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A Toast with Tim Love w r i tt e n b y St. David’s Foundation
n Thursday, April 18th, twenty-five guests
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gathered at the hillside home of C3’s Charlie Jones for a St. David’s Foundation Toast of the Town party celebrating the
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cuisine of celebrity chef Tim Love, owner
of Fort Worth’s critically acclaimed Lonesome Dove Western Bistro and The Love Shack. With a spectacular Austin sunset serving as the backdrop for the evening, Chef Love gave guests a preview of his Austin Food & Wine Festival fare with a multi-course dinner with wine pairings by Whole Foods Market’s Master Sommelier Devon Broglie followed by dessert prepared by Uchi’s renowned pastry chef Phillip Speer. Charlie and Melanie Jones, along with their co-host for
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the evening, La Condesa and Sway owner Jesse Herman, hosted tables while Chef Love and his team of C3 staffoutfitted as servers-prepared the delectable dishes including grilled elk from Chef Love’s own ranch, crispy lamb’s belly, and rattlesnake and rabbit pasta. Pastry Chef Phillip Speer’s dessert included a banana tres leches sphere with liquid nitrogen ice cream. Guests ended the evening with a nightcap round of Love’s signature tequila shots.
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The party is part of St. David’s Foundation’s Toast of the Town, a series of intimate events taking place that raise money for the St. David’s Neal Kocurek Scholarship Fund. Every dollar raised from Toast of the Town is matched twoto-one by the foundation totaling more than $1,000,000 this year. Since 2005, more than 200 students have been awarded scholarships to study health care in more than 30
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Texas colleges and universities. For more information on St. David’s Foundation’s Neal Kocurek Scholarship Fund and Toast of the Town, visit www.stdavidsfoundation.org. Photography by Robert Godwin & Stacey Harrell. 1. Celebrity chef Tim Love cooks up a batch of ramps in the outdoor kitchen. 2. Homeowners Melanie and Charlie Jones. partner with C3 Presents. 3. Philip Speer the Executive Pastry chef and Culinary Director of Uchi and Uchiko, with his assistant prepare a dish with freshly sliced truffles. 4. Neal Kocurek Scholar Jigar Satasia, Julie and Wolfgang Niedert. 5. La Condesa and Sway owner Jesse Herman and Shawn Safir 6. Byron & Mary Darby, Anita Maxwell with her husband Earl the CEO of the St. David’s Foundation. 7. Chef Tim Love serves the main course to guests. A few items included on the platter were Pork Belly, Rocky Mountain Elk Loin and Chili Candied grapes. 8. Charlie Jones kicks off the evening with a toast.
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