Chef Jimmy Schmidt cooks at James Beard Celebrity Chef Tour Dinner Detroit 02-28-2018
THE APPARATUS ROOM TO WELCOME JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION’S CELEBRITY CHEF TOUR DINNER IN DETROIT ON FEBRUARY 28, 2018. Executive Chef Thomas Lents Welcomes World-Renowned Chefs from Detroit and Chicago for a Collaborative Dinner.
Detroit, Mich. (January 18, 2018) — The Apparatus Room and James Beard Award nominated chef, Thomas Lents, are pleased to host a James Beard Foundation’s Celebrity Chef Tour dinner on Wednesday, February 28, 2018. Chef Lents is teaming up with eight acclaimed Detroit and Chicago chefs for a memorable evening to benefit the James Beard Foundation.
Fellow chefs from Detroit and visiting chefs from Chicago, Chef Lents’ old stomping grounds, will create hors d’oeuvres for the cocktail reception and dishes for the 5-course seated dinner. Chefs include:
- Nick Dostal, Sixteen (Chicago, Il.)
- Doug Hewitt, Chartreuse (Detroit, Mich.)
- Andy Hollyday, Selden Standard (Detroit, Mich.)
- Anthony Lombardo, SheWolf Pastificio & Bar (Detroit, Mich.)
- James Rigato, Mabel Gray (Detroit, Mich.)
- Noah Sandoval, Oriole (Chicago, Il.)
- JBF Award Winner Jimmy Schmidt, Foodshed (Detroit, Mich.)
- Ryan McCasky, Acadia (Chicago, Il.)
The James Beard Foundation’s Celebrity Chef Tour allows people from across the nation to have a taste of what happens at the James Beard House in New York City while providing the opportunity to interact with participating chefs. The dinner will benefit the James Beard Foundation, which aims to celebrate chefs and culinary personnel who strive to benefit and improve America’s food community.
| WHEN: | Wednesday, February 28, 2018 6:30 PM |
| WHERE: | The Apparatus Room at the Detroit Foundation Hotel 250 W. Larned St., Detroit, MI 48226 |
| PRICE: | $175/person |
| Tickets go on sale January 18, 2018. For more details and to purchase visit: https://www.jamesbeard.org/events/detroit |
About the James Beard Foundation (JBF)
Founded in 1986, the James Beard Foundation celebrates, nurtures, and honors America’s diverse culinary heritage through programs that educate and inspire. A cookbook author and teacher with an encyclopedic knowledge about food, James Beard, who died in 1985, was a champion of American cuisine. He helped educate and mentor generations of professional chefs and food enthusiasts, instilling in them the value of wholesome, healthful, and delicious food. Today JBF continues in the same spirit by administering a number of diverse programs that include educational initiatives, food industry awards, scholarships for culinary students, publications, chef advocacy training, and thought-leader convening. The Foundation also maintains the historic James Beard House in New York City’s Greenwich Village as a “performance space” for visiting chefs. In September of 2012, JBF launched the Diplomatic Culinary Partnership with the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Protocol and helped create the American Chef Corps as a way to champion American chefs abroad, promote American food products, and foster an interest in American culinary culture and history through international programs and initiatives. https://www.jamesbeard.org/