Sammy’s Food + Wine hosted a Pizza Making Challenge on National Pizza Day (February 9, 2022), with a handful of local celebrities and media personalities. FOX5 San Diego’s Heather Lake’s “Hot Honey” pizza won and has now been added to the spring menu at all seven San Diego locations. A $5,000 donation was also made to her charity of choice, which was The Monarch School, a 501 (c)3 school that nurtures resilience in unhoused youth and their families.
Lake’s “Hot Honey” pizza ($18) consists of all-natural pepperoni, prosciutto, bell peppers, red onions, house-made tomato sauce, and spicy honey.
Nearly 300 students attend Monarch School each day and are provided a holistic education designed to meet their academic, social, emotional, and life skill needs. Monarch School is a trauma-informed and strength-based community where students can persevere through the trauma of homelessness that has affected them and their success in education. Lake specifically hopes the money will go towards the school’s new Nutrition Lab.
On March 1, Alfred “Alfie” Szeprethy presented The Monarch School with the donation, alongside Lake; the school also received an after-school pizza party, provided by Sammy’s.
The pizza contest was judged by Pam Kragen, dining and features reporter for The San Diego Union-Tribune, Mia Stefanko, co-publisher of Ranch & Coast Magazine, and Sami Ladeki, founder and creator of Sammy’s.
Additional pizza making participants included Jenny Milkowski of KUSI-TV, Eric Kahnert of CBS8 San Diego, Blas Galindo of Televisa, Rick Morton from Z90, and Geoff Alan known to the public as the “Cabana Boy” from Channel 933.
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