Chef Kent Rathbun & Epicurious.com Invite You to Wine. Dine. Donate.Abacus Hosts Exclusive Dinner to Benefit America’s Second HarvestEdited by Madelyn Miller, the TravelLady
The brainchild of Tanya Steel, editor-in-chief of Epicurious.com, Wine. Dine. Donate. is designed with both an online and an offline component, providing multiple ways to donate money to hungry children in America through America’s Second Harvest, the nation’s largest charitable hunger-relief organization. Dallas-area residents can participate in the offline component by joining Steel at Chef Rathbun’s intimate, exclusive dinner featuring his eclectic cuisine created by blending Mediterranean, Cajun/Creole, American, Southwestern, and Pacific Rim influences into unique dishes. Three other dinners across the country will be held in San Francisco (Michael Mina), Boston (Via Matta) and Chicago (Custom House).
In addition to attending Abacus’ Wine. Dine. Donate. dinner, you can also create a simple and delicious menu of Chef Rathbun’s recipes throughout the month of November. Visitors to Epicurious.com can access the online component of this initiative through the “Throw A Party” kit, which includes a menu of recipes (with wines to match), plus the tools for how to host without a hitch, a shopping link to order some of the foods and wines on the menu, and a user forum to share party pictures and stories with other Epicurious.com visitors. Each month, Epicurious.com editors will feature the home cook who raises the most money (as detailed in the forum) on the site. “One thing that all Epicurious.com visitors as well as myself value is the importance of good, wholesome food–-especially for the 14 million children who, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, live in households that are ‘food insecure,’” says Steel, who was named editor of Epicurious.com after 10 years as New York editor for Bon Appetit. Steel became inspired to raise awareness and funds for America’s food-deprived children in particular after watching a television broadcast. It focused on the growing numbers of children in America who rely on programs like Second Harvest’s Backpack Program that send needy children home with a backpack filled with food for the weekend when they otherwise might have nothing. Reflecting on her own good fortune and that of her identical twin sons, she determined to make a difference by creating Wine. Dine. Donate. For more information on Wine. Dine. Donate., to purchase tickets to the Chef Rathbun’s dinner on November 12, and to access a “Throw A Party” kit complete with menus and tools, or to donate directly to America’s Second Harvest, visit www.epicurious.com. Abacus is located at 4511 McKinney Avenue, Dallas, TX. For reservations or more information, call (214) 559-3111 or go to www.abacus-restaurant.com |
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How can attending a lavish dinner at one of Dallas’s top restaurants help feed America’s hungry children? Thanks to the editors at Epicurious.com and Chef Kent Rathbun, it’s as easy as attending Abacus’ Wine. Dine. Donate. dinner on Sunday, November 12, 2006. Launched by Epicurious.com, the premier web site for people who love to eat, the Wine. Dine. Donate. initiative invites food lovers to enjoy a great meal, great company and support a great cause – America’s Second Harvest’s programs to feed the nation’s children.
The dinner begins at 6:15 p.m. with a cocktail reception, followed by a multi-course dinner; tickets are $125 per person (all-inclusive). Proceeds from each ticket to each dinner will go to America’s Second Harvest, which will use the funds to feed 9 million hungry children and families throughout the country through food banks and its backpack program, which currently is used by 25,000 kids each week.