Giada de Laurentiis for Giadzy, photo: Ray Kachatorian.
STIRRING THE POT WITH FLORENCE FABRICANT:
GIADA DE LAURENTIIS
TICKETS $35 ($31.50 FOR MEMBERS)
Florence is delighted to welcome chef + restaurateur, Giada De Laurentiis, Emmy award-winning TV personality, New York Times best-selling author, and founder of Giadzy, to Stirring the Pot. A frequent visitor to the Hamptons, this vivacious, globally revered celebrity chef will discuss her career, especially Giadzy, her line of Italian products just coming to market, including olive oils, pasta, sauces, condiments, and sweets, some with her label and others selected by her, now sold online. She will discuss her selections and how she cooks with them, as well as talk about her Las Vegas and Scottsdale restaurants, Giada.
Attendees will receive a special code to redeem a free box of pasta on Giadzy.com.
Attendees are invited to arrive at 10 AM for a breakfast by provided by Citarella.
Our neighbor and sponsor invite you to head over to LDV at the Maidstone for a traditional summer clambake in the garden.
Sunday, August 4th, 3-9 PM
$120, plus tax & gratuity
$120, plus tax & gratuity
Tickets include a welcome glass of rose from the Wölffer Estate wine truck and a menu featuring oysters, lobster, clams, shrimp, sausage, corn, potatoes, coleslaw, fruit, and dessert. After dinner, enjoy a complimentary cigar from Civil Pleasures, who will be popping up in the back garden.
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Florence Fabricant
Florence Fabricant, a food and wine writer for the New York Times, contributes the weekly Front Burner and Off the Menu columns, is a member of the wine panel and writes the pairings column for the wine tastings. She frequently writes features that appear in the Food section and also covers food and travel elsewhere in the Times. She has written 13 cookbooks. This spring, her latest, The Ladies Village Improvement Society Cookbook: Eating and Entertaining in East Hampton" to celebrate the 125th anniversary of LVIS was published by Rizzoli. Other books include Wine with Food, based on the New York Times pairings columns and written with Eric Asimov and The City Harvest Cookbook, both published by Rizzoli. She actually began her career as a food writer in East Hampton, contributing the column In Season to the East Hampton Star. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Smith College, she has an M.A. in French from New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She holds L’Ordre National du Mérite from the French government, is on the Board of Trustees of Guild Hall in East Hampton, N.Y., and is a member of Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America. (New York, NY). She and her husband, Richard, a retired lawyer, live in Manhattan and East Hampton, N.Y. They have two children and two grandchildren.
Sponsors
Lead Sponsor: Ciuffo Cabinetry
Supporting Sponsor: Citarella
Additional Support: LDV
Media Partner: Purist
Performing Arts programming is supported in part by funding from The Melville Straus Family Endowment, and Monica and Peter Tessler. Music Programming is supported in part by The Ellen and James S. Marcus Endowment for Musical Programming.
Additional support provided by Friends of the Theater: John and Joan D’Addario, Gabrielle and Gianpaolo de Felice, Ezriel Kornel, Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan, Michèle and Steve Pesner, The Schaffner Family Foundation, Jayne Baron Sherman and Deborah Zum, Straus Family Foundation, and Susi and Peter Wunsch
