. Through Made With Love, Kramer and his team have devel­oped a high-qual­i­ty, nutri­tious take-home meal menu that will be pre­pared using the high­est food safe­ty stan­dards. These meals will be dis­trib­uted through sev­er­al Win­nipeg orga­ni­za­tions that are on the front-line in try­ing to help com­mu­ni­ties dur­ing the COVID-19 and ever deep­en­ing food inse­cu­ri­ty crisis. 

To date, more than 35, 000 meals have been deliv­ered to Win­nipeg­gers in need dur­ing the pandemic.