{"id":3527,"date":"2019-04-30T16:49:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T16:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccapinc.org\/?p=3527"},"modified":"2021-06-07T20:21:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T20:21:01","slug":"las-full-circle-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccapinc.org\/news\/las-full-circle-benefit\/","title":{"rendered":"LA’s Full Circle Benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Careers through Culinary Arts Program\u2019s\u00a0second annual\u00a0Full Circle Dinner Benefit\"\" took place on April 25 at Los Angeles\u2019 Redbird. It\u2019s called \u201cfull circle\u201d because its chefs mentor young high school students, who develop work and life skills and then often become successful chefs themselves, some now coming full circle to assist in the preparation of the event. View photos here<\/a>, generously donated by Fred Martin.<\/p>\n

\"\"Guests were greeted with a cocktail reception featuring downtown LA\u2019s own Greenbar Distillery Tequila plus Fords Gin cocktails, created by Anthony Greco and Alex Kitzmann. Delicious bites from Chefs Monti Carlo, Josiah Citrin, Duff Goldman, Neal Fraser, and Dustin Trani were served.<\/p>\n

Chef Neal Fraser hosted the multi-course seated dinner with participating celebrity chefs, featuring a spring bean salad, steamed Alaskan salmon, rib cap and pastrami short ribs, and chocolate chess pie. Premium wines from Hitching Post and No. 1 Family Estate as well as craft beer from local El Segundo Brewing Company were paired with each course.<\/p>\n

The silent and live auction, with guest emcee and auctioneer Billy Harris, was a big hit. The two dinners with chefs brought in $8,000 each, and the event earned more than $65,000, with checks still coming in, to support C-CAP\u2019s career readiness programs for underserved high school students in Southern California.<\/p>\n

\"\"C-CAP\u2019s Program Director Lisa Fontanesi and Chef Neal gave KFI radio\u2019s Fork Report program all the details. You can listen to it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dinner was prepared by guest celebrity chefs: Monti Carlo, a Food Network\u00a0personality;\u00a0Josiah Citrin\u00a0of Openaire\u00a0and\u00a0Charcoal Venice; Sandra Cordero of Gasolina;\u00a0Duff Goldman of Charm City Cakes; C-CAP alum Anthony Greco of Lukshon\u00a0and\u00a0Father\u2019s Office;\u00a0Kyle Johnson\u00a0of Bourbon Steak; Alex Kitzmann of Catch LA; Antonia Lofaso\u00a0of Scopa,\u00a0Black Market,\u00a0and\u00a0DAMA; Nicole Rucker of Fiona; and C-CAP alum\u00a0Dustin Trani\u00a0of J. Trani\u2019s Ristorante.<\/p>\n

C-CAP Council LA\u2019s chairperson, Barbara Fairchild (former editor-in-chief of Bon Appetit<\/em> magazine) talks about her involvement with C-CAP and the benefit in this SoCal Restaurant Show podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Careers through Culinary Arts Program\u2019s\u00a0second annual\u00a0Full Circle Dinner Benefit took place on April 25 at Los Angeles\u2019 Redbird. It\u2019s called \u201cfull circle\u201d because its chefs mentor young high school…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":3590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[388,421,389,343,412,407,402],"class_list":["post-3527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-c-cap-los-angeles","tag-c-cap-students","tag-celebrity-chefs","tag-full-circle-benefit","tag-la-restaurants","tag-restaurants","tag-student-chefs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccapinc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccapinc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccapinc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccapinc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccapinc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ccapinc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36802,"href":"https:\/\/ccapinc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions\/36802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccapinc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccapinc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccapinc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccapinc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}