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20 th Emerald Anniversary! DIGITAL & DELECTABLE SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 – 7 P.M. - LIVESTREAM PRESENTED BY BROUGHT TO YOU BY 20 th Emerald nniversary! Evening Highlights A 7:00 p.m. Welcome to Cuisine & Cuvée: Digital & Delectable A TASTE FROM HOME Emcee & Host, Kevin Brauch, Iron Chef America, The Thirsty Traveller Cheers to the 20th anniversary of Cuisine & Cuvée in support of Providence Healthcare! Message of Gratitude from Unity Health Toronto What a year it has been! COVID-19 has greatly impacted the Dr. Tim Rutledge, President & CEO, Unity event industry in Toronto, but not even a pandemic can stop Health Toronto us from celebrating this momentous occasion: our emerald anniversary of Cuisine & Cuvée. We made some important changes to ensure tonight’s event could happen, and with 7:05 p.m. Strength is. Providence Healthcare help from you, our sponsors, donors, partners, and friends, Yanira Guevara we did it! For this special edition of Cuisine & Cuvée we are going digital… Digital & Delectable to be exact! 7:10 p.m. The Main Event: Celebrity Chef Susur Lee Get your apron ready for Chef Lee’s exclusive We’ve enlisted the help of some culinary icons to make Cuisine & Cuvée recipe this a memorable evening. Celebrity Chef Susur Lee will dazzle us with an exclusive recipe he created just for you, our guests. Kristen Barnhisel, acclaimed winemaker at 7:30 p.m. Wine Tasting with J. Lohr J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines, will lead a tasting experience Acclaimed winemaker, Kristen Barnhisel with wine specially paired with Chef Lee’s dish. Our emcee provides an exclusive pairing and tasting for the evening, Kevin Brauch, former host of Iron Chef experience America and The Thirsty Traveller, will entertain us from beginning to end. While this year’s event is different from years past, the 7:40 p.m. Q & A with Celebrity Chef Susur Lee reason we come together remains: to raise critical funds Moderated by Kevin Brauch for Providence Healthcare. During this unprecedented time, know that your participation in Cuisine & Cuvée directly supports the strong patients, residents, clients, and staff 7:45 p.m. Door Prize Draw of Providence at a time when it’s needed most. Kevin Brauch This will forever be remembered as the year where our community came together. Remember to bid on our incredible Silent Auction procuisine.givesmart.com And this is something truly worth celebrating. ! All proceeds support Providence Healthcare We hope you enjoy a taste from home. — 3 — A note of gratitude... A NOTE note OFof GRATITUDE gratitude... FROM UNITY HEALTH TORONTO FROM PROVIDENCE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION Welcome to the 2020 Cuisine & Cuvée, presented by Welcome to friends new and old, to the first ever Cuisine The Co-operators. We thank you for joining us at this & Cuvée: Digital & Delectable. We are grateful that you special virtual event in support of Providence Healthcare. have chosen to spend the evening with us, albeit virtually, celebrating our 20th anniversary of this premiere event, This year marks the 20th anniversary of Cuisine & Cuvée, presented by The Co-operators. which was established in 2000 to support the strong patients, residents, clients and staff of Providence We hope you are ready for an evening of elegance, Healthcare. Though we cannot celebrate in-person entertainment and indulgence, in support of the strong this year, we know that the night ahead will sustain patients, residents and staff of Providence Healthcare. the legacy and intention of this special event, as it was 2020 has been a year of challenge and change… but it has conceived two decades ago. Whether you’ve been also shown us the true meaning of strength. with us from the beginning or this is your first Cuisine & Cuvée, thank you for your dedication to Providence Strength is our patients who fiercely battle to overcome Healthcare. Your donations are helping our staff and illness and trauma. teams continue to provide compassionate, high-quality Strength is our residents who call Providence home. care to everyone in our community. Strength is our staff who go above and beyond every day, We would also like to extend a profound thank you to providing compassionate care for all those we serve. Providence Healthcare Foundation’s Cuisine & Cuvée Committee Co-Chairs, Brad Bowen and Michael Leal, as Strength is our supporters who stepped up at a time when well as the entire planning committee, for their efforts in we needed it most. organizing this year’s event. It is not easy to take such a While you are enjoying this special edition of Cuisine & large fundraising party and move it online, but the team Cuvée from the comforts of home, you are making a real has done an incredible job. We are extremely fortunate difference for the people in our care. We simply could to have such tremendous people at Providence who not do the work we do at Providence without you, our devote themselves to improving the lives of others. dedicated sponsors, donors, volunteers, staff, guests, Thank you and enjoy! supporters and friends. Thank you for your generosity and continued support. Cheers to a magical night. Andrew Branion Nicole Nakoneshny Dr. Tim Rutledge Colleen Johnston Chair, Providence Interim CEO President & CEO Chair, Board of Directors Healthcare Foundation Providence Healthcare Unity Health Toronto Unity Health Toronto Board of Directors Foundation — 4 — — 5 — EMCEE EXTRAORDINAIRE, KEVIN BRAUCH CHEERS FOR J. LOHR An experienced professional in the radio and television, food At J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines, Kristen Barnhisel brings two and beverage, and hospitality and travel industries, Kevin decades of viticulture and winemaking experience spanning Brauch is a congenial guy who truly works with passion. three continents to her role as winemaker for all white wines. Known for her gifted Kevin is an actor, writer, palate and technical skill, producer and director, Kristen uses her expertise known for hosting with a range of white TVOKids, Canadian wine varieties, styles and Gardening TV, The winemaking methods to Thirsty Traveller, Iron guide J. Lohr’s white wine Chef America, Chef Off, portfolio. Superstar Chef Challenge and the MegaWorld Today, utilizing her science series. He is extensive experience with also a certified celebrity cool-climate white wine bartender and chef. varieties, Kristen works alongside President/COO Brauch is a six-time Jeff Meier and Director of Canadian Gemini Award Winemaking Steve Peck to Nominee and Gemini guide J. Lohr’s white wine Award Winner. While not program. “We are a winery on screen, he spends that values leadership, much of his time engaging experience and a willingness in public and motivational to experiment,” says Jeff. speaking, hosting, “From her work in multiple consulting and teaching. countries and appellations to her leadership role as the current A little known fact President at the American Society for Enology and Viticulture, about Kevin is that he Kristen has shown a career-long commitment to research and is a Kentucky Colonel, an honour bestowed upon him by the experimentation. She is a phenomenal winemaker.” Governor of Kentucky. He can be addressed as Honorable “I am honored and delighted to present two fantastic wines Kevin Brauch or Colonel Kevin Brauch! from J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines at this year’s Cuisine & Cuvée. He’s a fun-loving guy who loves engaging with people and It’s important to me to support Providence Healthcare as it adding to their daily experiences. provides compassionate care for those who need it most in our community. With the unprecedented challenges we are “I can’t wait to reunite and work again with renowned names facing during this pandemic, hospitals and healthcare workers like Chef Susur Lee and J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines for this need as much support as possible to care for their patients. important cause. Raising funds and awareness for Providence I am thrilled that you are joining us for this one-of-a-kind, Healthcare, at such a great and unique event, proves we memorable evening of great food and wine to help such a can’t and won’t be beaten, no matter what stands in our way. worthy cause!” – Kristen Barnhisel Cheers!” – Kevin Brauch — 6 — — 7 — . TheCELEBRITY Main CHEF SUSUREvent. LEE Praised as one of the Ten Chefs of the Millennium by Food & Wine magazine, Susur Lee is at the top of his game. Between helming four restaurants in Toronto — Lee, Luckee, Kid Lee and Lee Kitchen—and overseeing his prestigious TungLok Heen in Singapore, Chef Lee makes numerous television appearances (Iron Chef America, Chopped Canada, Top Chef Chef Lee’s exclusive Cuisine & Cuvée recipe.. Masters, MasterChef Asia, Food Network’s Iron Chef Canada GRILLED KING PRAWNS AND SOBA WITH TONNATO and Wall of Chefs) and travels the globe as a guest chef and SAUCE AND PROSCIUTTO WRAPPED ASPARAGUS consultant. INGREDIENTS METHOD th He was recently named an ambassador to Canada’s 150 4 King Prawns, shelled Soba birthday celebrations and was awarded the Lifetime 6 pieces Asparagus, trimmed 1. Bring a litre of salted water to a boil. Achievement Award by Canada’s 100 Best. In 2019, Chef 6 pieces Prosciutto 2. Cook soba noodles until tender Lee was named the first 1 clove Garlic, minced (approx. 4–5 minutes). tsp Fresh marjoram 3. Toss with basil pesto. foreign chef to be granted ½ ½ tbsp Italian parsley The Red Chefs Hat Award 2 tsp Salt Prosciutto Wrapped Asparagus in Qingdao, China. 1 tsp Pepper 1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. 2 tsp Olive oil 2. Blanch asparagus in salted boiling Balancing the epicurean water (approx. 4 mins.) traditions of China with Tonnato Sauce 3. Shock asparagus in ice water to the classical techniques of 1 80g can Italian tuna packed in oil stop cooking.