Les Dames d'Escoffier San Antonio Chapter
An Evening With Julia
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
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Join us for an evening inspired by cooking teacher, author, and television personality Julia Child. This event is hosted by the Les Dames d’Escoffier San Antonio Chapter member restaurants. The memorable evening will feature delicious food, wine, beer, signature cocktails, and the renowned Les Dames d’Escoffier Pie Bar with pies for sale that were baked by SA Dames in Emile Henry ceramic pie dishes.
The event will raise funds to award the organization's Aspirations Grants, empowering women in food, beverage, nutrition, agriculture, and hospitality in their pursuit of further business enhancement or culinary innovation.
VIP tickets with 6PM entry and priority parking are $350.00. General admission tickets with 7PM entry and street parking are $250.00.Les Dames d'Escoffier
We are a philanthropic organization of women leaders in the food, beverage and hospitality industries. Our membership is highly diversified and reflects the fields of contemporary gastronomy and hospitality. We support our communities through grants, scholarships and mentorship.
Our organization is named after Auguste Escoffier (1846–1935), known as “The Chef of Kings” and “The King of Chefs.” He was the most innovative chef in history, one whose philosophy, accomplishments and philanthropic deeds serve as inspiration to culinary professionals today.
In 1936, a group of epicures, many of them former pupils of Auguste Escoffier, gathered at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City to form a men-only organization of dedicated gastronomes called Les Amis d’Escoffier Society of New York, Inc.
In the early 1970s, Carol Brock, the then Sunday food editor at the New York Daily News, set about to create the first organization for professional culinary women. She was inspired by the Boston group Les Dames des Amis d’Escoffier, a dining and philanthropic society formed in 1959 in response to the all-male Les Amis d’Escoffier.
Carol received a charter from the New York Les Amis d’Escoffier Society to form a women’s chapter. Her goal was to raise the image and presence of women in food, wine, and hospitality industries still largely dominated by men. In 1976, 50 prominent women formed Les Dames d’Escoffier New York. In 1985, after five chapters were formed (New York 1976, Washington, D.C. 1981, Chicago 1982, Dallas and Philadelphia 1984), their presidents met in New York to form LDEI. Boston’s Les Dames des Amis d’Escoffier joined LDEI in 1991 and became its Boston chapter.
PARKING AT THE ROOSEVELT LIBRARY
The Roosevelt Library has about 50 complimentary self-parking spaces available to guests. Street parking is also available. Vehicles should not to be left in the Roosevelt Library parking lot overnight. An SAPD officer will be monitoring the parking lot throughout the event. The Roosevelt Library will not be liable for theft or damages to vehicles or the contents of vehicles.
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HISTORY OF THE ROOSEVELT LIBRARY
In 1929 the library opened as the Roosevelt Park Branch Library, San Antonio’s South side library, and in 1968 it closed. The building is located across from the Roosevelt Park which marks the beginning of the Mission Reach Ecosystem Restoration and Recreation Project, an eight mile stretch of the San Antonio River that has received designation as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, the building’s architect was John Marriott who also designed the Carnegie Library in Delaware, Ohio. Leland Stone purchased the building in 2013 and, as heralded by SA2020, it is a “new kind of gathering space.”
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