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Weekend Pass for Culinary Insiders Weekend Extended!
08.14.09 – 5:33 pm | No Comment
Weekend Pass for Culinary Insiders Weekend Extended!

Dear Linda,
There is one more chance to purchase your VIP Weekend Pass to the event yet for only $250! This option won’t last forever. In fact, tickets to the individual events have opened but we’ve …

A Toast to Celebrate Julia’s 100th Birthday
08.13.09 – 12:23 pm | No Comment
A Toast to Celebrate Julia’s 100th Birthday

WHAT: Garden party, champagne toast, and birthday cake in honor of Julia Child’s 100th birthday. Come to network, share stories on how Julia inspired you and kick off a year of celebrating Julia!

WHERE: Debbie Sharpe’s Garden
1649 …

Scholarship Recipients – 2009
08.12.09 – 11:44 am | No Comment
Scholarship Recipients – 2009

We chose to divide the $2,500 scholarship funds earmarked for Washburne between two worthy and financially needy candidates—Arianne Kendrick and Tania Merlos Ruiz. Each will receive $1,250 from LDE Chicago Chapter.
Arianne Kendrick has no apparent …

McCormick Boys & Girls Club Journal
08.09.09 – 6:27 pm | No Comment
McCormick Boys & Girls Club Journal

Les Dames d’Escoffier Chicago Adopts a Green Tables Project
By Dames Sharon Olson and Mary Abbott Hess
The Green Tables Initiative is a Les Dames d’Escoffier sponsored program, which turns our attention to sustainability and a wholesome diet …

McCormick Boys & Girls Club – Field Trip
08.08.09 – 12:27 pm | No Comment
McCormick Boys & Girls Club – Field Trip

Dame Patty Erd brought spices for the children to savor and invited them to The Spice House for a demonstration.
 

 

 

 

 

Vegetable Fresca
08.06.09 – 6:34 pm | No Comment
Vegetable Fresca

by Les Dames d’Escoffier Chicago
edited by Carol Mighton Haddix
from Chicago Cooks
(Surrey Books, 2007)
Makes 10 servings
This was one of the first salads Convito Italiano carried. I invented it literally out of what was left in the …