Hoboken Chef Cooks Up Dishes For Charity

HOBOKEN, NJ — The following news release comes courtesy of Healing the Children of New Jersey. Send local news tips, photos and press releases to eric.kiefer@patch.com. Don’t forget to visit the Patch Hoboken Facebook page here.

Elliot Malsky, a 10-year resident of Hoboken and a former sous chef at Carbone's in New York City, a restaurant that pays homage to the essence of the great Italian-American restaurants of mid-20th century in New York, continues to lend his culinary expertise to raise money for Healing the Children New Jersey (HTCNJ), a non-profit organization that provides medical care and services to children around the world.

For three years, Malsky, who has vast experience from several top rated New York City restaurants, has raised over $12,000 for HTCNJ by donating his time and talent as a private chef for dinner parties hosted at the homes of lucky winners at the HTCNJ Annual Gala and Awards Banquet.

Malsky is known for preparing exquisite four course meals for people in the privacy of their own homes for charity and profit. Malsky donated his time and expertise as a chef to cook this past Saturday for one of the two winners of the HTCNJ's Dinner for Eight auctioned at its recent gala. These two prizes contributed $8,000 to HTCNJ's work.

Healing the Children of New Jersey (HTCNJ) was founded in 1981 and has helped more than 36,000 children in all of its programs, traveled to 16 countries, and welcomed children to the United States from 100 countries. Healing the Children is a national organization founded in Spokane, Washington in 1979 to provide donated medical care to needy children. Today, there are 13 chapters across the country, including the one in New Jersey.