LOUISVILLE, KY (February 24, 2015) – Imagine working side-by-side with a top organic restaurateur in Washington, D.C., helping with the grape harvest for the oldest continuously operating, family-owned winery in California, learning food photography and recipe development at a New York magazine, or experiencing the tropical harvest on a Hawaii farm. These opportunities and others are available to women working in the food, beverage and hospitality industries through the 2015 Les Dames d’Escoffier International Legacy Awards.
Established in 2009, each LDEI Legacy Award offers a one-week workplace experience to non-Dame women in the US, UK and Canada. Award recipients will work alongside some of the culinary and hospitality industry’s top women professionals, all members of Les Dames d’Escoffier (LDEI), an international organization of women leaders in food, beverage and hospitality whose mission is education and philanthropy.
Applications are available online at ldei.org. Deadline to apply is April 27, 2015.
Six awards will be offered in four categories: culinary; food/wine journalism; wine; and farm-to-table. The professional experience programs include:
• Restaurant/Organic- Restaurant Nora, Washington D.C., owner, Dame Nora Pouillon
• Food/Wine Journalism – “Good Housekeeping” magazine, New York City, Dames Susan Westmoreland and Sharon Franke
• Wine – Wente Family Estates in Livermore, CA., Dames Carolyn Wente and Amy Hoopes
• Wine – Ste. Michelle Wine Estates in Woodinville, WA., Dame Kari Leitch
• Farm-to-Table – Melissa’s World Variety Produce Inc., Los Angeles, CA, Dame Nancy Eisman
• Farm-to-Table – Wailea Agricultural Group, Big Island of Hawaii, Dame Lesley Hill
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