17TH ANNUAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY TASTE OF THE NATION
Featuring Area Restaurants, Food Purveyors, & Wine & Spirit Brands
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
JOIN US IN THE FIGHT TO END HUNGER
100% of ticket revenue will go directly to Fairfield County Food Banks and Shelters
| Location: | The Italian Center of Stamford, 1620 Newfield Avenue, Stamford, CT |
| Time: | 6:00 – 9:00 PM Taste of the Nation (Main Ballroom) Chefs from the best restaurants in Fairfield County prepare their signature dishes. Plus, samples from top wine producers, brew masters, pastry chefs, and caterers. Silent Auction! |
| Ticket Price: | $75 per person ($85 at the door) – Group incentives available |
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Fairfield County’s Taste of the Nation is a premier tasting event that features the area’s finest restaurants and purveyors sharing their best foods and wines. Each year, hundreds of food and wine enthusiasts and industry professionals throughout Fairfield County join together to raise critical resources for Share Our Strength’s fight to end hunger. Share Our Strength is the nation’s leading anti-hunger, anti-poverty organization. As evidence to the thriving restaurant scene in Fairfield County, Taste of the Nation continues to produce the area’s most exciting food and wine show benefit.
For $75 guests are able to indulge in an array of foods from around the world including a little spice from Thali, Spanish fare at Meigas, Italian specialties from Trattoria Carl Anthony, fresh seafood prepared by f.i.s.h., French bistro from Restaurant Jean-Louis, southern barbeque smoked by Bobby Q’s, and much, much more! Enjoy these fabulous dishes with your favorite wines, some new ones, or a specialty cocktail. With so many generous participants joining in the excitement, making your way through the room and experiencing them all is fun and easy.
Photos from Last Year's Event - click on photo to enlarge
About Share Our Strength
Share Our Strength, one of the nation’s leading anti-hunger, anti-poverty organizations, meets immediate demands for food while investing in organizations that have a proven track record of success and whose work actually attacks the root of the hunger problem. For information about events happening nationwide or to purchase tickets, please call (800) 955-TASTE or visit http://www.strength.org.
About Taste of the Nation
Taste of the Nation®, presented by American Express, a project of Share Our Strength, is the nation's preeminent culinary benefit supporting the fight to end hunger. Each spring, more than 10,000 individuals, from chefs and restaurateurs to public relations professionals and accountants, come together in more than 65 cities across the United States and Canada to organize one-of-a-kind culinary events. The events, which include food and wine tastings, seated dinners, brunches and barbeques, host more than 60,000 attendees annually.