{"id":58,"date":"2017-10-29T12:24:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T20:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesdamessacramento.com\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2019-01-30T15:20:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T23:20:40","slug":"about-les-dames-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lesdamessacramento.com\/","title":{"rendered":"About Les Dames d&#8217;Escoffier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ldei.org\/\">Les Dames d\u2019Escoffier\u00a0International<\/a>\u00a0(LDEI) is a worldwide philanthropic society of professional women leaders in the fields of food, fine beverage, and hospitality. The invitation-only membership, composed of 28 individual chapters across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, is highly diversified and reflects the multifaceted fields of contemporary gastronomy and hospitality.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, LDEI developed an ambitious community service program in partnership with the National Gardening Association called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ldei.org\/index.php?com=greentables&amp;action=mission_history_goals\">Green Tables Civic Agriculture and Garden Initiative<\/a>. LDEI chapters\u00a0 volunteer to help a variety of established garden-to-table organizations in their hometowns. Members lend their expertise to teach cooking classes, lead farm tours, and teach at-risk youth kitchen skills among other culinary-related activities.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Sacramento Chapter<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-799 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lesdamessacramento.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/les-dames-board-2018-Oct-Matchbook-photo-OPT-1024x859.jpg\" alt=\"Les Dames Sacramento Board\" width=\"618\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lesdamessacramento.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/les-dames-board-2018-Oct-Matchbook-photo-OPT-1024x859.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lesdamessacramento.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/les-dames-board-2018-Oct-Matchbook-photo-OPT-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lesdamessacramento.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/les-dames-board-2018-Oct-Matchbook-photo-OPT-768x645.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lesdamessacramento.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/les-dames-board-2018-Oct-Matchbook-photo-OPT.jpg 1145w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>The <strong>Les Dames Sacramento Chapter<\/strong> was founded in 2015 to bring the mission of LDEI to the greater Sacramento region. Our purpose has four pillars: education, career advancement, community, and philanthropy.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Education<\/strong>: we aim to further our knowledge and appreciation of culinary arts, agriculture, fine beverages such as wine, spirits, and beer, and hospitality<\/li>\n<li><strong>Career advancement<\/strong>: we promote the education and advancement of, and offer advice and assistance to, women in careers of food, fine beverage, and hospitality<\/li>\n<li><strong>Community<\/strong>: we promote community health and well being through our Green Tables efforts that support the sustainable food movement and local food and agriculture<\/li>\n<li><strong>Philanthropy<\/strong>: we raise scholarship funds for women seeking to further their educations in the fields of culinary arts, agriculture, fine beverage, and hospitality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although our chapter is relatively new, we awarded nearly $5000 in scholarships in 2017-2018 to women for education in local wine, culinary, and agricultural programs. (See our <a href=\"https:\/\/lesdamessacramento.com\/scholarships\/\">Scholarships<\/a> section for information on 2019 scholarships, and our <a href=\"https:\/\/lesdamessacramento.com\/philanthropy\/\">Philanthropy<\/a> section for more information on our philanthropic mission.)<\/p>\n<p>Our 52 <a href=\"https:\/\/lesdamessacramento.com\/member-directory\/\">Sacramento chapter members<\/a> are professionals in the fields of food, wine, and hospitality. We are journalists, entrepreneurs, restauranteurs, farmers, bee-keepers, wine makers, cookbook authors, chefs, caterers, photographers, writers, educators, public relations professionals, bloggers, and community leaders.<\/p>\n<p>We organize events in the Sacramento region in keeping with our stated purpose, including co-organizing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davisfarmtoschool.org\/village-feast\">Davis Village Feast<\/a> which benefits our scholarships as well as the Davis Farm to School Program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Board of Directors<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Amina Harris <em>\u2014<\/em><em>President<\/em><br \/>\nAmy Myrdal Miller <em>\u2014<\/em> <em>1st VP, Member Nominations<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Debbie Arrington<em>\u00a0\u2014 2nd VP<br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Lane Giguiere<em>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Secretary\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Joni Stuart<em>\u00a0\u2014 Treasurer<\/em><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Committee Chairs<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Elise Bauer<em> \u2014 Global Culinary Initiatives; Social Media<\/em><br \/>\nRachael Levine \u2014\u00a0<em>Green Tables<\/em><br \/>\nSue Huffman-Robison\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<em>Scholarship Committee<\/em><br \/>\nDidi Wilson &amp; Liz Mischler\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<em>Programs &amp; Events<\/em><br \/>\nDidi Wilson\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<em>Philanthropy<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Ann Evans\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<i>Immediate Past President;<\/i> <em>Board<\/em>\u00a0<em>Nominations<\/em><br \/>\nDebbie Arrington\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<em>Communications; Social Media <\/em><br \/>\nVicki Revak\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<em>Board Member at Large<\/em><br \/>\nMaryellen Burns\u2014\u00a0<em>Board Member at Large<\/em><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les Dames d\u2019Escoffier\u00a0International\u00a0(LDEI) is a worldwide philanthropic society of professional women leaders in the fields of food, fine beverage, and hospitality. 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