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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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