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Philadelphia's Annual Great Chefs Event Brings Superstar Chefs To City, Raises Money For Alex's Lemonade Stand

The Great Chefs Event is one of Philadelphia's premier food events, and it's just weeks away.

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May 21, 2024

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - The Great Chefs Event is one of Philadelphia's premier food events, and it's just weeks away. It began in 2006 as a way to support Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, and in that first year raised $1,000.

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Now in its 16th year, that amount has grown to millions, and it shows no sign of stopping.

If you get a chance to have an award-winning chef make you a pizza, you don't pass that up.

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Chef Mark Vetri loads up a pizza with red onions, cheese and thin-sliced lemon ahead of the Great Chefs Event benefitting the Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation/CBS News Philadelphia

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