Relief efforts for the devastation caused by Tropical Storm and Hurricane Harvey have brought out plenty of celebrities from Texas and big sports/Hollywood/entertainment names too – all to raise funds for disaster recovery.

But there are big foodie names too joining in the effort.

Chef John Besh, the James Beard Award-winning chef from New Orleans, is traveling to Houston to begin preparing meals today (Sept. 1) for first responders at NRG Stadium. The cookbook author and cooking show host, who is opening a restaurant in Houston in the fall, coordinated efforts with Mayor Sylvester Turner to prepared meals today. After food service at NRG Besh and his team will then go where there is greater need, according to a spokesperson for the Besh Restaurant Group.

Besh's team includes Drake Leonards, the chef/partner of the upcoming Eunice restaurant in Houston, and Houstonian Alba Huerta, owner of Julep bar. Besh is planning on serving red beans and rice, jambalaya, brisket and pasta Bolognese.

Red beans and rice, an iconic New Orleans meal, was the first food Besh and fellow chef friends cooked for the hungry immediately following Hurricane Katrina.

Besh isn't the only culinary superstar lending a hand in Houston. Spanish-American chef Jose Andres, the celebrity gastronome from Washington, DC, arrived in Houston on Tuesday to begin coordinating hunger relief efforts with the American Red Cross. Andres established a non-profit organization, World Central Kitchen, after visiting Haiti after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake. World Central Kitchen put out a call for volunteers within the chef community and received an overwhelming response (it no longer needs additional chefs according to the website).

"If I can feed one person, I'm happy," Andres told the Washington Post while driving to Houston.