On
Monday, March 8, 2010, Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) and Ted
Allen of Food Network’s Chopped hosted Savor, GMHC’s annual culinary
fundraiser at Gotham Hall. The glamorous evening began with cocktails
and a silent auction, followed by a decadent four-course dinner and Passing
the Whisk: a fast-paced, culinary relay featuring the star-chef judges
from Food Network’s Chopped. Participating chefs included: Amanda
Freitag of The Harrison, Alex
Guarnaschelli of Butter, Marc
Murphy of
Landmarc, Aaron Sanchez of Paladar, Chris
Santos of Stanton Social and
Geoffrey Zakarian of The Lambs Club.
Some of New York’s most high-profile
names in theatre, philanthropy and the culinary world stepped out to
support the evening’s honorees and long-time GMHC supporters, Dr.
Yvette C. Burton, Senior Global Business Development Executive for IBM,
and philanthropist and theatrical producer, Ted
Snowdon, for their ongoing
dedication to the fight against HIV/AIDS.
More than 480 guests attended
raising nearly $500,000 in support of GMHC’s care services, HIV
prevention, and advocacy efforts including its Meals Program which addresses
hunger by providing warm meals, nutrition counseling, and a food pantry
to thousands of low-income New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS every
year. At the end of the night, guests received a Savor cookbook, which
included recipes from the evening’s chefs and other GMHC supporters
including: Bethenny Frankel, Tim Gunn, Liz Smith and Joan
Tisch.
Attendees
included: Dr. Marjorie Hill, GMHC’s CEO, Yvette
Burton, Ted Snowdon, Ted Allen, Amanda Freitag, Alex Guarnaschelli, Marc
Murphy, Aaron Sanchez, Chris Santos, Anita Jaffe, Jean Doumanian, Jerry
and Mary Frankel, Leslie F. Pomerantz, Charlotte Moore,
Urvashi Vaid and Kate Clinton, Emily Tisch-Sussman, Robert Tuschman,
Bruce Seidel, Dana Tyler, Felicia Taylor, Tim Gill, Evan Wolfson, Bronson
Van Wyck, Andrew Fry, Emma Snowdon Jones, Georgette Farkas, Kipton Cronkite,
Catherine Moellering, Scott Frankel and Jim Joseph, Reid Williams,
John Knott, Christian Leone, Andrew Sedlock, Christopher Spitzmiller.
