Gil Galasso has set up a school in the infamous Jungle camp and is using the art of the table to transform his students’ lives
The Jungle in Calais is not a place associated with luxury, or fine dining; the refugees and migrants in the vast makeshift camp on the edge of the French port live in squalid conditions, surviving on a basic meal a day.
But for one week a small corner of the camp has been transformed by one of France’s most renowned experts in the arts of the table. Gil Galasso– a famed maître d’ with more than three decades of experience – turned a timber and plastic tent into a school teaching the most precious of French skills to a select group of migrants.
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