Unity Design

Great day foraging with LDEI Cleveland Dames and Jeremy Umansky

Our friend and colleague, the multi-talented Bev Shaffer just won this prestigious international lifetime achievement award. Grande Dame! She is among Carolyn Wente, Lidia Bastianich, Dolores Cakebread, and Julia Child to name a few. Congratulations Bev!!!

Food for thought!

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A FOUR pound apple pie? That's right! Get yours from Mama Jo Homestyle Pies . LDEI has your gift cards for the best pie deal around. Go to
http://cleveland.ldei.org/fundraiser.html

Shop OUT OF THE BOX – unique local CLE-centric culinary boxes and experiences for immediate sale and auction bidding, All for charity going to grants and scholarships! Les Dames d'Escoffier Cleveland Chapter http://www.cleveland.ldei.org/fundraiser.html

SHOP SMALL ... SHOP LOCAL ... and SHOP CYBERSPACE with Les. Dames CLE. This LOCAL BREAKFAST BOX is one of many items for sale in our fundraiser at http://cleveland.ldei.org/fundraiser.html.

It includes a 12 oz. box of Solstice Roasters Rwanda Coffee, two 2 oz bags of Pat's Granola and a jar of Dame Beth Schreibman-Gehring’s Rose Petal and Cranberry Jam.

Check out today's additions.

Just launched... Andy Kubiszewski's new project with vocalist Andrea Becker, DISCOTHÈQUE. Sweet synth work (of course) and gorgeous vox. Really enjoyed working with them on everything over the past several months. Check out their site and listen on bandcamp...
https://www.discothequeband.com/
https://discothequeband.bandcamp.com/

DISCOTHÈQUE, by Discothèque 5 track album

Proud to be a part of this with Cookie Cupboard and Dawn Foods! $5000 to charity for The Metanoia Project based on our “Baking Their Day a Little Better” campaign!

We’re a winner! National Donut Day, Friday June 5
Cookie Cupboard is a proud winner of Dawn Foods ! As a winner, we received a $5000 charity-of-our-choice check. We are honored to support The Metanoia Project, a Cleveland-based non-profit that shelters the homeless, and helps them seek permanent housing and jobs.

We won based on our “Baking Their Day a Little Better” campaign – making cookies for direct donation to food banks in order to bring those in need a little something sweet. Now we get to make an even bigger impact with this donation. Thank you Dawn Foods! We are so grateful!

A CLE winner! Congratulations Destiny Burns of CLE Urban Winery

Cleveland, We Have a Winner! CLE Urban Winery founder Destiny Burns wins Legacy Award from Les Dames d'Escoffier Int'l (LDEI) and will be mentored by Wente Vineyards Estate Winery! Read more: http://www.cleveland.ldei.org/blog.html

So pleased to meet the 2020 Legacy Award winners, and thrilled that we have a among them! Destiny Burns, founder/owner of CLE Urban Winery in Cleveland, OH, awarded the & Hospitality Award from Wente Vineyards Estate Winery in Livermore, CA.

The 2020 Legacy Awards Committee is thrilled to announce the six wonderful, accomplished women — all up-and-comers in the hospitality industry — who have been selected as the 2020 LDEI Legacy Awards winners. Despite the current uncertainty amid the COVID-19 pandemic, these women provide a beacon of hope that our industry will not only survive but thrive.

WINE AWARD: Wente Family Estates Wine & Hospitality Award Winner
Destiny Burns, Cleveland, OH

Destiny is a Cleveland girl born and bred. After high school, she enlisted in the U.S. Navy as a Russian Linguist to see the world. 20 years later, she retired as a Cryptologic Officer and began a second career as a defense industry executive. Upon turning 50, newly divorced after a 26 year marriage and with one adult daughter fully launched, she moved back to Cleveland to open a “craft brewery style” urban winery in a 1920’s era auto repair garage in her neighborhood. Her dream of “Good Wine Made Fun that Celebrates Cleveland and Creates Community” is now a reality!

Celebrating 20 Years of Unity Design today! Special thanks to some of those who really helped me begin this venture - Kathy Mcconaughy, Beth Ross Yurich, Michael Roach, Sheila Weil, Joseph DeLuca Thank you!

Fabulous teas with healing and immunity-boosting properties. A great way to promote and maintain health right now!

Attention Clevelanders: If you know -- or are! -- a young woman in the food, fine beverage or hospitality industries, it's time again to apply for the annual Legacy Awards, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be mentored by some of the top women in the biz. Read all about it here, share, and apply!

Les Dames d'Escoffier International Partners with the Julia Child Foundation To Offer Six Unique Culinary Mentorship Experiences /PRNewswire/ -- Les Dames d'Escoffier International (LDEI) and the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and Culinary Arts have partnered for the ninth year to...