At Dim Sum event, top chefs help fight Kennedy’s disease
Chefs from Milwaukee, Chicago and beyond will cook on March 24 in the Third Ward at the annual Dim Sum + Give Some dinner, which raises money to fight Kennedy’s disease.
The dinner will take place at the Italian Community Center, 631 E. Chicago St.
It starts with a cocktail and hors d’oeuvres reception at 6:30 p.m.
The chefs preparing those small bites will be:
Zachary Engel of Galit in Chicago; Paul Zerkel and Lisa Kirkpatrick of Goodkind; Dane Baldwin of The Diplomat; Gregory León of Amilinda; Thomas Hauck of the Lowlands Group; Mitch Ciohon of Snack Boys; Andrew Miller of Third Coast Provisions; and Zak Baker of Ca’Lucchenzo in Wauwatosa.
Engel in 2017 won the James Beard Award for rising star chef of the year, and he was chef de cuisine at Shaya restaurant in New Orleans when it was named the best new restaurant in America in 2016 by the Beard Awards.
Then at 7:30 p.m. is a six-course dinner. The chefs and their courses are:
Daniel Jacobs and Dan Van Rite of Dandan, EsterEv and Fauntleroy, preparing beet and a brussels sprout salad with almonds, tahini, sumac and rye crumble;
Tory Miller of L’Etoile, Graze and Estrellon in Madison, short rib and foie gras mandu with Korean pear, purple daikon, peanuts, chile and black vinegar;
Alex Seidel of Mercantile, Fruition and Chook in Denver, smoked sturgeon with beluga lentils, asparagus and everything spice;
Justin Aprahamian of Sanford, roasted duck breast with brandied pear preserve, celery root and birch vinegar.
Stephanie Izard of Girl & the Goat, Little Goat Diner, Duck Duck Goat, and Cabra Cevicheria in Chicago, Montamore ice cream with a “Ritz,” Gjetost caramel and pickle relish;
and Adam Siegel of Bartolotta Restaurants, Valrhona chocolate mousse with amarena cherry, candied orange and saffron ice cream.
Seidel, Miller, Izard, Siegel and Aprahamian all have won James Beard awards as the best chefs in their regions.
Tickets are $175 a person or $1,200 for a table of eight, and they’re available at exploretock.com/dimsumgivesome.
The dinner is organized by chefs Jacobs and Van Rite. Jacobs was diagnosed in 2016 with Kennedy’s disease, an inherited, progressive neuromuscular disease.
A second Dim Sum + Give Some event, more of a cocktail-party style food fest with stations, will take place on June 21.
So far, the events — one dinner and three food fests — have raised $85,000 for the Kennedy’s Disease Association.
Carol Deptolla has been reviewing restaurants in Milwaukee and Wisconsin since 2008. She visits restaurants — unannounced — several times to better evaluate food and service and usually brings other diners to sample the menu widely. Like all Journal Sentinel reporters, she buys all meals, accepts no gifts and is independent of all establishments she covers, working only for our readers.
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