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Cure the Kids with Brainfood

On January 25 th , Chef Kevin Villalovos will be a guest instructor for a local community service organization called Brainfood located at 755 8th St. NW .

Brainfood is a non-profit youth development organization in Washington, DC. Using food as a tool, Brainfood builds life skills and promotes healthy living in a fun and safe environment. Local high school students participate in our programs either twice a week after school or every day for six weeks during the summer.

Activities include hands-on cooking classes, lectures, field trips and community service projects. Brainfood graduates are equipped with practical cooking skills, an introduction to the food industry, a framework for nutritious eating, and leadership experience that prepares them to make a difference in their community.

We have donated food for their classes as well as cooking utensils and we plan to continue giving back to our community in the future.

Currently

The Cure for LOVE

In partnership with DC Destination, Cure will be participating in Date Nights DC: A 28-Day Stimulus Package for Love & Relationships . 

This new promotion plays off the popularity of the Obamas' date nights, the importance of nurturing relationships and the long Valentine's Day/Presidents Day weekend. This promotion was created to drive incremental weekend visitation to the city in February, one of the slowest months of the year. We will feature a three course chef dinner, which includes wine pairings. The guest will also receive a box of Mademoiselle Margaux Cherries soaked in Armagnac, and dipped in dark chocolate. They were created on the site of Chateaux Margaux Vineyards, in France, known for their premier class wines. $47 per person

2-International Wine and Food Festival from February 11-14. 

We are also in the process of printing rail cards for the rooms, which will offer the same promotion.

http://www.wineandfooddc.com/Partners.html

Attached you will find a sample copy of the wine and food festival that the client may present to the server, although it's not required. They may simply say that are part of the festival.

We are here to prove that pairing wine and food is easier than you think! Taste an array of wines paired with our light fare buffet for $12.00. Available 4:30 P.M -7:00 P.M.

We want you to stay after warming up with the tasting, so bring this card and receive a free glass of Moet champagne with any purchase of $35 or more.

Coming up
We will be participating in Spring 2010 Virginia Wine Week: Love by the Glass by offering a great selection of Virginia wines, March 22 through March 28, 2010 promoted by the Virginia Wine Board.

Cure and Brainfood

Brainfood is a non-profit youth development organization in Washington, DC. Using food as a tool, Brainfood builds life skills and promotes healthy living in a fun and safe environment.

Life Lessons Served Hot

After school most days, the basement of Calvary Baptist Church in Chinatown is abuzz with the sounds of vegetables being chopped, recipes being read aloud and young people laughing. Around dinnertime the smell of a fresh-cooked meal begins wafting from the parish kitchen as the high school students pull the results from the oven.

The young people are Washington, D.C., students who have signed up for Brainfood, a nonprofit that specializes in teaching teenagers exemplary kitchen skills.
I keep coming back because I want to be a chef one day, and this is giving me great skills, 16-year-old Jovell Rhock said at a recent cooking class. Before Brainfood, I didn't really cook like I cook now. I just used the microwave.
For the past 10 years, Brainfood has been offering free cooking classes and life lessons to the youngsters. The program directors and coordinators are not chefs, but they are professionals with degrees in youth development. While Brainfood specializes in cooking classes, the larger objective, they said, is to keep kids off the street and give them a safe place to go. Cure will begin helping by providing field trip sites during their summer program where our youth can tour your facility and try some food.
We will also continue to donate food for specific classes classes and Chef Kevin plans to continue to hold classes for the students.