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CHICO, California (KGO) –
The volunteers worked tirelessly to prepare thousands of Thanksgiving dinners for camp evacuees. It brings challenges, rewards and liters of sauce.
Daniel Grice is the executive chef of the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico. He can be a hard critic.
"It tastes like flower now," said Grice, trying somebody's sauce.
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Grice needs the sauce to have a taste as good as a lot prepared by grandmother. His Sierra Nevada Brewing team is working on making 80 gallons!
It's the third week of Grice at work, so he must keep his promises.
"It's definitely the biggest crew I've had to prepare this big meal and the biggest reason for doing it," Grice said.
The sauce will accompany the thousands of meals that Grice and her team prepare for Camp Fire evacuees.
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The company collaborates with World Central Kitchen. The organization plans to serve 15,000 Thanksgiving dinners to Paradise victims during Thanksgiving.
Ken Grossman is the owner of Sierra Nevada Brewing and is also dirty hands.
"It's very personal for us," Grossman said.
"About 14% of our Chico employees have lost their homes and just about everyone here has friends or families who have also lost their homes," said Robin Gregory, spokesperson for Sierra Nevada Brewing.
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About 10 minutes later, another group of Chico's Free Evangelical Church is preparing for the same thing.
Vincent Sanchez, founder of the Napa Valley Barbecue Foundation Fund, leads the team of volunteers. He began his foundation to help feed the evacuees after his community in Napa Valley was devastated by the North Bay fires.
The last days have brought back difficult memories.
"It's difficult, but at the same time, cooking for others is a cathartic way of working through that," said Sanchez.
The kitchen that Sanchez was working had the smell of pomegranate and potatoes, and if hope had a smell, maybe too.
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