News of SF Dames

Since 2015 San Francisco Dames have participated in special career panels for students at City College San Francisco's Culinary Arts and Hospitality Studies. Thus far, each panel has consisted of three dames, each of whom shares her own career facts and answer questions from the students. The panels have been enthusiastically attended with much interaction from students who want to know how to achieve success in their field.

The program is under the direction of Dame:

Barbara Haimes, Instructor
CCSF-Culinary Arts & Hospitality Studies
50 Phelan Ave. SW 156
San Francisco, CA 94112
p.415.239.3184

Below are links to the first two panels and we hope to have links to the others forthcoming.

http://ccsf.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=5&clip_id=428

First Panel with PATRICIA UNTERMAN, EMILY LUCHETTI & SUZETTE GRESHAM
http://ccsf.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=5&clip_id=507  

Second panel w/ DANA WOLDOW, LAURA BRAININ-RODRIGUEZ & CATHRINE SNEED
She is trying to set up a Youtube channel (has to figure it out).

Following  is the list of completed seminars. This is an ongoing program. Dames who have participated have found it extremely rewarding and great way to help others move ahead.

If interested, contact Jerry Di Vecchio at jerrydivecchio@gmail.com

FEB 20 OR 27, 2015
being a chef/ restaurateur

• SUZETTE GRESHAM
• EMILY LUCHETTI
• PATTY UNTERMAN

March 27, 2015
running a business

• MARSHA MCBRIDE
• MARY GASSEN
• AMARYL SCHWERTNER
  

April 24, 2015
doing public service

• LAURA BRANIN RODRIGUEZ
• DANA WOLDOW
• CATHRINE SNEED

November 6, 2015
from a chef to running a business

• HELEN ROBERTS
• SUE CONLEY

We were short one this meeting

March 11, 2016
where food prepping fits it

• JANET GRIGGS
• TINA SALTER
• SANDY HU

April 22, 2016
on being a chef

• GAYLE PIRIE
• JESSE COOL
• SHELLEY LINDGREN

http://www.sacbee.com/food-drink/food-science/article73157287.html

SF Dames Sue Conley and Peggy Smith of Cowgirl Creamery should be proud! Read this write-up about their company in the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/business/smallbusiness/whole-foods-effect-when-small-food-makers-get-the-call-to-go-big.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&moduleDetail=inside-nyt-region-1&module=inside-nyt-region&region=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region

Marie Simmons says Eugene OR is a great place to live, but she sure misses her Dames.

We’ll have a chance to visit with Marie as she sweeps through the Bay Area with her new book “Whole World Vegetarian.” Everyone gets a hug!

1. May 19 – 6:30 pm. Talk and Tastes & Book Signing. Omnivore Books (owned by SF Dame Celia Sack), 3885 Cesar Chavez Street, SF. For information: www.omnivorebooks.com

2. May 20 – 12:00 noon “Cooks With Books” at Greens Restaurant, A, Fort Mason, 2 Marina Blvd, SF. For information: www.bookpassage.com

3. May 20 – 5:00 pm. Open House/Bring a dish to share. Sue Ewing's Home, 5932 LaSalle, Montclair  CA

Dame Linda Carucci be presenting for the San Francisco Professional Food Society (SFPFS) on Tuesday, May 3 at Ketchum Food Studio in San Francisco. It’s called Seasoning to Taste: An Interactive Guided Tasting Experience and it’s based on a fun program that she developed when she worked at COPIA. This is similar to the program she presented for Friends of the Rockridge Library a couple of years ago. However this May 3 program also includes a buffet dinner featuring her grandmother’s mouthwatering Baked Stuffed Manicotti which will be prepared by her friend Tamara Westerhold of Cherubina Catering in Marin. 

Linda has been a member of the SFPFS for many years. This program is open to dames and their guests. The event hasn’t been announced to members (nor is it live on the SFPFS website) yet, so if you’d like to attend, click here to contact Linda via email so she can follow up with you.

More information at:
http://honey.ucdavis.edu/events/honey-sensory-experience

Outstanding Restaurant, Acquerello, Dame Suzette Gresham

Outstanding Restaurant, Foreign Cinema, Dame Gayle Pirie

Television Program, in Studio or Fixed Location, Jacques Pépin Heart & Soul, Dame Tina Salter

http://www.jamesbeard.org/blog/2016-jbf-restaurant-and-chef-award-semifinalists

Thursday, Jan. 28, 6 - 8 pm

City Arts of San Mateo Gallery
Peninsula Ballet Theatre Building,
1880 South Grant Street
San Mateo

Hors d'oeuvres and wine. More at: 

http://www.cityartsofsanmateo.org/events.htm; http://www.cityartsofsanmateo.org

http://www.mercurynews.com/eat-drink-play/ci_29264609/alameda-master-chef-weezie-mott-cooking-teaching-at?source=rss

Dame Dolores Cakebread, Grand Dame Award in Wines & Vines Magazine, September 2013