Michel Nischan Will Save the World with Soup: AOL.com

The chef and activist is taking his social mission to the commercial food sector with Wholesome Crave. Photograph by Tom Hopkins Photography.

Michel Nischan did not set out to be a warrior in the arena of food insecurity. The chef had long been at the forefront of the farm-to-table movement, working with local farmers on better growing practices and protection of heirloom varieties, to serve in his Milwaukee restaurant Fleur de Lis between 1981 and 1995. But it was, by his own admission, a self-serving proposition. Having grown up spending summers working on his grandfather’s farm he knew what real food tasted like he and wanted to bring those flavors to his customers.

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