FEMALE CHEFS TO COOK FOR A CAUSE
Five women who are chefs in San Diego County will team up on Sunday evening at Animae restaurant for a charity dinner that will benefit MAKE Projects, a local employment enterprise for refugee and immigrant women and youth. Each chef will create her own dish for the five-course menu. Host chef Tara Monsod (left) of Animae will prepare a tuna crudo dish (above); chef Carmine Lopez of Wolf in the Woods will make a smoked pork belly dish; Claudette Zepeda of Vaga will serve a chile-braised beef shank dish; Marissa Williams of Herb & Sea will make a local rockfish dish with cherry tomato vinaigrette; and Laura Warren of Puffer Malarkey Collective will prepare a strawberry rhubarb tart. 7 to 9:30 p.m. Sunday. Animae, 969 Pacific Highway, San Diego. $220 per person. Reserve at animaesd.com.