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Dame Tina Salter producer for Jacques Pepin's  Essential Pepin, received an IACP award for best TV series

SF Dames Janet Fletcher and Dolores Cakebread received an IACP 2012 Award for their book compilations: The Cakebread Cellars American Harvest Cookbook (Authors: Jack & Dolores Cakebread, Brian Streeter, Janet Fletcher; Publisher: Ten Speed Press)

------------Congratulations to our talented Dames!

Dame Alice Medrich announces her new video course on Caftsy.com, a site dedicated to crafts like knitting, crochet, quilting. The site is now getting into food in a serious way and Alice is one of the first culinary teachers for them. Peter Reinhardt will offer a course on the site soon as well as the lovely and so very talented Rachel Saunders of Blue Chair Jams. If you or anyone you know would like to learn some of my all time classic desserts and techniques (chocolate ruffles, marbled glaze, etc. etc.) in the comfort of your kitchen or office (even wearing your jammies) take a look! It's interactive and fun and a pretty good deal too. Here is the link: http://www.craftsy.com/class/Decadent-Chocolate-Cakes/64

Dame Jeannette Ferrary is teaching a 5 session evening food writing course at Stanford  (Food Writing: from Inspiration to Publication) which includes: restaurant reviewing; magazine and newspaper articles; the blogosphere; query letters; cookbooks; memoir; culinary literature, history, and research; food-related organizations; finding literary agents and publishers; the option of pursuing your own project; and how to market your work. Participants receive personal feedback on all work. This course meets on-campus Tuesdays April 3- May 1 and is available for credit (optional). For more see : https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/courses/course.php?cid=20113_EGL+243

Dame Toni Allegra announces that The Symposium for Professional Food Writers is looking forward to a new beginning and is in search of a new home base where food writers, agents, editors, photographers, publishers will continue meeting in the extraordinary, encouraging manner that has been the program over 21 years. Over the years, more than 200 books, articles, blogs and other published food writing has been published.  Feel free to share ideas of quiet locations that allow space and time to concentrate, to write, to dream. To add to list: antonia@fcs.net.

Dame Dana Woldow announces that PEACHSF's entry has been awarded first prize in the USDA's MyPlate Fruits & Veggies Video Challenge. Their video, entitled "On the Go Snack Boxes", features a San Francisco middle school student describing the healthy snacks she and her mom put together which fit easily into her backpack and her busy day. The video was produced and directed by PEACHSF social media specialist Max Schreiber, and written by PEACHSF team leader Dana Woldow.  Watch our video and all other winning entries here: http://fruitsandveggies.challenge.gov/

PEACHSF is Parents, Educators & Advocates Connection for Healthy School Food. We are parents, teachers, school administrators, healthcare professionals, and advocates for better school food in San Francisco. Since 2002, we’ve worked together to improve food in our public school cafeterias, vending machines, classroom parties and fundraising sales, and we want to share what we’ve learned along the way with others trying to make changes in their own communities. Visit us at peachsf.org.

Article by Dame Tanya Holland about her location for Brown Sugar Kitchen http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tanya-holland/brown-sugar-kitchen_b_935444.html