Dallas
Public Library, Serails Section:
Payment
for subscriptions to approximately 11 wine related journals, housed
in the Business and Technology Division. Since 1992, approximately $10,000.00 has
been donated to support access to this information by both professionals
and the public.
The
American Institute of Wine and Food, Dallas Chapter Days of Taste Program:
A
program in which elementary school students are introduced to the various
tasting components; taken to the Farmer's Market to meet farmers, to
learn about growing various foods, and to make a salad with items purchased
from a farmer; and to spend time in a restaurant to see how the food
is taken from the farm to the commercial kitchen to the table. The Dallas
Chapter of Les Dames not only contributes funds for this project, but
also provides food manufacturers, women chefs and restaurateurs, and
other professionals who work with the children in the classroom, at
the market, and at the restaurants.
Resource
Center of Dallas:
In support for programs that provide nutritional
guidance and education to HIV patients and their families.
The Wine Library
at El Centro, Dallas County Community Colleges:
More than $12,000 has been given to establish
a multimedia wine library, including shelving.
The
Les Dames d'Escoffier Charitable Endowment Fund of Communities
Foundation of Texas:
To
manage and distribute monies to two funds: The LDEI Charitable Endowment
of $15,000.00 is designed as a permanent fund for grants to benefit
nutritional students at TWU in Denton. The LDEI Charitable Distribution Fund of $21,000.00 is not
a permanent fund. Money has been allocated to the restoration of the
MFK Fisher Last House Project, special projects at El Centro, and $12,000.00
for the year to assist in payment of tuition and books to the Culinary
Institute of America for a promising young woman chef from Dallas.
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