{"id":245580,"date":"2025-12-18T07:28:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T11:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=245580"},"modified":"2025-12-22T06:31:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T10:31:05","slug":"chef-maria-marte-is-cooking-for-the-la-merced-childrens-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/12\/18\/chef-maria-marte-is-cooking-for-the-la-merced-childrens-benefit\/","title":{"rendered":"Chef Maria Marte is cooking for the La Merced children\u2019s benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Chef-Maria-Marte-Listin-Diario-1024x505.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-245658\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Chef-Maria-Marte-Listin-Diario-1024x505.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Chef-Maria-Marte-Listin-Diario-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Chef-Maria-Marte-Listin-Diario-768x379.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Chef-Maria-Marte-Listin-Diario-1536x758.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Chef-Maria-Marte-Listin-Diario.png 1860w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Two Michelin star Chef Maria Marte will be cooking at the Hotel Embajador as part of a Three Kings Day benefit for Dominican children and Fundacion La Merced in northern Santo Domingo. The several course dinner is scheduled for 5 January 2026 from 6:30 to 9pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Foundation works to eradicate child labor and maintains a community of 600 children and adolescents who receive classes, health and nutrition services. Tickets to contribute to the cause and enjoy a memorable dinner are RD$12,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic, Maria Marte migrated to Spain in 2003, and found work as a cleaning woman at El Club Allard. She would work her way up to Head Chef.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is the only woman in Spain and Latin America to achieve two Michelin stars while leading a kitchen at El Club Allard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bookings are available at:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSc_y2ukR8abcJVXbH7KYwfPpu9NO0KJW1UvzVoyM5nguJgoig\/viewform\">Bookings <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about Fundacion La Merced<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FundLaMerced\/\">Fundacion La Merced <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fundacionlamerced.org\/\">Fundacion La Merced <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fundlamerced\/?hl=en\">Fundacion La Merced <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FundLaMerced\/\">Fundacion La Merced <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 December 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Michelin star Chef Maria Marte will be cooking at the Hotel Embajador as part of a Three Kings Day benefit for Dominican children and Fundacion La Merced in northern Santo Domingo. The several course dinner is scheduled for 5 January 2026 from 6:30 to 9pm. The Foundation works to eradicate child labor and maintains &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/12\/18\/chef-maria-marte-is-cooking-for-the-la-merced-childrens-benefit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245580"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245659,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245580\/revisions\/245659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}