Laid-off chef plans Thanksgiving dinner of 150 turkeys from 1,000 Occupy Wall Street protestors



A Jobless chef who once cooked for presidents is planning a massive Thanksgiving spread for the protestors at Occupy Wall Street.



Eric Smith worked for the Sheraton Hotel before being laid off and has, himself, been protesting at Zuccatti Park in New York.



He helped prepare communal meals that fed hundreds of protestors and evangelized against genetically modified food and the use of pesticide.



Speaking out: After being laid off, chef Eric Smith joined the Occupy Wall Street protests, targeting the use of pesticides and genetically modified foods

But the gourmet chef who made his career serving fine food to rich guests is plotting one of his biggest meals yet.



The Thanksgiving feast for 1,000 protestors will include 150 turkeys, 400 pounds of potatoes, 300 pounds of stuffing and 250 pounds of cranberry sauce, Mr Smith told the New york Daily News.

The meal will have cider and water and organizers are looking for someone to donate 300 pies.



'We hope on Thanksgiving we can bring solace to all these people. Get together. Give everyone an inspirational boost,' he said.



'These people need a chance to rejoice. It’s been a rough two months.'

Mr Smith's culinary repertoire has been higher scale for the past six years, but he says he prefers preparing food for the protestors.



Occu-pie: The feast will include 400 pounds of potatoes, 300 pounds of stuffing and 250 pounds of cranberry sauce and will be served somewhere outside of Wall Street

'We did banquets for 5,000, we did parties for the past three presidents there. We did a lot of high-end stuff,' he told Russia Today of his days at the Sheraton.



The protestors who occupied Zuccatti Park since September organized services to help sustain the people who camped overnight in the park.



Mr Smith helped to prepare food for the die-hard at a kitchen in East New York in Brooklyn.



He said his Thanksgiving meal probably won't take place on Wall Street, and it might not even been in New York City.



Planners are looking at locations as far away as Woodstock, New York.