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The first annual Marianne Ali Brunch that LDE-DC will sponsor takes place for the 111th graduating class at 10:00 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. on Friday, April 6 at DC Central Kitchen, 425 2nd Street, NW. We should plan on preparing at least 12 different dishes for 35 people for brunch. Click here for the link to SignUpGenius. There is space to indicate any special serving equipment needs. The kitchen will provide all beverages, plates and utensils and serving pieces and equipment. Please deliver food by 9:30 a.m. which is also when street parking near the kitchen becomes available. Dames can leave the food at the DCCK entrance (the alley loading dock), and then leave to find a parking spot. The Kitchen will try to save a few spaces in the lot, but we shouldn't count on it.
The actual graduation is scheduled for 2 o'clock that afternoon in the Navy Memorial auditorium at 701 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC. We sincerely hope you can attend both events.
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The nomination period for LDE-DC chapter officers and directors for 2018-19 is now open until Monday, April 11. You can find full descriptions of these jobs and the nomination form at www.lesdamesdc.org in the Member Resources Section and under the LDE-DE Board Minutes/Election Documents tab. The login password is ldedc2014, all lower case.
Please nominate Dames who possess leadership qualities to represent our membership and who will work to achieve our chapter's goals in the coming year. Remember, you may nominate any chapter member in good standing or you may nominate yourself. Please consider who will best serve the organization and submit your nomination(s) to committee chair Katherine Newell Smith at kns4pr@erols.com. Please be sure that the Dame you nominate agrees to participate as an active member of the board. Each Officer is elected for a one (1) year term and is eligible for re-election to a second consecutive term. Exception is the treasurer who may serve total of four (4) consecutive terms. Each term period follows the fiscal year. Directors are elected for two years. After two (2) consecutive terms, an Officer is ineligible for reelection to the same office for a period of one (1) year, but she may be nominated and elected to a different position as either an Officer or Director. No member may serve on the board, as an officer or director, for more than seven (7) consecutive years. The LDE-DC BOD positions are: president, first vice president (membership), second vice president (education and community outreach), second vice president (development), recording secretary, communications (corresponding) secretary and finance. Database and web-savvy individuals are needed for the communications secretary and finance positions. In addition, two (2) director positions are open. 2018-19 Board Nominating Committee Chair: Katherine Newell Smith. Committee members: Eileen Dykes, Drew Faulkner, Sara Ducey, Golnaz Feiz The grant application for 2018 is now online at http://www.lesdamesdc.org/grants.html. The deadline for entry is Saturday, March 31st, and we will notify awardees by April 25th.
We look forward to receiving applications from local organizations that match our chapter's mission to support women to succeed in the food, fine beverage, hospitality, and related industries. Tax-exempt charitable or educational organizations in region may apply. Nominations due March 5. Completed application due no later than March 15.
Please consider nominating qualified colleagues and acquaintances who will bring their enthusiasm, talent, and ideas as active members to our Les Dames d 'Escoffier DC chapter. Requirements for membership include, but are not limited to, a minimum of FIVE years as a distinguished professional in the food, beverage or hospitality industry. If you have a candidate you would like to nominate, please send her name and email address to Julia Rutland at juliarutland@me.com by March 5, 2018. The new online, fillable application is available on the public section of the LDEI-DC Chapter website and an invite with links will be sent to nominee. Those completed applications are due March 15. Click here for 2018 LDEI Application Click here to use Eventbrite to pay for the New Member Application Fee ($25) The first annual Marianne Ali Brunch that LDE-DC will sponsor takes place for the 111th graduating class at 10:00 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. on Friday, April 6 at DC Central Kitchen, 425 2nd Street, NW. We should plan on preparing at least 12 different dishes for 35 people for brunch. We will send out a link for signupgenius later this week to make it easier to coordinate your participation. There will be a space on the form for you to indicate any special serving equipment needs. The kitchen will provide all beverages, plates and utensils and serving pieces and equipment. Please deliver food by 9:30 a.m. which is also when street parking near the kitchen becomes available. Dames can leave the food at the DCCK entrance (the alley loading dock), and then leave to find a parking spot. DCCK will try to save a few spaces in the lot, but we shouldn't count on it.
The actual graduation is scheduled for 2 o'clock that afternoon in the Navy Memorial auditorium at 701 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC. We sincerely hope you can attend both events. CALL FOR NEW MEMBERS! We have extended the nomination due date to March 5
Please consider nominating qualified colleagues and acquaintances who will bring their enthusiasm, talent, and ideas as active members to our Les Dames d 'Escoffier DC chapter. Requirements for membership include, but are not limited to, a minimum of FIVE years as a distinguished professional in the food, beverage or hospitality industry. If you have a candidate you would like to nominate, please send her name and email address to Julia Rutland at juliarutland@me.com by March 5, 2018. The new online, fillable application is available on the public section of the LDEI-DC Chapter website and an invite with links will be sent to nominee. Click here for 2018 LDEI Application Click here to use Eventbrite to pay for the New Member Application Fee ($25) The Les Dames d'Escoffier DC book club met in February at the home of Susan Barocas with special guest Abbie Rosner to discuss her book, Breaking Bread in the Galilee: A Journey into the Promised Land. This fascinating book provided recipes for a delicious dinner and, with Abby's participation, an especially stimulating and insightful conversation about foraging and other ancient foodways in the modern world, food as a bridge to one's own culture and to relationships with others, and baal agriculture that relies solely on climate and rain in seasonal cycles.  CALL FOR NEW MEMBERS! NOMINATIONS DUE FEB. 2, 2018
The 2018 New Member Drive opens a bit early to coordinate with our Woman In Gastronomy symposium in March. Please consider nominating qualified colleagues and acquaintances who will bring their enthusiasm, talent, and ideas as active members of Les Dames d 'Escoffier's DC chapter. Requirements for membership include, but are not limited to, a minimum of FIVE years as a distinguished professional in the food, beverage or hospitality industry. If you have a candidate you would like to nominate or sponsor, please send her name, title, email address, and phone number to Julia Rutland at juliarutland@me.com by February 2, 2018.  Come meet our spotlighted Dame for this week!
Dame Susan M. Delbert joined the National Press Club as Executive Chef in 2009 after working in Washington DC restaurants: The Old Ebbitt Grill, Oval Room, BeDuCi and Gerard’s Place. She trained at the Culinary Institute in Hyde Park, NY. We sat down with her to find a little bit more about this very accomplished chef and found out that a smile goes a very long way....... My first job was and the greatest lesson I learned from it was: First job is tough to nail down, as I am a tax attorney by training and long experience, but I was also a cook, navigator, salesperson and owner of a one year old Golden Retriever. Sometimes I'm not sure where jobs, vocations and past-times begin and end. But a lesson I have taken from most employment is that a smile helps most situations, keeping calm goes a long way in diffusing volatility and doing one's homework also helps when tackling a new challenge If I were a kitchen tool, I'd be a: Calling oneself a tool is somewhat funny, given the slang use of the word. The indispensable, of course, the sharpest chef knife in the block.... The most pressing food issue facing the world today is: (1) clean water and adequate protein for exploding populations; (2) the effect of climate change on vegetation mutation and animal extinction; and (3) the inability to eat anything one wants, as often as one wants and still fit into last year's suit (joke). My favorite DC restaurant is: The Press Club has a restaurant open to the public, The Fourth Estate. Only a select 1% of Washington seems to know it is open to all. We serve seasonal, flavorful classic American cuisine. It's the restaurant in which I get to present my food, and my ideas of seasonality. How could this not be my favorite? The funniest/most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me on the job was: I'm much too clumsy to ever have just one embarrassment. My life is about comic relief..... The legacy I wish to leave is: This is tough: Good food, good friends, sharing time? Love lasts forever? Living well is the Best Revenge? A good friend is a friend indeed? Friday night #dointhecharleston with #ldei2015! Traditional southern fare and hospitality, an incredible bluegrass band, dancing and amazing cameos by our talented #dames taking center stage and belting it out!
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