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Hi, my name is Jeff Black and I'm the President of the James
Bead Celebrity Chef Tour.
We are really happy to be here at Darwin's on 4th tonight for the
Celebrity Chef Tour benefiting the James Beard
Foundation dinner.
The James Beard Foundation is a culinary foundation in New York that
Julia Child and a number of other chefs, including
Wolf Gang Puck started in 1986
when James Beard, who is considered the Father of America cooking, passed away.
And when he passed away in 1986, these chefs
got together and started the foundation to continue his legacy.
One of the things they do is at James Beard's
house on 12th Street in New York City
is they invite chefs in to do dinners at the house.
And tonight, we have taken the James Beard
house on tour here at Darwin's on 4th in Sarasota, Florida.
And we have invited some amazing Chefs in.
Chef Pascal, Chef Clay, Chef Ted Mendez and
of course our host chef, Chef Darwin.
>> CHEF DARWIN: Well I want to welcome you to Darwin's and I am very excited to host
this dinner, the James Beard Celebrity Chef Tour.
I am very excited, for the first time in Sarasota,
we get to host a dinner especially for the James Beard Foundation.
We are bringing in three exceptional chefs,
all James Beard Foundation winners.
I'm looking forward to this experience, cooking, not only for us we are very honored,
But this organization, especially being the
first time in Sarasota with our Peruvian cuisine and our brewery, to showcase our food.
There's a lot of good restaurants here in
Sarasota, by all means we are one of the top cities being rated in Zagat and Florida Trend
Magazine too.
This is just the beginning and we would like to get all the chefs together, the local chefs,
to do it hopefully next year to do this type of dinner.
This gives us more energy, especially as a
chef and restaurant tour, to keep working these dinners especially for the James Beard
Foundation.
>> JEFF BLACK: You can find out more information about the Celebrity Chef Tour
at www.celebritycheftour.com.
And then the James Beard Foundation,
which is a culinary foundation that promotes
the James Beard American cooking.
They do scholarships for kids, they do the James Beard Awards, which is like the Academy
Awards of the culinary world.
And they also do sustainability for wineries and farms.
So you can find out about the James Beard
Foundation
at www.jamesbeard.org.
You can also make your reservation for the James Beard House if you are ever in New York,
and we encourage you to go.
>> DARWIN: It's just an honor to finish the
whole year with this dinner.
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