Founder and Head Chef, Brigaid | Middletown, CT

Dan Giusti ‘04 is the founder and head chef of Brigaid, an organization that places professional chefs within institutional foodservice programs of all types and sizes to help provide quality meals and basic food education. Growing up in a food-loving Italian family inspired Dan to attend The Culinary Institute of America in New York where he graduated in 2004. He quickly rose through the culinary ranks, serving as executive chef of 1789 in Washington, D.C. and head chef of Noma in Copenhagen. After three years in the latter role, he returned to the United States to tackle another culinary challenge: school food. In 2016, he founded Brigaid, assembling a team of professional chefs who were eager to apply their culinary expertise to help school foodservice programs achieve their goals. Today, Brigaid’s work has expanded to senior centers and a state prison system. It remains guided by Dan’s belief that everyone deserves nourishing food, cooked with care and passion. @brigaid  

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