MADISON, Wis (SPECTRUM NEWS) --A top chef in Madison making something warm and comforting in response to the COVID-19 crisis. 

Liliana's Chef Dave Heide says until Disney re-opens, he will sell cups of homemade soup for a suggested $5 dollars each.  Proceeds benefit Madison area homeless shelters, but if you can’t pay— soup’s on the house. He knows so many families are hurting and need the nutrition.

’All the foods that are really needed for our most at-risk people, a lot of people have gone and hoarded it,  so especially in some of our poorest communities right now, they don’t have access to rice or beans or soup, or basic nutrition things,  because they have all been kind of taken,"Chef Heide said.

"Let’s get something that is warm and nutritious, with fat and warmth,  has vegetables and love and get it out to anyone who could use it," he said about his effort.

’This whole soup has 6 ingredients and in tastes absolutely phenomenal made with love and you want to pass it on to someone else," the top chef said about the first of many made from scratch soups in his line-up. 

In the last few days, Chef Heide has raised hundreds of dollars thanks to the community's generosity.  And if you’d like to try the soup or even pay it forward with a soup donation,  learn more by clicking here.