Some of Phoenix’s Finest Female Chefs Are Gathering to Discuss Desert Food Dynamics
Dame Tamara Stanger will speak about desert foraging and how to identify, dry, and cook cholla buds. Chris Malloy
This Sunday, the Phoenix chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier (LDE) will present Talks With Desert Dames — an online event packed with some award-winning Valley chefs and mixologists discussing food strategies in the desert.
Seven women from Phoenix’s culinary scene, called Dames for this event, will take the virtual stage. Here’s a quick overview of what the Dames have lined up.
— Dame Candy Lesher, former host of Food & Life Television and editor-in-chief of Food & Life Magazine, will talk about how to cook tepary beans.
— Dame Danielle Leoni, a James Beard Award nominee, chef and co-owner of The Breadfruit and Rum Bar, and champion of sustainability, will talk about shrimp farming in the desert.
This story originally written by Bahar Anooshahr, and can be read in its entirety at Phoenix New Times.