This is a Seated Dinner, with a cocktail hour followed by a five course meal with paired beverages, featuring 6 chefs and 5 craft beverage makers.
Menu sneak peek! These talented chefs are cooking up an exciting selection of dishes! Menu options being discussed are: mini buttermilk biscuits with pimento cheese and dill pickles; smoked cheddar grits with braised collards, fried chicken, yard pepper hot sauce and savory sorghum; Momma’s Honduran chicken–oven roasted chicken with Garifuna rice and Guanaca salad, bourbon caramel corn bread pudding with candied pecans and more to come!
Food has the universal ability to tell our stories — it connects us to powerful memories, traditions and ancestries. For this captivating event, five diverse community leaders will be paired with chefs to tell their own stories through food. Each lived experience will inspire a five-course, paired beverage tasting dinner. During each course, the Chefs & Storytellers will share with us their story and the process of transforming that story into a delicious and unique dish.
Speakers: Ponkho Bermejo – BeLoved Asheville; Stu Helm – Food Fan; Roy Harris – Southside Community Leader; Allison Scott – Campaign for Southern Equality; Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle – Eastern Band Cherokee Indian author, teacher
Featured Chefs/Restaurants: Christian Albrecht – Braised & Confit, Michelle Bailey – Smoky Park Supper Club, Eric Morris – Cultura, Patricia Saenz – Pupuseria Paty, Gene Ettison – The Ettison Group
Featured Beverage: Cultivated Cocktails Distillery, New Belgium Brewing, Wicked Weed Brewing, Vidl Cellars, Marked Tree Vineyard, Top of the Monk, Oak& Grist Distilling, Shanti Elixirs, Embrew Tea, Devil’s Foot Beverage Company, Mountain Valley Spring Water, Sarilla Sparkling Tea, Blue Ridge Mountain Water sponsored by Biltmore
Makers Market: Botanical Bones, Loom Imports, Matcha Nude, Provisions Mercantile, Organic Growers School, Sister of Mother Earth, Goddess Ghee, Embrew Tea, Red Fiddle Vittles
Event Sponsor: New Belgium Brewing