The third annual Top Chef of the Champlain Valley, an Iron Chef Experience will be held at UVM’s Davis Center Aug 10, 2009 at 6pm to benefit the Champlain Valley Agency on Aging’s Meals on Wheels and Case Management programs. Watch as Sam Palmisano of Pulcinella’s defends his title against Robert Barral of Cafe Provence and JJ Vezina of the Windjammer Restaurant and Upper Deck Pub. Enjoy appetizers from some of the areas top chefs. Farrell Distributing and Woodchuck Draft Cider will be holding a wine, beer and draft cider tasting.Silent Auction items include weekend getaways including a spa getaway at the Stowe Mountain Lodge, a tasting dinner at Stowe Mountain Lodge’s Solstice Restaurant, a catered 3 course meal delivered to your family of 4 by Melissa Pasanen using recipes from her cookbook “Cooking with Shelburne Farms, a chance to join Seven Days Suzanne Podhaizer as she reviews a local restaurant, restaurant gift certificates, cooking lessons, gourmet food products, autographed celebrity cookbooks and much more. For more information or to purchase tickets online please click on the link below.http://www.cvaa.org/involved_topchef_09.shtml(link is external)Tickets are $35 and they are going fast. For more information call 865-0360. Please feel free to forward this on. The Top Chef helps CVAA be able to deliver nearly 225,000 Meals on Wheels each year to homebound seniors in the Champlain Valley. read more
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