Culinary Garage & Bake Sale, November 12

CULINARY GARAGE , TAG and BAKE SALE

To benefit the efforts of Chicago’s Greencity market and Les Dames D’Escoffier
Saturday November 12, 2011 at NAHA
8AM-2PM
500 N. Clark Street

Chefs from across Chicago and America will be donating their culinary kitchen treasures from their own kitchens as well as their restaurants to help fundraising efforts for the Les Dames d’Escoffier Chicago scholarship and Green Table initiatives and the greencity market farmer education programs.

Just in time for the holidays!!!
One person’s trash is another person’s treasure says the old saying!
Chefs and Restaurateurs have the best……
Chef knives, kitchen tools and implements, small wares, cookware, sauté pans, cutting boards, equipment, chef coats, aprons, cookbooks, menus, artwork, assorted promotional materials, China, Glassware and Silver..!

We will be having a wine bottle pull, Gift Certificate Grab and much more…

All of Chicago’s best pastry chefs will be creating an Old Fashioned Bake Sale of their favorite baked goods. They will be packaged to go on the pastry chefs own china as an added remembrance.

CASH AND CARRY!

Now that sounds wonderful .. Wow

Hello Cathy,

Obviously this is swim class Jeff! I am setting my calander for November 12th. This sounds like an amazing event! I have moved to the Lincoln Park location of Equinox, very close to the GCM. I am excited to see you again!

EquinoxJeff wrote:Hello Cathy,

Obviously this is swim class Jeff! I am setting my calander for November 12th. This sounds like an amazing event! I have moved to the Lincoln Park location of Equinox, very close to the GCM. I am excited to see you again!

Jeff,

You have moved this my most-go event.

(Tell your Mom about the Tea with Bertha Palmer. I think she'd love it.)

Regards,

I will pass the information on to my mother, I am sure she would love this! Thank you for the suggestion and quick response!

This sounds great & for a great cause.

Hi,

A gentle reminder this is Saturday.

Regards,

I didn't arrive until 11:30 because I had an appointment all morning. Along with a few others, we were disappointed to see the "Sold Out" sign upon our arrival. If any other LTHers made, I am interested in hearing more about the merchandise selection and baked goods as well as pricing.

Pucca wrote:I didn't arrive until 11:30 because I had an appointment all morning. Along with a few others, we were disappointed to see the "Sold Out" sign upon our arrival. If any other LTHers made, I am interested in hearing more about the merchandise selection and baked goods as well as pricing.

Pucca! I should have posted here. I put it on Twitter and Facebook. I drove down around 7:45 am and there was already a line wrapped around the west side of Naha. By the time I parked, a mere block and a half away and walked over to join the line, there were well over 100 folks ahead of me.

I don't think I missed anything on the tables that was fantastic, besides what appeared to be a 14 c food processor that a woman was clutching for $65 and another electric kettle. There was a lot of weird truly cast-off looking stuff, but I also saw another woman in line with 2 well seasoned All-Clad frying pans(v.v. large).

Plates from Carlucci and Four Seasons. Ceramic tea pots, asian style soup ladles (for individual bowls of soup) rocket pop molds, mini-wine carafes. Marble-like table tops from a restaurant.

I scored a large French press for $8. The pastries looked dramatic. There was a wedding-style cake from Goddess and Green Grocer-- 2 layers that was red velvet for $50. There were beautiful raspberry layered tortes from the French Pastry school about $45. A lovely tray of honeycomb cakes/cookies from F & O that I almost bought for my husband for $25. Chef Table + for 5 at Charlie Trotters, I think that was being auctioned starting at 1k. Several lovely bottles of expensive wine, some magnums. Also some weird stuff like fifths of Moonshine for $5.

All and all, I would go again, but I don't know that you missed anything.

It sounds like I didn't miss much. Thanks for the report back, pairs4life. (I just started following you on twitter.)

I got there at about 8:30. Scored a $2 serving plate, a lifetime supply of bamboo skewers for a buck, and a like-new cookbook for $8. I didn't pay attention to the baked goods sitting on the bar.