Tuesday, February 20, 2018. I would prefer to stay home with the radio show, but I have two projects there that need my attention. More important still, we have a half-dozen in-studio guests, all of whom are promoting the same culinary event: the Chefs' Soiree For Children, which is easily the most auspicious gourmet event on the North Shore. With tickets at $145, it rivals in size, variety, and potential fun even the best similar events on the South Shore. All the best chefs from the vicinity (and many from over there, too)put out so much food that you can forget about trying all of it. This is also true of the wines and spirits to be sampled. I'm told that some forty or more wines will be there.
I suspect that many of the long-time attendees at the Soiree come year after year for the nostalgia it puts on the table. Many of the chefs date back to the times when La Provence's Chef Chris Kerageorgiou and his like were fixtures here.
There was a lot of flexing of my New Orleans Incest Rule (which states that only 500 people live in New Orleans, and that this explains why you run into so many of the same people in every venue. This time, I realize that musicians Michael and Denise Wagner have been playing at the Soiree for decades. But I sing for them in the same choir that they lead! How is that possible? They are among the 500 people, that's how.
One of the highlights of the Soiree is the raffle to give away a new Mustang. Lasy year, I put $100 on the raffle, so I could give one of the Marys a new car. But my daughter Mary Leigh reminds me that I am not a Mustang kind of person by a long shot. As if I should wine, the winning would be so wrong for a guy like me , and. . . I don't know what to do next. (I didn't win.)
Tickets for the Soiree are nearly sold out. The web site is chefssoiree.com.
Written by Tom Fitzmorris February 23, 2018 16:49 in
