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Slideshow: Star Chefs Serving Kid Food Raise Over $1 Million for Academy for Global Citizenship

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Okay, the theme was childhood favorites reinterpreted by chefs, so the students from the Academy for Global Citizenship who were there passing out the lemonade probably didn’t try the oyster sliders, say. (The nutella paninis, that’s more their speed.) But the stellar lineup of chefs assembled by Tony Mantuano for the first Chefs’ Playground benefiting the innovative South Side charter school did all right by the kids, raising over a million dollars to benefit their globally-focused, sustainability-driven school. Our man Huge Galdones was there and brought us back a bunch of celebrity chef (and other) images, as well as the tasty things they made last night; see his slideshow below.

Tony Mantuano, master of all he surveys at Terzo Piano, before the event begins. Photo: Eugene (Huge) Galdones/? 2013 Galdones Photography // All Rights Reserved
Academy For Global Citizenship students handed out lemonade as the guests arrived. Photo: Eugene (Huge) Galdones/? 2013 Galdones Photography // All Rights Reserved
Newly minted James Beard Award winner Paul Kahan catches up with Mantuano and Giuseppe Tentori. Photo: Eugene (Huge) Galdones/? 2013 Galdones Photography // All Rights Reserved
Bill Kim and crew are ready for guests. Photo: Eugene (Huge) Galdones/? 2013 Galdones Photography // All Rights Reserved
BellyQ’s Korean pancake with goat cheese. Photo: Eugene (Huge) Galdones/? 2013 Galdones Photography // All Rights Reserved
Rick Bayless and his crew are ready to dish it up, too. Photo: Eugene (Huge) Galdones/? 2013 Galdones Photography // All Rights Reserved
Lengua taco from Frontera. Photo: Eugene (Huge) Galdones/? 2013 Galdones Photography // All Rights Reserved
Mantuano and Sarah Grueneberg of Spiaggia, Jimmy Bannos Sr. of The Purple Pig and Takashi Yagihashi (Takashi/Slurping Turtle). Photo: Eugene (Huge) Galdones/? 2013 Galdones Photography // All Rights Reserved
Gnocchi from Spiaggia. Photo: Eugene (Huge) Galdones/? 2013 Galdones Photography // All Rights Reserved
Meatball slider from The Purple Pig. Photo: Eugene (Huge) Galdones/? 2013 Galdones Photography // All Rights Reserved
Oyster sliders from GT Fish & Oyster. Photo: Eugene (Huge) Galdones/? 2013 Galdones Photography // All Rights Reserved
Marcela Valladolid (Food Network’s ‘Mexican Made Easy’) and her take on a burrito. Photo: Eugene (Huge) Galdones/? 2013 Galdones Photography // All Rights Reserved
Nutella paninis by Hedy Goldsmith of Michael’s Genuine, Miami. Photo: Eugene (Huge) Galdones/? 2013 Galdones Photography // All Rights Reserved
Jose Garces talks to a fan. Photo: Eugene (Huge) Galdones/? 2013 Galdones Photography // All Rights Reserved
Mahi Mahi fish stick taco (Garces Group/Mercat a la Planxa). Photo: Eugene (Huge) Galdones/? 2013 Galdones Photography // All Rights Reserved
Israel Idonije with Sandwich King Jeff Mauro. Photo: Eugene (Huge) Galdones/? 2013 Galdones Photography // All Rights Reserved
Dessert from Takashi. Photo: Eugene (Huge) Galdones/? 2013 Galdones Photography // All Rights Reserved
Sarah Elizabeth Ippel, founder of the Academy for Global Citizenship. Photo: Eugene (Huge) Galdones/? 2013 Galdones Photography // All Rights Reserved
And some of the school’s students. Photo: Eugene (Huge) Galdones/? 2013 Galdones Photography // All Rights Reserved
The evening’s chefs. Photo: Eugene (Huge) Galdones/? 2013 Galdones Photography // All Rights Reserved
Slideshow: Star Chefs Serving Kid Food Raise Over $1 Million for Academy for