Joanne Weir Benefit Events: Private Dinner & Cooking Demonstration – JOIN US!
As part of its BIG IDEA project At the Table: Kitchen as Home, Sun Valley Center for the Arts (SVCA) is excited to welcome award-winning professional chef and cookbook author Joanne Weir. In addition to Weir’s SOLD OUT museum talk “Plates, Places and Stories from My Family Kitchen,” (Saturday, Feb 23, 4pm at The Center, Ketchum), SVCA is offering two more events – a private dinner and cooking demonstration – that make the most of her time in the Wood River Valley. Both are fundraisers for The Center. (The Center is currently accepting names for a waitlist for the sold out museum talk).
Dinner with Joanne Weir
Friday, Feb. 22, 7 p.m., Zinc Restaurant, Ketchum
$350 per person
Joanne Weir will preside over a specially designed private dinner in an intimate setting for 40 guests. To kick off the evening, Weir will meet guests at a pre-dinner reception where each party will receive a copy of her cookbook. She will then host the dinner, sharing stories and recollections along the way. This is a unique dining experience that’s not to be missed!
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Dinner with Joanne Weir & Cooking Demonstration
Saturday, Feb. 23, noon, location to be announced
$550 per person
In addition to the private dinner on Friday evening, this ticket includes a cooking demonstration and light lunch for an intimate group with Joanne at a private home. The cooking demonstration is only available as a package with the Feb. 22 dinner and cannot be purchased separately.
TO BUY THE DINNER & DEMO TICKET PACKAGE please call us at 208-726-9491.
In anticipation of her visit to the Wood River Valley Joanne Weir said, “I’m excited to be back in Sun Valley. I’ve visited a few times and loved it. This time will be even more special since I will be talking about my family’s table. Growing up in a food family, the table has always held great significance and continues to be an important place to me. It’s here that we really take time to talk to one another, share our day and our thoughts without distraction. It will be fun to reminisce, share stories and hear your stories of memories made at the table.”
To register for the lecture waitlist or to purchase tickets for the Feb. 22 Dinner with Joanne Weir (either with or without the Feb. 23 cooking demonstration), visit www.sunvalleycenter.org or call the box office at 208.726.9491.
About Joanne Weir:
A fourth-generation professional cook, Joanne Weir spent five years cooking at Chez Panisse after receiving a Master Chef Diploma with renowned French chef, teacher and restauranteur Madeleine Kamman. Weir is a James Beard award-winning cookbook author and teaches cooking classes in the U.S. and around the world. She is the host and Executive Producer of several award-winning television series, including “Joanne Weir Gets Fresh” and her brand-new series, “Joanne Weir’s Plates & Places,” which began airing in February 2018. Weir has written 18 cookbooks, including her most recent memoir, “Kitchen Gypsy: Stories and Recipes from a Lifetime Romance with Food.” She is co-owner of Copita, modern Mexican restaurant and tequileria in Sausalito, California. In 2012, Weir was appointed by the U.S. State Department to the American Chef Corps, a select group of chefs chosen to promote world relations through food. She also writes for numerous publications, including Sunset magazine, Cooking Light, Better Homes and Gardens, Fine Cooking and Food & Wine. Tickets for Weir’s lecture are $10 for members of The Center and $12 for nonmembers.
Artistic Director Kristen Poole said, “Joanne Weir knows deeply how food connects people to each other and to memory. Not only is she is a James Beard award winner but she was appointed by the State Department to use her skills as a chef to assist in world relations. Her dinner and her museum talk are a perfect match for The Center’s current BIG IDEA project At the Table: Kitchen as Home.”