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CAMERA! ACTION! COOK! Dames with TV Cooking Shows SPRING 2020 CAMERA! ACTION! COOK! Dames with TV Cooking Shows JOANNE WEIR MARY ANN ESPOSITO (San Francisco) (Boston) Plates and Places Ciao Italia PATI JINICH CHING HE HUANG (Washington, D.C.) (London) Pati’s Mexican Table Chinese Food Made Easy ALSO INSIDE ... LEGACY REPORTS | NEW ORLEANS & HAWAII FUNDRAISERS | TRENDS | LDEI BOARD IN NASHVILLE Thanks to Judith McDonough and the Boston Chapter! We want to acknowledge our appreciation of Judith McDonough and her Mariposa Fine Wine & Spirits and the Boston Dames for their contribution to the Nashville Conference. FROM THE EDITOR The Year of Seeing 20/20 SPRING 2 O20 As opposed to Y2K when the world worried about computers going haywire as 2000 rolled over, this twentieth year of the mil- lennium should be the year of seeing clearly: 20/20. One of the great benefits of vision is IN THIS ISSUE putting two and two together and seeing things happen. FEATURES A picture may be worth 1,000 words, but a moving Dames with TV Cooking Shows picture on TV screens com- 4 bines words and actions to create a visual learning experi- 10 New York Culinary Melting Pot ence. In the culinary world, cooking shows on TV can be At left, Dolores Kostelni 14 LDEI Blueprint Moving Forward the ultimate visual “how to.” (Washington, D.C.) appeared on The year 2020 is what gave CiCi Williamson’s TV show, The Best of Virginia Farms. Tragically, 16 LDEI Board Meets in Louisville me the idea to feature Dames Dolores was later killed in a who star in TV cooking Charlottesville, Virginia, crosswalk 18 Legacy Awards Winners Reports shows. Though she was not by a hit-and-run driver. the first television cook, Grande Dame Julia Child’s The French Chef, filmed by Boston’s WGBH PBS-TV beginning in 1963, was the most widely seen. DEPARTMENTS Who can forget the episode where Julia dropped a chicken on the floor? How visual was that! If it had been on radio, would a thud Leadership in Action have made it ‘round the world? 11 This genre accelerated in the ensuing decades to the point of entire cable TV networks being devoted to cooking and star chefs 12 Fundraising being created. Dames have been in the vanguard of this devel- opment, many of whom have had TV shows for decades and 15 Trends some who were on the ground floor of network development. Sue Huffman Robinson (Sacramento and San Francisco) was a 22 Chapter News founder of the Food Network in 1993. As Senior Vice President for Programming, Sue fondly remembers that Emeril Lagasse was 26 Member Milestones the Network’s first big star. I myself had a TV series in the first decade of the millennium. 28 Green Tables It was filmed by Norfolk, Virginia’s WHRO PBS-TV, in 17 segments from my book, The Best of Virginia Farms. All of it was filmed in locations around my state, and it was challenging. For Global Culinary Postcard 30 example, to film a show about making crab cakes in Tangier, a small island in the Chesapeake Bay, the TV crew and I had to use an ice-breaker boat to get through the February floes on the bay. But “the show must go on,” and we made it. So my toque’s off to all Dames who brave the elements and the hot lights to create the ultimate culinary visual “how to.” After all, this is the year of 20/20. We can see clearly now! © Les Dames d’ Escoffier, 2020. —CiCi Williamson, Editor, Spring Quarterly 2 Les Dames d’Escoffier International PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Start Where You Are… A President’s Message is never an easy piece to compose. It’s January in Ohio as I write this knowing you’ll be reading it in the Spring…when crocuses are blooming and (hopefully) the last of the snow has fallen. What should I speak of? (Peering into my crystal ball….) I’ll be half way through my LDEI Presidency. For some inspiration, I checked in with a few of our LDEI Past Presidents to see what they had spoken of. These takeaways are just as relevant today as when they were written: Lori Willis (St. Louis) reminded us… We—all of us chefs, writers, educators, caterers, authors, merchants, etc.—are the “morale” of LDEI. Within our chapters we connect with people on an emotional basis and everyone we USE WHAT YOU HAVE… on this year’s annual Conference— serve is lifted in different ways. Have we had time to chat (in per- October 15-18, 2020—celebrating a Culinary Melting Pot. I’m just WHO HAVE YOU CONNECTED WITH? son, by phone, by email, by text)? I enjoy hearing from all of you… going to assume that you’re plan- HOW HAVE YOU CHOSEN TO “LIFT THEM UP”? yes, even when we don’t agree! One ning on attending our upcoming Stacy Zeigler (Atlanta) reminded us… of my responsibilities as LDEI 2020 LDEI Conference in New We are a business…as is your chapter…but that doesn’t mean President is to listen, to understand York, our 2021 LDEI Conference while taking care of the business of running your business you your viewpoint and to take your in San Antonio, and now our 2022 can’t have fun, too! opinions under consideration as LDEI Conference in Kentucky. I’ll we move together—as we strive to look forward to seeing you at each ARE YOU RUNNING YOUR CHAPTER LIKE A BUSINESS? move our organization forward. of these where together we can raise WHAT’S THAT FUN COMPONENT THAT KEEPS EVERYONE a glass to toast your successes. ENGAGED, INVOLVED AND RETURNING? DO WHAT YOU CAN… And by the time you’re reading this, chapters such as your own Maria Gomez (Mexico and San Diego) reminded us… At our face2face Board Meeting in would have held some fabulous We raise our glasses to toast and applaud our successes…history, January your LDEI Board crafted a events raising monies for schol- accomplishments and each other. Strategic Plan (being ever mindful arships and mentorships, new of our history, mission and vision), chapters will be percolating and HAVE YOU CELEBRATED LDEI’S AND YOUR OWN working in cooperation with the our Trends Report will have once CHAPTER’S HISTORY? Strategic Plan Steering Committee again gained traction (bringing that will assist in overseeing our DO YOU MAKE AN EFFORT TO CONGRATULATE EACH recognition and credibility to our action plan(s). OTHER ON ACCOMPLISHMENTS—BIG AND SMALL? organization and membership). I began the year with my grati- Hayley Matson-Mathes (Hawaii) reminded us… What are you going to do? Every- tude campaign (#ldeigratitude). As Dames we are part of a network that is much larger than our thing, is my guess. Have you thought about what you individual chapters—our reach and power is awe-inspiring. It will be a little messy, but embrace are grateful for? Share it on one of the mess. our social platforms (Facebook, ARE YOU ACTIVELY PARTICIPATING IN THE CHAPTER It will be complicated, but rejoice in BOARD LIAISON CALLS, OUR WEBINARS, POSTING ON Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn) or the complications. email me (bev.foodwithattitude@ OUR SOCIAL CHANNELS AND ATTENDING OUR ANNUAL —Nora Ephron CONFERENCES? gmail.com). ARE YOU “IN THE MOMENT” WHILE ON THE CALL, A special note of gratitude to the Piglet noticed that even though he ABSORBING INFORMATION YOU CAN PASS ON Kentucky Chapter that hosted had a very small heart, TO YOUR MEMBERSHIP WHILE SHARING YOUR us in Louisville. Speaking of the it could hold a rather large amount EXPERIENCES? Kentucky Chapter, the excitement of gratitude.—A. A. Milne and pre-planning is building in Ann Stratte (Washington, D.C.) reminded us… anticipation of their hosting our In the spirit of our founder, Carol Brock, realize there are no Hugs, 2022 LDEI Conference. barriers if you look at things in a new and imaginative way. Our LDEI Conferences continue HOW OPEN ARE YOU TO NEW IDEAS OR ARE YOU to take us to cities where our host “STUCK WITH THE WAY IT WAS”? chapters inspire and motivate Bev Shaffer us while sharing their pride and CHANGE ISN’T ALWAYS COMFORTABLE…BUT IT’S NEC- President, LDEI unique sense of place. Cleveland Chapter ESSARY TO REMAIN RELEVANT AND MOVE OUR ORGA- Our New York Dames are franti- NIZATION FORWARD. cally putting the finishing touches #ldeigratitude SPRING QUARTERLY 2020 3 Dames with TV Cooking Shows CAMERA! ACTION! COOK! Women have been integral to food shows on television since before LDEI was formed, and they are a very visible standard bearer for our organization since. Featured here are nine of the currently longest-running food TV shows hosted by Dames who responded to my emails. In the professions listing of the LDEI directory are many more. I regret that lack of space prevents featuring all. As well, many Dames have hosted TV cooking shows in the past and are now retired or have passed away (see Julia Child). The current queen is Grande Dame Nathalie Dupree (Charleston) who hosted more than 300 national and international cooking shows that have aired on PBS, the Food Network, and the Learning Channel. Nancy Siler (Minnesota) hosted Telly Award-winning PBS Bake Decorate Celebrate! that aired in 90% of the U.S. and 46 other countries for many years. Carol Ritchie (Dallas) hosted Cookin’ with Carol, a cable TV cooking show. Others of note are Harry Eastwood (Paris), whose most recent TV series have included Fox’s Baking Good, Baking Bad and Sinful Sweets, which aired on Cooking Channel USA.
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