From Rachel Nania. Check out her blog, Sear, Simmer & Stir. Follow Nania on Twitter @rnania, email her at rachel[AT]borderstan.com. DC's fifth annual two-day celebration of food and drink will take place January 26 and 27. Hosted by José Andrés, Joan Nathan and Alice Waters, Sips & Suppers, which has raised over $500,000 since its inception, benefits Martha’s Table and DC Central Kitchen (DCCK).
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Sips will be held at the Newseum on Saturday, January 26 at 7 pm. The evening will feature a sampling from the local area’s finest food artisans, mixologists and wineries, including wine from Loudon County, beer from ChurchKey and cocktails from Buffalo & Bergen. Additionally, there will be live jazz and live cooking demonstrations. Tickets are $95 and can be purchased online. For a list of full participating artisans, visit the website. Suppers will take place on Sunday evening, January 27, and will be held in 26 private homes across the DC area. For the event, local and internationally renowned chefs come together to prepare multi-course meals and carefully selected wine for small groups in each home. This year’s Suppers include a Chinese New Year feast by Chefs Scott Drewno of The Source by Wolfgang Puck and Erik Bruner Yang of Toki Underground, an Icelandic dinner with Chefs Siggi Hall of Siggi Hall Restaurant in Reykjavik and Jeff Buben of Vidalia and a kosher Greek and Spanish-style meal by Chefs Mike Isabella of Graffiato, Bandolero and the upcoming Kapnos and G and Victor Albisu of the upcoming Taco Bamba and Del Campo. Tickets to Suppers are $550 per person, and can be purchased online. Get an RSS Feed for all Borderstan stories or subscribe to Borderstan’s daily email newsletter.The post Sips & Suppers: A Celebrity Chef Benefit for Martha’s Table and DCCK appeared first on Borderstan.
