Les
Dames d'Escoffier,
Ann Arbor
Founded
2015
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base in Ann Arbor, The Ann
Arbor City Club
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Les
Dames d'Escoffier is the only
organization of its kind: a
world-wide philanthropic
society of professional women
leaders in the fields of food,
fine beverage, and
hospitality.
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KUDZU PROJECT, AN ANN
ARBOR CHAPTER 'GREEN TABLES' PROJECT
(Link
to LDEI Green Tables Handbook)
- Work is
underway to recruit more new
LDEAA members with interests
in the Kudzu Project, from
both near and far: in
Kudzu country (where it is a
prevalent overgrown pest) or
in emergent Kudzu country
(where it might be handled as
it emerges so it does not
become an overgrown CO2
producing pest).
- Recent attendance
at a zoom meeting with Chicago
Foodways that presented a
meeting with a food forager,
restaurateur, Michelin star
chef, who lives part of
the year in the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan, where
she has a food-foraging
B&B, and part of the year
in Chicago.
- Recent brief
(less than 200 word) summary
of the Table Talk event hosted
by LDEI submitted to The
Quarterly of LDEI.
- LDEI 3rd Annual
Table
Talks Events, Kudzu
Kickoff, March 26 zoom meeting.
- Link
to Instagram Reel of Kudzu
Kickoff 2 on May 7, 2023,
focused on a local project.
- Link
to Instagram Reel of Kudzu
Kickoff on March 26, 2023.
- Link
to associated materials (pdf)
- Link
to Zoom meeting (mp4)
- Link
to archived material in
persistent digital archive,
University of Michigan
- Associated
articles on the topic are
forthcoming
- Links to future
movie files dealing with kudzu
will evolve to correspond with
the natural seasonal development
of kudzu in East Central
Mississippi, where the aquifer
is clean (no PFAs).
- Continue to
develop an association with
nationwide partners who might be
interested in creating their own
special projects on related
topics. A fine example
involves our Affiliate, Bill
Arlinghaus, and under his local
leadership, the kudzu team at
the Brickhaus Brewtique in
Meridian, MS.
We welcome
participation from anyone who is
interested.
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MEET OUR DAMES!
SEE THE 'ARCHIVE' OR 'EVENTS' PAGE FOR
MORE!
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ARBOR?
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THEIR BUSINESSES AND ACTIVITIES
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ADDED? PLEASE CONTACT WEBMASTER,
SANDY (sarhaus@umich.edu)

LDE-AA is a Member
Club of the Ann
Arbor City Club,
centrally located
within Ann Arbor
with ample free
parking and
provision for valet
parking, catering,
and room rental for
special events.
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Les
Dames
d'Escoffier
International,
www.LDEI.org,
home page.
Les Dames
d'Escoffier
International
(LDEI) is an
invitation-only
membership,
composed of over
40 individual
chapters from
around the world;
it is highly
diversified and
reflects the
multifaceted
fields of
contemporary
gastronomy and
hospitality. For
full information
about LDEI please
see their website;
our local website
is simply a small
addition to this
primary website of
our parent
organization.
- Mission
Statement of
Les Dames
d'Escoffier
International
(LDEI)
LDEI
is an
invitational
organization
of women
leaders in
food,
beverage, and
hospitality
whose mission
is education
and
philanthropy.
Les Dames
d'Escoffier--Ann
Arbor (LDE-)AA is a
non-profit 501(c)(3)
corporation in the
State of Michigan.
- Mission
Statement of
Les Dames
d'Escoffier--Ann
Arbor (LDE-AA)
The
Ann Arbor
Chapter,
LDE-AA
supports the
broad mission
of LDEI with a
diverse group
of
professional
talent and
experience.
We are focused
on developing
scholarships
and
educational
opportunities
for women
seeking
professional
expertise in
the food, fine
beverage, and
hospitality
fields,
especially the
emerging
movements of
the
environment,
health, and
local
resourcing in
those
professions in
our
multi-cultural
community.
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Copyright
2015--present, Les Dames
d' Escoffier Ann Arbor.
Image credits:
Floral images, Alma S.
Lach, copyright 1998, and
Sandra Lach Arlinghaus.
Burgundy/green LDE
logo created by Alma Lach
for the Chicago Chapter
(of which she was an
original first-year
member) and used here with
their permission.
LDEI logo used here, in
both original and modified
form, with LDEI
permission. Photo
of the Ann Arbor City Club
reprinted here with
permission of the
copyright holder.
Globe image, Google
Earth (TM).
WHAT
DID WE MISS?
PLEASE LET US KNOW!
WEBMASTER:
sarhaus@umich.edu
LDEI
Quarterly Submission
Guidelines are
available in the
Quarterly itself
and on the LDEI
website.
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