If you like consuming a week’s worth of good food and wine in one evening, under one roof, for one price, I have one heck of a deal for you.
And if you’re glad that doing so helps a charitable cause, we’re in business.
But you better hurry, because the Les Dames d’Escoffier Dallas Chapter‘s annual Raiser Grazer is this Sunday, February 28.
Hosted at the Fashion Industry Gallery, the Dallas event benefits deserving Texas women who are pursuing culinary educations.
“Women Stars of Wine & Food” is this year’s Grazer theme, showcasing women who have helped shaped the wine and culinary landscape. Stars will include our own Texas wine luminaries, such as Susan Auler (Fall Creek Vineyards), Gina Puente-Brancato (La Buena Vida Vineyards and La Bodega Wineries), and Caris Turpen (Lightcatcher Winery), along with California’s Joy Sterling (Iron Horse Vineyards), Dolores Cakebread (Cakebread Cellars), Janet Trefethen (Trefethen Family Vineyards), Robin Lail (Lail Vineyards), Amelia Ceja (Ceja Vineyards) and Kathryn Hall (Hall Wines).
Food will be prepared by more than 20 female chefs and culinary professionals, including Sharon Hage of York Street, Dunia Borga of La Duni, and Paula Lambert of the Mozzarella Company, from the Dallas side of the area. Offering dishes from the western reaches will be Wendy Taggart of Burgundy Pasture Beef in Grandview; Lisa Perini of Perini Ranch Steakhouse in Buffalo Gap; and yours truly.
There’s also an auction during the event (cooking classes, trips, cookbooks, dinners and more are offered), and WFAA-TV news anchor Gloria Campos will emcee the festivities.
It’s a fun evening, which lasts from 6 until 9 p.m., and you can help add to the $1 million the Dames have raised for women’s culinary scholarships over the past quarter-century.
Raiser Grazer tickets are $45 until Friday and $50 thereafter and at the door. Check out details at the Les Dames Dallas website. (Find the FIG on North Akard in downtown Dallas, between Ross and Munger.)
