Two Meals for Great Causes

Been traveling a lot lately....

Last week I was in Los Angeles, to give Nancy Silverton an award for all the work she does for children.  The party, at the rather astonishing Greenacres, former home of Harold Lloyd, was a dazzling evening of great food and wonderful people, a fund raiser for No Kid Hungry  that raised a serious lot of money. Here's the menu:

This week it was off to DC, to honor Danny Meyer at the Julia Child Awards at The Smithsonian. Another fantastic evening of great people and delicious food. -

The Smithsonian followed the Gala with a weekend of programming, and I have to say that the roundtables were both illuminating and utterly fascinating.  Here's the schedule.  I was so impressed by the people on the panels that I'm buying virtually ALL of their books.