International AIDS fund raiser comes to Greater Boston in April

On Thursday, April 29, 2010, Cambridge Cares About AIDS is bringing Dining Out For Life to Greater Boston for the first time. Dine out at a participating restaurant, and 25% of your bill will be donated to help CCA provide HIV/AIDS care and prevention services to more than 3,000 people living throughout the Greater Boston area.

Join us! Learn more about Dining Out For Life Boston.

Restaurant owners, click here to see what Dining Out For Life can do for you.

Real estate, finance, and other professionals, click here if you want to co-brand with Dining Out For Life to promote your business.

We are looking for volunteers to host a restaurant or captain a table! Contact Kathy Power at kpower@ccaa.org or 617-599-0213.

This international fundraiser was established in 1991 and is now celebrated in 55 cities across the US and Canada. Last year, Dining Out For Life raised more than $3 million through the generous participation of volunteers, corporate sponsors and restaurants, as more than 2,800 restaurants  donated a portion of their proceeds from this one special night of dining to local AIDS service organizations. 

Cambridge Cares About AIDS
17 Sellers Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
617.661.3040

Charlie Palmer’s fifth Annual Pigs & Pinot weekend will be held at the award-winning Hotel Healdsburg. You may have seen a preview of Pigs & Pinot in this season’s Top Chef. Now’s your chance to take part in the real action. Charlie is joined by an all-star cast for this spectacular event:

• Tyler Florence (Cookbook Author, Food Network)
• Kevin Gillespie (Woodfire Grill & Top Chef finalist)
• Bryan Voltaggio (Volt restaurant & Top Chef finalist)
• Roland Passot (La Folie restaurant)
• Dustin Valette (Dry Creek Kitchen Chef de Cuisine)

Taste of Pigs & Pinot
Friday evening’s event kickoff is the lively Taste of Pigs & Pinot where guests sample over 50 highly-acclaimed Pinot Noir wines competing in the Pinot Cup competition, both from Sonoma County and around the world. Tastings are served alongside a variety of pork dishes, including homemade sausages, charcuterie, grilled pork, pates and other special creations from Chef Palmer and Dry Creek Kitchen Chef de Cuisine Dustin Valette, guest chefs, and local Healdsburg restaurants including: Cyrus, Zin, Manzanita and many others. The winner and runner up of the Pinot Cup will be revealed during Taste.

Pigs & Pinot is a charity weekend that benefits Share Our Strength and local Healdsburg education, including: The Healdsburg Education Foundation, St. John School, and The Healdsburg School.

The leading national organization working to end childhood hunger in America. Share Our Strength® weaves together a net of community groups, activists and food programs to catch every at-risk child and make sure no kid in America grows up hungry. Visit Strength.org and learn more about their goal of ending childhood hunger in America by 2015.

Nashville, TN  – LocalEats, a leading iPhone and BlackBerry Storm dining application and creator of popular website WhereTheLocalsEat.com, announced yesterday that it has released its LocalEats app for the Android platform and that it is donating 100% of all its mobile app revenue, until March 1, to the American Red Cross* Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund.

“Some other iPhone app developers have decided to donate to the effort in Haiti, as well,” says company founder Bill King, “and we’re just proud to be part of a mobile software and technology community that can do something like this. The information and the links that have been all over social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook encouraging people to support the relief efforts and the text messaging services that automatically send donations to wonderful agencies have put a real spotlight on the ability of these new technologies to promote help, relief and awareness during times of crisis. And we are happy to do what we can — across all three of our major mobile platforms — to help out in some way, amounting to what we hope will be a sizable contribution to the Red Cross fund for Haiti relief.”

LocalEats will be donating 100% of app revenues to the Red Cross through the end of January and through February. LocalEats’ developers hope that the app’s presence on multiple mobile platforms – including the now available Android version – will allow them to reach more smartphone users and therefore collect more donations. The already popular LocalEats costs 99 cents to download on the Android and iPhone and $2.99 on the BlackBerry Storm.

About Magellan Press, Inc.

Magellan Press, Inc., is a Brentwood, Tennessee, independent book publishing company founded in 1991. The company’s Where the Locals Eat book series and LocalEats™ iPhone, BlackBerry Storm and now Android applications are leading sources for regional dining information nationwide. Where the Locals Eat and LocalEats™ feature the best 100 restaurants in the Top U.S. cities, plus many other local favorites in cities across the country.

In Canada: Toronto, and coming soon for the 2010 Winter Olympics, Vancouver.

For more information visit www.WhereTheLocalsEat.com.

 *The American Red Cross name and emblem are used with its permission, which in no way constitutes an endorsement, express or implied, of any product, service, company, opinion or political position. For more information about the American Red Cross, please visit www.redcross.org

 

Nashville, TN  – LocalEats, a leading iPhone and BlackBerry Storm dining application and creator of popular website WhereTheLocalsEat.com, announced yesterday that it has released its LocalEats app for the Android platform and that it is donating 100% of all its mobile app revenue, until March 1, to the American Red Cross* Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund.

“Some other iPhone app developers have decided to donate to the effort in Haiti, as well,” says company founder Bill King, “and we’re just proud to be part of a mobile software and technology community that can do something like this. The information and the links that have been all over social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook encouraging people to support the relief efforts and the text messaging services that automatically send donations to wonderful agencies have put a real spotlight on the ability of these new technologies to promote help, relief and awareness during times of crisis. And we are happy to do what we can — across all three of our major mobile platforms — to help out in some way, amounting to what we hope will be a sizable contribution to the Red Cross fund for Haiti relief.”

LocalEats will be donating 100% of app revenues to the Red Cross through the end of January and through February. LocalEats’ developers hope that the app’s presence on multiple mobile platforms – including the now available Android version – will allow them to reach more smartphone users and therefore collect more donations. The already popular LocalEats costs 99 cents to download on the Android and iPhone and $2.99 on the BlackBerry Storm.

About Magellan Press, Inc.

Magellan Press, Inc., is a Brentwood, Tennessee, independent book publishing company founded in 1991. The company’s Where the Locals Eat book series and LocalEats™ iPhone, BlackBerry Storm and now Android applications are leading sources for regional dining information nationwide. Where the Locals Eat and LocalEats™ feature the best 100 restaurants in the Top U.S. cities, plus many other local favorites in cities across the country.

In Canada: Toronto, and coming soon for the 2010 Winter Olympics, Vancouver.

For more information visit www.WhereTheLocalsEat.com.

*The American Red Cross name and emblem are used with its permission, which in no way constitutes an endorsement, express or implied, of any product, service, company, opinion or political position. For more information about the American Red Cross, please visit www.redcross.org.

 

WORLD FESTIVAL 2010 & ART SMITH'S 50th BIRTHDAY!

True to his selfless spirit, Common Threads founder Art Smith will share his 50th birthday celebration with Common Threads’ World Festival 2010 on Monday, March 1, at Soldier Field. For the past four years, Common Threads’ World Festival has brought together world-renowned chefs and food-lovers to sample delicacies prepared by culinary masters and to participate in exciting auctions. This multicultural grazing event has always been the bread and butter for the organization and has featured the talents of celebrity chefs, who have mingled and served tasty specialties to sold-out crowds of more than 600 guests.

This year, participating chefs include: Jimmy Bannos, Jr., The Purple Pig; Jimmy Bannos, Sr., Heaven on Seven; Rick Bayless, Frontera Grill/Topolobampo; John Besh, Restaurant August; Graham Elliot Bowles, Graham Elliot; David Burke & Rick Gresh, David Burke’s Primehouse; Domenica Catelli, Be Momalicious; Maneet Chauhan, Vermillion; Christophe David & Frederic Moreau, NoMi; Radhika Desai, Top Chef Season 5; Tyler Florence, Food Network; Ben Ford, Ford’s Filling Station; Gale Gand, TRU; Troy Graves, Eve; Koren Grieveson, Avec; Sarah Grueneberg, Spiaggia; Carla Hall, Top Chef Season 5; Jason Hammel & Lea Tshields, Lula Café; Roger Herring, Socca; Kevin Hickey, Four Seasons; Ingrid Hoffmann, Food Network; Brian Houston, The Publican; Stephanie Izard, The Drunken Goat; Gavin Kaysen, Café Boulud; Bill Kim, Urban Belly; Peter Klein, Seedlings Farm; Josh Kulp & Christine Cikowski, Sunday Dinner Chicago; Jamie Laurita, Celebrity Food & Mood Guru; Ali & Rob Levitt, Mado; Sarah Levy, Sarah’s Pastries & Candies Inc.; Barbara Lynch, No. 9 Park; Steve McDonough & Dan Smith, Hearty; Jason McLeod, Balsan at The Elysian Hotel; Mark Mendez, Carnivale; Carrie Nahabedian, NAHA; Martial Noguier & Suzanne Imaz, Sofitel Chicago; Chris Nugent, Les Nomades; Chris Pandel, The Bristol; Ryan Poli, Perennial; Tony Priolo, Piccolo Sogno; Bill Reynolds, Sikia; Toni Roberts, C-House; Mario Santiago, May Street Café; Jackie Shen, Red Light; Kristine Subido, Wave Restaurant; Giuseppe Tentori, BOKA; Melissa Trimmer, Nightwood; Rey Villalobos, TABLE fifty-two; Paul Virant, Vie; Carol Wallack, Sola; Daven Wardynski, 676 Restaurant; Carol Watson, Milk & Honey Café; Shelley Young, The Chopping Block; Andrew Zimmerman, Sepia; Randy Zweiban, Province.

The VIP treatment includes access to Art Smith’s swanky Southern-style lounge, a pre-event cocktail reception (5-6 p.m.) and an invitation to the exclusive chef after-party at The James Chicago (9-10 p.m.)!

• Event Date: 3/1/2010
• Event Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
• Event
  Location: Soldier Field
  1410 S Museum Campus Dr # 2
  Chicago, IL
  60605-2902
• Event Price: General Admission : $250.00
  VIP Admission : $500.00

Find out more information on Event Sponsorship.

 

8th Annual Oyster Roast
Friday, November 20th 7 p.m.
Garden Club of Jacksonville

Support Riverkeeper and also enjoy one of the best parties of the year! Outstanding food, music, fellowship, and of course, lots of oysters.
Tickets: $125 each, $75 each if 35 years of age or younger.

The Empty Bowls Luncheon demonstrates community support for those who are coping with hunger in North Florida. Local celebrities (including media personalities) act as servers for the event. In addition to helping fight hunger, the luncheon presents a diverse program for all. Area students and senior citizen groups have created original, handcrafted ceramic bowls for every guest. Luncheon attendees are able to select just the right bowl to take home.

Local potters and ceramic artists have also donated their time and talents to create unique bowls. In addition, the Empty Bowls Luncheon includes celebrity signed bowls. Recognized personalities from the national and international stage have lent their names to the cause.

The annual Empty Bowls Luncheon has come to symbolize the beginning of Thanksgiving and the holiday season. We hope you join us for a memorable afternoon and help us fill the empty bowls in our community. All proceeds will benefit the Second Harvest Food Bank.

Second Harvest North Florida has served those in need since 1979. In Jacksonville, the majority of the people served by the Food Bank are children and senior citizens. The common misconception is that hunger is experienced only by the homeless; however, this population comprises less than 10 percent of the people helped by the Food Bank.

In an effort to meet growing needs in our community, special events like Empty Bowls help to promote hunger awareness, raise much-needed funds, and show support for one of the nation’s most solvable social issues – food insecurity.

Tickets to the event are $25, with various sponsorship levels also available.

Celebrity Chef Tour Brings Bravo's Top Chef  Season Five Trio to Cook at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel

Who:  Celebrity Chef Tour benefitting the James Beard Foundation

What: Multi-course dinner featuring Bravo's Top Chef Contestants Carla Hall, Fabio Viviani and CJ Jacobson

When: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 7pm

Where: Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, 1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C., 20036

Cost: $170; to RSVP call  720-201-1853 or email jeff@celebritycheftour.com

Details: The Celebrity Chef Tour comes to D.C. for what promises to be a great night of food and drink. Join popular Top Chef contestants Carla Hall, Fabio Viviani and CJ
Jacobson as they collaborate and prepare their favorite seasonal dishes. Chefs will be available for a post dinner "talk back" to answer questions about the meal and about their current projects.

About the Celebrity Chef Tour benefiting the James Beard Foundation:

Since its inception in 2004, the Celebrity Chef Tour benefiting the James Beard Foundation has become a favorite event for both the chefs to participate in and guests to attend. The Celebrity Chef Tour brings James Beard Foundation Award winners and other celebrity chefs to private clubs, resorts, and other exclusive venues around the country for spectacular dining events. The tour was created to benefit the James Beard Foundation and to promote the culinary arts across America.

About the James Beard House and the James Beard Foundation:

James Beard is widely recognized as the father of American culinary arts. Throughout his life, he pursued and advocated the highest standards, and served as a mentor to emerging talents. The James Beard House is where Beard lived, taught, and welcomed friends and colleagues who shared his love for food. Shortly after he passed away, a group of friends sparked a drive to save his home and create a living memorial and a center for the culinary community. It has become what Founding President Peter Kump envisioned it could be, “a culinary place to see and taste the work of this country’s most talented chef’s, wine makers, cookbook authors, and teachers.” The James Beard House’s sister non-profit organization, the James Beard Foundation, whose mission is to “celebrate, preserve and nurture America’s culinary heritage and diversity in order to elevate the appreciation of our culinary excellence,” furthers Mr. Kump’s vision by providing scholarships and volunteer opportunities for aspiring culinary professionals, educating today’s youth on the importance of good food and essential nutrition.
 
For more information: http://www.jamesbeard.org
 

The 3rd Annual Pittsburgh Whiskey and Fine Spirits Festival is back bringing you the world’s best spirits, great food, fun and entertainment.

Friday the 13th has never been as lucky! You get a chance to gather with all your friends and take in a dose of Pittsburgh’s own stimulus package. No better place to get your weekend started than the home of the reigning Super Bowl Champs!

On Friday evening, Heinz Field becomes the site of Pittsburgh’s hottest happy hour with a dazzling array of whiskeys, vodkas, gins, rums and tequilas from around the globe. Cocktail competitions, silent auctions, and special lounges will be set up for your enjoyment. Like Jim Beam? You'll love this. Meet his great-grandson and Master Distiller Fred Noe. He'll tell you how it's done!

A beautiful view of the city, some of the finest spirits and foods available, cool tunes -what better way to spend your Friday evening?

Tickets are $85 in advance and $95 at the door. Purchase now and the first round is on us. We’ll give you a fifth… not a bottle but 1/5 off the price if you purchase now. That’s $70 for those of us that slept during math class. Click here to purchase your tickets and join the celebration. Or call: 412.281.2681.

Friday, November 13, 2009
6:30-9:30pm
Heinz Field, West Club Lounge

Proceeds benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Join us for an extraordinary evening as over 20 of New York’s most renowned chefs present tastings of Greenmarket-inspired signature dishes.

Celebrate harvest season with chefs, farmers and the locavore community and bid on fabulous silent auction prizes. Doing good has never tasted better!

Wednesday October 28th 2009
Studio 450
450 West 31st. Street

Tickets
Guest $150 ($175 at the door)
7:00pm-10:00pm
Enjoy Greenmarket-inspired fare and cocktails presented by NYC's finest chefs, celebrate harvest season with farmers, chefs, and the locavore community, and bid on fabulous silent auction prizes.

VIP Private Tasting $300
6:00pm-10:00pm
Arrive at 6:00 pm for a first taste and the opportunity to meet and mingle with chefs and special guests.

Tickets available at

or to purchase will-call tickets by check contact taste@greenmarket.cc  212-788-7476.

Participating chefs include:

Michael Anthony of Gramercy Tavern,
Dan Barber of Blue Hill & Blue Hill at Stone Barns,
April Bloomfield of The Spotted Pig,
Jean Francois Bruel of Daniel,
Marco Canora of Hearth, Insieme & Terroir,
Mary Cleaver of The Green Table & The Cleaver Company,
Tom Colicchio of Craft & Craftbar, 
Alex Guarnaschelli of Butter,
Kurt Gutenbrunner of Wallse, Cafe Sabarsky & Blaue Gans,
Peter Hoffman of Savoy & Back Forty,
Patti Jackson of I Trulli,
Gabriel Kreuther of The Modern,
Bret Macris of Rose Water
Marc Meyer of Cookshop, Five Points & Hundred Acres,
Marco A. Moreira of Tocqueville,
Marcus Samuelsson of Aquavit,
Aaron Sanchez of Centrico & Paladar,
Bill Telepan of Telepan,
David Waltuck of Chanterelle and
Galen Zamarra of Mas(farmhouse).

Greenmarket-inspired cocktails by

James Meehan of PDT and
Julie Reiner of Flatiron Lounge & Clover Club

 

New Beginning Center is launching a new fundraiser unlike any other…Dine In to End Domestic Violence™.  It’s a really simple, really easy way to support your community in putting an end to domestic violence.  In partnership with Central Market, Channel 8 and BBVA Compass, a fantastic meal for two prepared by Central Market will be delivered to your home or office October 6.  We need your help to create a daisy chain for awareness for Dine In to End Domestic Violence™, so we ask that you forward this event to any and all on your contact list.

Go to www.newbeginningcenter.org  to place your order by October 2. We’ve made it really simple and really easy to give back, and the more exposure we have for this truly unique fundraiser, the more support we can provide for women and children who are victims of domestic violence.