Dear Sister Dames,
Please check our chapter calendar to see what events are planned for the rest of the year and into next year. Each member must attend at least one chapter event each year.
Please feel free to contact me with any suggestions or concerns.
Janet Yu
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SPRING GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING - SAVE THE DATE - JUNE 8
Please mark your calendars to attend our spring general membership meeting and breakfast on Saturday, June 8, at 1310 Kitchen & Bar in the Georgetown Inn, 1310 Wisconsin Ave. N.W., Washington D.C. Every LDE-DC Dame must attend at least one general membership meeting per year to remain a member in good standing. Stay tuned for details.
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In memory of Marianne Ali, LDE-DC will sponsor its second annual brunch on Friday, May 3 to celebrate the 118th graduating class of 16 from DC Central Kitchen's culinary training program. This year also marks DCCK's 30th anniversary of changing lives and serving our community. More details and sign-ups for food donations coming soon.
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Cathy Barrow's new book, Pie Squared: Irresistibly Easy Sweet & Savory Slab Pies (Grand Central Publishing), is a finalist for the Baking and Desserts category of the James Beard Foundations Book Awards. Cathy is clearly on a roll! Her first book, Mrs. Wheelbarrow's Kitchen was the IACP Award Winner for Best Single Subject Cookbook in 2015!
Amy Brandwein, chef of Centrolina, her restaurant in DC's City Center, is a finalist for the Best Chef Mid-Atlantic from the James Beard Foundation. The JBF Gala awards ceremony will be held Monday, May 6, at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Susan Soorenko is finally opening her Ellicott City Moorenko's Ice Cream at 8054 Main Street in April. The opening was delayed because of the flooding in Ellicott City last year. Susan will also have a shop within a shop (Serendipity and More on Prince Street) in Frederick later this Spring.
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Program director, a full-time faculty position in the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management (HTM) at the Universities at Shady Grove. Click here for more information.
Full-time events manager, front of house manager, host, and food runner needed at RIS, an upscale neighborhood restaurant serving seasonal American food, run by executive chef and owner, Ris Lacoste. For more information click here.
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A 920 sq. ft. commercial kitchen space is available for sublet in the Moorenko ice cream factory. Amenities include: walk-in cooler, freezer space, commercial ovens and mixers, prep tables, grease trap, loading area and office. For further information, please contact Susan Soorenko, (301) 565-8050, susan@moorenkos.com
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DAMES WHO READ - DAMES ONLY BOOK CLUB
Our Dames-only book club is open to all members. We meet every six weeks on a Monday evening. The host chooses the book, usually available in the library and in paperback, and provides refreshments. It is a convivial group. If you wish to join, contact Eileen Dykes at eileendykes@gmail.com or any of the upcoming hosts (see below). If you are interested in hosting, please let Eileen know. If you have a book you would like to read and discuss, also let Eileen know. Otherwise, we are sure other members can offer some ideas! DATE: Monday, May 13
TIME: 7:00 p.m.
PLACE: The home of Bette Alberts,3107 Cleveland Ave. NW, Washington, DC
BOOK SELECTION: Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
PRICE: Free. The host provides refreshments.
Upcoming Meetings:
Optional: Aug. 12 - We usually don't meet in the summer but could if we have interest.
THE INFLUENCES OF RITZ AND ESCOFFIER
Join Luke Barr, author of Ritz & Escoffier-The Hotelier, the Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class as he shares the story of César Ritz and Auguste Escoffier joining forces in 1889 at the Savoy Hotel and of their impact on the hotel and restaurant industry.
DATE: Saturday, May 4, 2019
TIME: 12:30 to 3:00 p.m.
PLACE: The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Washington, DC
PRICE: $75 Dames/$85 non Dames (non-members' price includes a $10 tax-exempt donation for LDEI-DC scholarships)
RESERVATIONS: Information to come soon. www.lesdamesdc.org; Reservation or cancellation deadline Monday, April 29.
PARKING: Valet only is $8 for program's guests with validation sticker provided at event check-in.
METRO: Dupont Circle or Foggy Bottom.
GLENSTONE MUSEUM - DAMES ONLY- FIRST COME FIRST SERVE
Gail Forman has nabbed hard-to-get tickets to visit the new Glenstone Museum in Potomac, MD. Limited to 15. Once you reserve your place, Gail will get back to you with ticket and entry information.
The group will begin with a Dutch-treat lunch at Glenstone's informal café-- soup, salads, sandwiches -- where Brian Patterson, formerly of L'Academie de Cuisine, is the chef. Afterwards, you can visit all areas of the private museum, which encompasses two buildings, several outdoor sculptures and more than 230 acres of landscape. It is an amazing place.
DATE: Sunday, June 2
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PRICE: $5 to cover reservations and LDE-DC administration fee.
Please register on today, click here, to secure your spot. Space for this event is limited to 15 people so sign up today! No refunds so please make sure you can attend before registering.
RSVP: Click here to purchase your ticket on Eventbrite. The password is dames4ever all lower case.
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Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown was the March Dames Who Read selection. The story revolves around the inventive dishes prepared by a chef, imprisoned at sea by pirates and whose life depends upon preparing a gourmet meal each week for the captain, from the ship's paltry provisions plus what he can beg, borrow or steal. Romance, bloodshed and relative culinary masterpieces ensue. Armed only with descriptions of ingredients and the preparations, host Sheila Crye painstaking translated them into recipes and then set about creating a delicious repast.
L-r seated: Paula Jacobson, Gail Forman, Olga Boikess, Katherine Newell Smith, Sheila Crye
Standing: Sheilah Kaufman, Marie Steffany, Kari Barrett, Susan Callahan, Drew Faulkner, Susan Barocas
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Friday, April 5, 10:00 a.m. and Sat, April 6, 4:00 p.m. Food Writing Forum: Opportunities and Challenges in a Digital Age. The New School, Lang Building, 65 W 11th Street, 5th Floor,New York, NY 10003. Featuring Florence Fabricant, Rozanne Gold, Dorie Greenspan, Marion Nestle and others. The food writing craft is in transition from the traditional world of magazines, newspapers, and cookbooks in print, to the digital world of food blogs, digital books, websites, online restaurant reviewing, memoirs, recipes, food photography and the influence of social networks. If observers and technologists are to be believed, many more changes are soon to come. Top food writers will examine the positive and negative food writing trends in the digital age.https://www.eventbrite.com/e/food-writing-forum-tickets-58162060288
*PLEASE NOTE that your ticket includes admission to both days.
Tuesday, April 9, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Third Annual Chefs Cycle for No Kid Hungry, Gunther& Co., 3650 Toone Street, Brewers Hill, Baltimore, MD 21224. Once again Nancy Trice and Jerry Trice will be riding 300 miles with Chefs Cycle for No Kid Hungry in Santa Rosa, CA to help end childhood hunger. Enjoy bites and cocktails from Baltimore's top restaurants and an incredible silent auction geared to raise $40,000 to provide 400,000 meals for hungry children. To purchase tickets for this event or to donate money to help end this solvable problem, visit http://eatatgunther.com/calendar/
Wednesday, April 10, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. World Bank/IMF Spring Meeting, Wednesday, April 10, from 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Tambra Ray Stevenson presenting during Gaming for Development: Using the Power of Games to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals." Free to attend, registration required, click here for more details.
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ENTRE NEWS is published on the first and third Wednesday of each month. It is on hiatus during the month of August. Deadline for HURRAH! and other news is the second and fourth Thursday of each month. Please send a BRIEF paragraph with your professional and personal news that you would like your sister Dames to know about in HURRAH!
HURRAH! is not meant as an advertising opportunity for a cooking class or event, rather it offers a shout out to members for recent accomplishments and honors. Please submit your HURRAH to kns4pr@erols.com in a succinct 75 words of less.
OF INTEREST offers Dames a chance to let their sister chapter members know about events they are involved in that might be of interest to a majority of the membership. Its function is not to promote products, cooking classes, culinary trips, etc., rather to alert members to public programs that might be of professional interest, especially if Dames are featured. We request OF INTEREST entries to be no longer than 150 words. Less is always better.
JOB OPPS can open Dames networks to employment opportunities.
Thank you for you continued interest and participation.
Katherine Newell Smith
Founding Editor, Entre News
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Social Media Connections
Connect with Sister Dames
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 @LesDamesDC
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We need ALL members who have FB, Twitter and Instagram accounts to follow and actively re-tweet our members' tweets to spread the great news about our activities and programs!
Connect with Les Dames d'Escoffier International
Please share news, events and updates. Join the LDEI members-only LinkedIn Group to stay connected with other Dames.
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Join a Committee....
You were invited to join Dames because of your talents and achievements and you promised to be part of our chapter's committee work; so, now it is time to
Get Involved!
Our committees offer the perfect opportunity to get to know your sister Dames, share your skills and to give back to the community through service. Every committee needs dedicated participants. Please contact the committee chairs and offer your time and skills, now.
2018-2019 Committee Chairs
Membership - Dames Who Dine:
Karen Lippold
Membership - Engagement:
Lori Gardner
Grants:
Jessica Botta
Scholarships:
Nona Nielsen Parker
Green Tables:
Susan Lutz
Programs:
Eileen Dykes
Global Culinary Initiatives:
Amy Riolo
Public Relations:
Summer Whitford
summer@foodandwinediva.com
Development:
TBA
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Julia Rutland
Financial Officer
Claire Gill
Communications Officer
OPEN - TBA
Directors
Laurie Bell
(Programs)
Karen Lippold
(Dames Who Dine)
Susan Lutz
(Green Tables)
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Please submit your Entre News information in a brief, concise statement to Katherine Newell Smith at kns4pr@erols.com. |
To view the latest approved board meeting minutes, go to www.lesdamesdc.org and
click on the Members Only tab and enter the password. Click on the dropdown menu for LDE-DC Board and you will see a link to the board meeting minutes. During each monthly board meeting, the board approves the previous month's minutes and they are then posted to our website.
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It is easy to find chapter documents and resources, our event archives and past editions of Entre News.
We now have a single password that all Dames must use to access the Members Only section of the website. The password is ldedc2014. Please do not share this password with anyone outside of the Chapter.
If you are having trouble logging into the website please contact our Communications Officer at lesdamesdc.list@gmail.com
Under Member Login, you will see a revised menu where you can find:
- past and current Entre News issues posted under the Entre News Archives tab.
- archives of past chapter activities in the LDE-DC Dame Only Events menu along with upcoming events.
- helpful files including chapter letterhead, name tag template, LDEI logos and tax-exempt certificates under Documents and Forms.
- our chapter's standing rules, bylaws and membership roster under Bylaws, Roster & Minutes.
- A roster of Dames that can be printed out.
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Member Milestones - Share your professional news with Dames in all Chapters in our LDEI Quarterly. Shout, don't whisper, about your accomplishments. We all want a chance to say "Bravo!"
Submit your news to:
The deadline for sending in Member Milestones and Chapter News for the SUMMER issue of the LDEI Quarterly is April 12th.
Archived Quarterly magazines
are available online. If you are not receiving hard copies of Quarterly, please check your online contact information at www.ldei.org If it is correct, please contact Greg Jewell to make sure you are on the mailing list.
PROVIDE DAME'S NAME and CHAPTER. Submit up to 50 words about honors or important business-related activities to appear in the LDEI Quarterly. You may email a quality headshot to accompany your news. Press releases and cookbook covers are not accepted. Entries received after the deadline may appear in a following issue.
Quarterly Guidelines:
Photography/Images-Electronic images must be properly focused, in color with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi (TIFF or JPEG). Cell phone photos are acceptable if they meet resolution requirements. Do not send photos taken off the internet or embedded with text in Word files or PDF files. Identify individuals in photos from left to right in the message of your email. Include photo credits, if required. CAPTIONS ARE REQUIRED FOR PUBLICATION. |
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