TOPSHOT Children play in Ritsona refugee camp some 80 km north of Athens on December 21 2016 Before braving a 'trip of death' to escape Syria Talal...
{"Image ImageDescription": "TOPSHOT - Children play in Ritsona refugee camp, some 80 km north of Athens on December 21, 2016.   \nBefore braving a 'trip of death' to escape Syria, Talal Rankoussi was a chef in a Damascus restaurant considered the largest in the world.Bawabet Al Dimashq -- Damascus Gate -- still holds that distinction in the Guinness Book of Records as it can seat over 6,000 people.So when 41-year-old Talal was asked by a US benefactor to spice up the meals for several hundred fellow Syrians at the Ritsona camp near Athens, the two-decade culinary veteran did not hesitate.  / AFP PHOTO / LOUISA GOULIAMAKI        (Photo credit should read LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP via Getty Images)"}