| TED KRUCKEL 07.28.09 12:49 PM |
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Wacky Watermill Center Still Draws Dress-to-Impressers
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 | The Watermill Center has all sorts of education and community programs, many involving children.
Photo: Alice and Chris for BizBash |
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FROM NEW YORK
The gardens and grounds surrounding the Watermill Center were positively crawling with photographers, camera crews, and commentators during the cocktails preceding the annual summer benefit held on Saturday. But unlike most other Hamptons gangbangs, they weren't all packed together, clamoring for Kelly Ripa’s attention. In fact, while I asked Rufus Wainwright about his second annual concert here ("Last Song of Summer" with Norah Jones on August 29), I sensed photogs whizzing behind me, unawares.
That’s because there were tons of crazy and (mostly) interesting art performances and installations to shoot. This year’s theme, “Inferno,” was especially fruitful, yielding:
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Watermill Center, James Beard Foundation |
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| EVENT REPORT 05.05.09 4:04 PM |
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James Beard Awards Honor Women With Hot Pink Decor, Female Chefs
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 | The Beard Awards' gala reception
Photo: Roger Dong for BizBash |
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FROM NEW YORK
The James Beard Foundation returned to Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall Monday night for its annual award ceremony and chef-filled gala reception. Widely considered one of the most prestigious honors in the food business, the event drew about 1,700 people to watch the award show and sample a smorgasbord of food at the reception afterward. In spite of—or perhaps in response to—the lagging economy and struggling restaurant industry, organizers didn't tone down the glamour of previous years, and went with punchy pink decor in tribute to women in food, this year's theme. The event featured an all-female roster of 23 chefs in the grand tasting, as well as women mixologists, wine makers, cheese makers, and other food producers, for a total of 60 stations.
Foundation president Susan Ungaro said the theme was chosen to celebrate the number of female food professionals who have won Beard awards—350 over the past 19 years—and because of the timing of the soon-to-be-released movie Julie & Julia, in which Meryl Streep plays Julia Child, a friend of James Beard and a founding member of the organization. "[The movie] offered us another opportunity to celebrate one of the great women chefs in history and her link to James Beard," said Ungaro. Sony pictures created a special trailer of the movie that played during the awards, which were co-hosted by Stanley Tucci (who plays Child's husband, Paul, in the movie), Cat Cora, and Emeril Lagasse.
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James Beard Awards, James Beard Foundation, Stella Artois, Rums of Puerto Rico, Julia Child, Julie & Julia, Plymouth Gin |
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| NEWS 05.17.07 11:35 AM |
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Beard Foundation to Host Nationwide Food Events
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FROM NEW YORK
In an effort to extend the Beard brand beyond the James Beard Foundation's big award show, event
producer David Bowen of Bowen & Company
is working with the foundation to produce Taste America,
a weekend of simultaneous food events in 20 cities on September 28 and 29. The
events, held in Williams-Sonoma stores, will feature tastings as well as
cookbook signings and cooking demonstrations by regional award-winning chefs.
There will also be exclusive dinners in restaurants featuring award-winning
chefs, with proceeds benefiting local food charities. —Lisa Cericola
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James Beard Foundation, Williams-Sonoma |
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