DC Women Food Entrepreneurs offer Holiday Market - Gift Baskets & Chef Dinners

 

 

Women-owned businesses participating include:  Ben’s Chili Bowl, Brookland’s Finest, Centrolina, Cork Wine Bar, Equinox Restaurant, Hank & Mitzi's Italian Kitchen, Ice Cream Jubilee, Letena Ethiopian Restaurant, Maydan, Pizzeria Paradiso, Ris, Sloppy Mamas, Sticky Fingers Sweets & Eats, Taqueria Nacional, Teaism and The District Fishwife.

 

Several women chefs have collaborated to create four-course dinners, priced at $90 for two persons, that may be enjoyed at home. These dinners are being offered for pick-up or delivery on Friday December 11, Saturday December 12, Friday December 18 and Saturday December 19. A lavish Italian dinner is being prepared by Chefs Amy Brandwein and Caitlin Dysart, Centrolina; Ruth Gresser, Pizzeria Paradiso; and Jamie Leeds, Hank & Mitzi’s Italian Kitchen.

 

A seafood feast dinner is being crafted by Ris Lacoste, RIS; Ann Cashion, Taqueria Nacional; Fiona Lewis, District Fishwife and Ellen Kassoff, Equinox Restaurant. All dinners may be ordered with wines and cocktails.

 

Culinary gift baskets, priced at $100, will be filled with an assortment of food and beverage treats from many DC area women-owned fooderies. 

 

Orders may be placed at:  https://www.exploretock.com/letstalkdc

 

The holiday effort, coordinated by Diane Gross of Cork Wine  Bar,  follows the fall launch of The Women’s Food Fest organized by Ruth Gresser (Pizzeria Paradiso), Fiona Lewis (The District Fishwife, On Toast) and Micheline Mendelsohn (Good Stuff Eatery, We, The Pizza, Santa Rosa Taqueria)  who brought together the dozens of women in the area who have made their careers in the food industry.​ The Women's Food Fest is led by the DC chapter of the James Beard Foundation Let’s Talk forum, to which many DC-area  women restaurateurs belong.

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A full list of participating women food entrepreneurs: www.womensfoodfest.com

 

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Antipasti - Italian Cheeses & Cured Meats, Broccoli Rabe & Cannelini Beans with Toasts, Olives, Pickled Carrots & Onions

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Pasta - Pumpkin & Burrata Raviolini in Sage Butter, Amaretti Cookie

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Main - Savory Herb Rubbed & Slow Roasted Pork Belly with Warm Potato & Kale Salad and Fennel Pickles

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Dessert - Butterscotch Budino, Apple Compote, Salted Caramel & Cinnamon Crostini

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Wine Add on Options from Italian Woman Winemakers $35:

White - La Colombera Timorasso Il Montino (Elisa Semino)

Red - Foradori Teroldego

(Elisabetta Foradori)

 

 

Smoked Salmon Rillettes and Deviled Eggs 

pickled vegetables, fennel crisps, celery hearts, cornichons

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Mexican Sopa de Pescado

shrimp, fish, chilies and herbs

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Chilean Sea Bass Wellington 

Chilean sea bass (NZ), prosciutto, sage, parmesan and puff pastry, frisee salad with roasted winter squash and citrus vinaigrette.

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Warm Banana Caramel Bread Pudding

bruleed bananas, crispy honey tuile, milk chocolate sauce

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Cellar Choice of Red or White: $35

 

 

Walnut Biscotti

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Organic Earl Grey Tea and Ginger Scone Mix

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Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

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Best Loved Plant Based Recipes in Decorative Box

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Cranberry Orange Bread

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Baklava Mini Box

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Oatmeal Cream Pie

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Ice Cream Sundae Toppings 

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Pares Balta, Cava NV

 

 

Original Half Smoke Pack

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Marinated Olives

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Hog Smoker Packet (two BBQ sauces and spice rub)

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Infused Organic Olive Oil Dip

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Brookland’s Finest Pasta Sauce

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Home-made Pasta

by Jamie Leeds, Hank & Mitzi’s Italian Kitchen

“Eye” gift bag made by Syrian refugees with Maydan Recipes

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La Giaretta, Valpolicella ‘Volpare'