This Saturday! A dinner to celebrate Chef Edna Lewis

The Sugar Beet Co-op is throwing a beautiful event this Saturday at Inspiration Kitchen. We are celebrating the life and work of Chef Edna Lewis. Considered the "Grande Dame" of Southern cooking, she cooked in rhythm with the seasons and wrote cookbooks that read like diaries of her life growing up on a farm in Virginia.
The dinner menu below will be served in 4 courses along with readings of her work by Chicago chef Kocoa Scott-Winbush and her team of performers and musicians.
Tickets are $50 for you! I want to fill the gorgeous dining room at Inspiration Kitchen in Garfield Park.
here is the link:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/428883
Saturday October 5
6-7 pm cocktails in the garden
7-9:30 dinner and performance
$50 includes dinner, performance and wine and beer
Appetizer Course – Spring
Fried Green Tomatoes with Buttermilk Dipping Sauce
Salad Course – Summer
Watermelon Salad with Cucumber, Feta, and Mint with a Lime Vinaigrette
Entrée Course – Autumn
Cola Glazed Chicken Breast with Fried Collards and Spaghetti Squash
Or
Faro Pilau with Squash, Caramelized Cauliflower, and Crispy Chickpeas
Dessert Course – Winter
Baked Mississippi
Cucumber aqua fresca and Basil Lemonade on tap as well as wine and beer

Hi,

Will Scott Peacock attend or is this related to the Edna Lewis Foundation?

If it is a dinner theme with Edna Lewis as the centerpiece, of course that is fine, too.

Regards,

No, I don't know Scott Peacock. If you know him please pass along an invitation. I assume he lives in NYC? Love to have his blessing, at least!

Scott Peacock is a talented chef who had a long time friendship with Miss Lewis, and was in fact her caretaker in her later years (she died at his home in 2006). They co-wrote "The Gift of Southern Cooking." For many years he was the chef at Watershed in Atlanta, but to the best of my knowledge he is no longer associated with any restaurant.

Thank you both for your comments. This event is not in relation to the Edna Lewis Foundation.
I heard Kocoa Scott Winbush read from "Taste of Country Cooking" at UIC Hull House "ReThinking Soup" series last year and was intrigued. I have read a lot about chefs, food, cooking and had never heard of Edna Lewis. I found her writings to be beautiful and so important to pass along.
I am the Exec Director of a nascent nfp called The Sugar Beet Co-op. We are building a food co-op in the Oak Park area and are also organizing educational experiences that inspire people to eat locally and grow their own food.

Please consider joining us for the evening! It's going to be lovely.

www.sugarbeetcoop.com