**RESCHEDULED TO OCTOBER 19** Join Dame Portia Belloc Lowndes at her new event space in Sawyer, Michigan for a harvest celebration lunch. Lunch will be a family-style meal. Guests are asked to bring a bottle or dessert to share. Dames are encouraged to make a weekend of it and enjoy the many activities that Southern Michigan has to offer, including apple picking, local beer/wine […]
Join Dame Catherine Lambrecht for a lunch and learn about podcasting! Learn all you need to know about the work that goes into creating a podcast, including equipment, editing software, storage options, and techniques to create great-sounding podcasts. All you need to bring is an idea for content! Lunch and Learn: How to Podcast with Dame Catherine Lambrecht Presented by Dame Catherine Lambrecht, Flavor Trends Expert Date: Wednesday, October 22 Time: 11:30am Cost: Free for members/$10 for non-members You will receive the link to the Zoom in your confirmation email.
Join Les Dames Chicago and Bookends & Beginnings for demonstration and book signing to celebrate Erika Kubick's newest book, Cheese Magic. Each ticket includes a copy of the book, a delicious cheese board from Erika's new book, wine, and non-alcoholic cocktails. Date: Thursday, October 23 Time: 6:00-8:00PM Location: Bookends & Beginnings (1620 Orrington Ave, Evanston, IL 60201) Price: $45 A portion of proceeds will benefit the Chicago chapter of Les Dames d'Escoffier, an organization of women in food, beverage and hospitality working to support the next generation of women in the industry. Thank you to Erika Kubick and Bookends & Beginnings!
We are all under a very stressful cloud right now. The world is a mess, our personal freedoms being threatened, daily life just seems difficult at every turn, and just ahead, the holidays are fast approaching. It’s a lot! So this season’s book, and accompanying dinner, was chosen to give us all a few moments of calm. Nigel Slater, English prize-winning author, journalist and TV presenter, has written beautiful tributes to small moments of delight he has observed in foods, gardens and the kitchen. If, like me, you turn to food and cooking to be the calm in the eye of the storm, you will love this book. Each tiny “chapter” celebrates one of those moments. Read them one at a time like a daily meditation, and revel in the way he helps you focus on the pleasure that abounds in our lives if only we take the time and a step back to appreciate it. “Nigel Slater has a magical capacity to find beauty in the smallest moments. A nourishing, sustaining book” says Olivia Laing, author of The Garden Against Time. I couldn’t have said it better. Our dinner and discussion will, in the same way, be focused on tiny pleasures and moments of joy. Take a deep breath and share them with your fellow Dames and readers. Registration is limited to 20 and will close at noon on Friday, October 31.
